Season turning around, might be “getting there.”

[Rich]

Originally Posted by The Rooster

I agree and that's why I had a hard time accepting what he was saying about the foul count. I felt like the fouls my partner and I were getting was keeping us out of a fighting situation. I guess he saw it differently. I also had an observer get on me because I wasn't enforcing the shirts being tucked when I had already given a flagrant foul.

My main point is that I'm kinda getting out of what was a comfort zone and letting 'em play through more, which may be bearing fruit.

I won't argue with that -- one of the phases of officiating is "calling everything" which usually follows "calling nothing." It's getting past those two phases and then learning to make quick judgments of which to call and which not to call that's the next step. From there's it's just trying to improve upon that, which will last the rest of your career.

[Rooster]

Originally Posted by Rich

From there's it's just trying to improve upon that, which will last the rest of your career.

I think this is the hook buried inside my cheek.

I tell people it's like surfing on a waterfall. Officials are the only ones who seem to know what I'm talking about.

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by Rich

I won't argue with that -- one of the phases of officiating is "calling everything" which usually follows "calling nothing." It's getting past those two phases and then learning to make quick judgments of which to call and which not to call that's the next step. From there's it's just trying to improve upon that, which will last the rest of your career.

For me it was call nothing for the first couple of games, then moved into call everything, then back to call nothing and now after about 25 games I'm comfortably in the call what should be called with occasional call a bit too much or not enough mixed in.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Moosie74

and now after about 25 games I'm comfortably in the call what should be called

That's about 10 times (SWAG) faster than average.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

That's about 10 times (SWAG) faster than average.

I'm with you, Bob.

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Let's see ....looking at my games reffed log....240 games ....yep 250 seems about right. In only 10 more games I will be calling what should be called.

[maven]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

That's about 10 times (SWAG) faster than average.

Had to look that one up. Here are my favorite 10 meanings from acronymfinder.com:

Scientific Wild Åss Guess
Semantic Web Agreement Group
Stolen Without A Gun
Studies in Women and Gender
Souvenirs, Wearables And Gifts
Sold Without A Guarantee
Sour Water And Gas
Southern Women Aging Gracefully
Sleeping with a Ginger
Secretly We Are Gay

I'm pretty sure I know which one Bob had in mind.

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

That's about 10 times (SWAG) faster than average.

I mean that I am at the point where I can call a foul because there was a foul, not because there was contact so their must be a foul.

My game is far from perfect and I do need a lot of work but I'm just at that point where can call something based on what happened as opposed to what I think happened.