Close from the lead on routine foul?

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Tell that to the guys doing the conference tourney games tonight. I still see a lot of bird dogging out there.

Granted the simultanious fist/bird dog is a thing of the past, I still see some form of point in most TV game calls.

Perhaps the fact that these guys avg. age seems to be in the 50's at least means that they feel some obligation to ID the person they just tagged with a foul.

Maybe the younger guys don't bird dog as much. I for one, don't understand the deep anti-BD feeling that you guys- as well as many of the officials in my association(s) seem to feel.

I get the idea that they look down at it as a "high school" mechanic. Which is strange, since that is exactly what most of us are.