Louisville @ ND, Rich's video request #s 3 & 4

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Originally Posted by VaTerp

All of these traveling videos make me think about a question that is on my association's website.

What is the most difficult call to get right:

Block/Charge
Traveling
Handcheck
Goaltend
Technical
Out of Bounds

I think the answer is traveling by a landside. Particularly at higher levels where guys are so fast, athletic, and very skilled in terms of when they gather the ball and subsequent moves.

Add in that you often have to adjust your sight level to pick up the pivot foot and IMO it is the most difficult call in basketball to get consistently right. There is often room for debate even after watching on replay and in slow motion several times.

Play #1 is ignored almost all the time at almost all levels, and rightfully so IMO. Play #2 is a travel that they should get.

I think they all can be hard based on the speed of the game.

Having been fortunate to work both NCAA & HS games, my observation in HS games is that many officials call travels on plays that are marginal at best or are legal but just look awkward. This puts a crew in a bad situation if it is a bad call because now a similarly marginal call will be expected on the same play on the other end. An old-time D1 guy used to say he would much rather miss a travel than call one that wasn't.