Rules B&W

[txrefcshou]

Do you consider the rules black and white or do you consider the level, score, time, ability, and other factors in your officiating.

[JasonTX]

You might add to it Advantage / Disadvantage.

[txrefcshou]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

You might add to it Advantage / Disadvantage.

I was putting that in with ect.

[schmitty1973]

You also forgot Weather

[JRutledge]

How about common sense? There are not enough answers in this poll. Also the poll is too broad anyway. Some rules you call without consideration of anything (safety fouls for example) and other rules you make sure it is there all the way like a holding or DPI call.

Peace

[MJT]

I'd say "everything into consideration" covers all the above "how about" and "adds".
One lower level official I work with is the only one I know who I could see answering "black and white" and he drives players, coaches, and other officials all crazy with the number of flags he throws.

[buckrog64]

besides weather and etc., you forgot to put in things like point spread, over/under, and so on....ouch!

you want to call everything b/w at a jr. high game? I had some kids get all excited because a chin strap was loose during the game; they had lost track of how many times they jumped a tiny bit early before the snap and how many times we let it go. Talking usually works wonders at that level. Friday night? That's a bit different.

[Jaysef]

...however, a lopsided score should be left out of the equation...as I posted in a previous thread, score should not influence the way we officiate...safety is our main objective, not which team we presume is getting the shaft.

[txrefcshou]

Originally Posted by Jaysef

...however, a lopsided score should be left out of the equation...as I posted in a previous thread, score should not influence the way we officiate...safety is our main objective, not which team we presume is getting the shaft.

I somewhat disagree about not taking score into consideration. I think that many fouls have no bearing on safety and I have many times in a lopsided let them go, especially on the team that is getting killed.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by txrefcshou

I somewhat disagree about not taking score into consideration. I think that many fouls have no bearing on safety and I have many times in a lopsided let them go, especially on the team that is getting killed.

I agree, especially at lower levels. Say you have an 8th grade game, Team A losing 40-0 in the fourth quarter, and your RB leans forward just before the snap, or the WR moves forward in response to HL's "Here's your line" and is set for only half a second before the ball is snap. You going to call that?