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Old Mon Nov 10, 2008, 07:26am
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You might consider Reddings a training manual, though it doesn't have an exact parallel in baseball.
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Old Mon Nov 10, 2008, 09:57am
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You might consider Reddings a training manual, though it doesn't have an exact parallel in baseball.
Thanks I will check it out.
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Old Mon Nov 10, 2008, 05:18pm
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I do think this is an area, that could be explored and improved.

I do think there are many areas of the country that don't have good or any training for the younger officials. Without proper training officials get frustrated and disenchanted and end up giving it up. Or develope bad habits or wrong fundamentals.

I have had conversations with other refs about rules and ended up with different answers from each. Go back read the rules and understand how each could come up with their answer. Then try to find what is the correct answer and find no guidance, other than other officials opinions.

I've heard coaches tell me they can do this one week and not the next. I think more guidance, training, and knowlege resources would be very helpful.
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Old Mon Nov 10, 2008, 08:07pm
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You might consider Reddings a training manual, though it doesn't have an exact parallel in baseball.
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Thanks I will check it out.
Reddings is a rules study book. The PBUC red book and blue book are mechanics along with pretty much everything else you could need to know such as what time to arrive at the stadium to the process to signal substitutions to the scorer. The thing is, PBUC writes the books for use by their umpires, there is no equivalent to PBUC in football officiating so there aren't any training materials. I would think the NFL would have a comparable book, but as far as I know it is not available to the public if there indeed is one.
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I would think the NFL would have a comparable book, but as far as I know it is not available to the public if there indeed is one.
That would be nice if they had one huh?
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Old Tue Nov 11, 2008, 09:58am
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These are recommendations that should be

addressed to USA Football as they seem interested in improving the game from all facets.

The Fed is, sadly, slow in developing tools and resources.

I know that one of the USA-FB guys is a contributor to one of the other boards and they a USA Football section on that board. Might be a good place to suggest it.
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