Overruling your partner?

[zebraman]

Originally posted by oatmealqueen


Why would an official who doesn't understand this very simple, basic, no-brainer of a rule regarding a backcourt violation, be placed in such a big varsity game with playoff implications?
Just wondering.

What I have seen in my local area is that good veteran officals often tend to get lazy in regards to high school games. They quit going to camps, they stop reading the rule books (especially our college officials who think that they can get by on their "presence" rather than continuing to study the rules and mechanics of NFHS), they get a little lazy in their pregame conferences and they forget coverage areas for 2-person games.

Z