Kentucky officials instructed to "tighten up" the game

[Rich]

In some of our smaller conferences, the coaches clearly think we should call every last bit of contact and suck the life out of the game.

Most girls coaches, even in our bigger school conferences also feel that way.

I/we am/are simply not going to officiate to those coaches' expectations. I wasn't hired to officiate a free throw shooting contest.

Officials are human and I work hard to get the balance right, but I see examples of games where it's called too tightly (the JV game I watched last night had over 60 fouls and caused us to start 30 minutes late -- I counted at least 10 fouls in the second and third quarter that were not fouls, in my judgment) and too loosely. Until there's ample video where someone says, "This is a foul. Call this," nobody learns from an article like this.