Situational Officiating

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I think you need to be extra alert for sportsmanship issues during a rivalry game.

Right on...these "types of games" can get a little rougher. Many times the players know each other and there could be issues from the past.

[ref3808]

Perhaps, but it was a well played game to that point with nothing out of the ordinary going on and, without putting too much emphasis on this, it was a JV game. I could see where the varsity game later on might have a little more emotion surrounding it but not the sub varsity.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ref3808

“Arguments derived from probabilities are idle” -Plato

Plato's peculiar obsession for deductive validity does not bear admiration: it would rule out virtually all of natural and social science, and undermine the justification of almost everything we think we know about the universe.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Plato's peculiar obsession for deductive validity does not bear admiration: it would rule out virtually all of natural and social science, and undermine the justification of almost everything we think we know about the universe.

Just exactly what language are you speaking? I'm getting a headache trying to figure out what you're trying to say.

And what does Play-Doh have to do with basketball?

[KJUmp]

Originally Posted by ref3808

Perhaps, but it was a well played game to that point with nothing out of the ordinary going on and, without putting too much emphasis on this, it was a JV game. I could see where the varsity game later on might have a little more emotion surrounding it but not the sub varsity.

FWIW....
Earlier this season in a BJV game a HC mentioned it being a rivalry game when he felt an IF should have been called. His point was (and in thinking back on it later I thought it had some merit) that often "stuff" that goes on in the JV game carries over to the varsity game. Varsity is sitting in the stands watching the game, certain JV players from both teams also dressing for varsity, fans and students from both schools caught up in the importance of winning both games etc., etc.