Travel or Not?

[APG]

Originally Posted by just another ref

The question was whether this philosophy ever leads to you passing on calls which are said to be obvious by others, or if it happens but you don't consider that to be a problem.

Not sure why that is hard to understand.

I'm not sure I understand what your question is or what the confusion is. Call the obvious (with the standard of "obvious" being set by those that matter). Doesn't mean one won't pass on a call that ends up being flat wrong and is obvious on tape...happens at all levels. Now if you're working at a high enough level, it shouldn't be happening often or you probably won't be working that level for too long.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by APG

I'm not sure I understand what your question is or what the confusion is. Call the obvious (with the standard of "obvious" being set by those that matter). Doesn't mean one won't pass on a call that ends up being flat wrong and is obvious on tape...happens at all levels. Now if you're working at a high enough level, it shouldn't be happening often or you probably won't be working that level for too long.

Rut was stressing to call what is obvious and not make marginal/phantom calls which will be proved wrong by tape. I think we're all comfortable with that idea. I asked if he felt that he never missed obvious calls that did show up on the tape or if he just felt that this was less of a problem when it happened. As is often the case, he never answered.

[Raymond]

I understand "calling the obvious". And I understand not making a whole bunch of calls that only one official seems to see all the time.

What I don't understand is how officials will say that a call is wrong b/c they had to slow down the tape to see it. If you slow down the tape and the call is correct, then good for that official for seeing it in real time. If you slow down the tape and the call is wrong, then the official needs to put that in his memory bank and use it as a teaching tool.