Refs..Your opinion about calling sets (lifts/double contacts)

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[i]Originally posted by South Bay HHVBC

I see what you are sayin but on the other hand, i doubt if a team would think its fun if the other teams setter is allowed to throw up some garbage to his hitters who end up smashing them. Just because the setter isnt good doesnt mean that the rest of his team isnt. Those bad sets not being called can be the determining factor for another team losing. In baseball, its like saying, "we will give the other team a bigger strike zone to throw to so it game will be more even." [/B]

Well, I'm not talking about "throwing up garbage" on the sets but whether you call it "strict" or "loose". Garbage is garbage and ugly is ugly under either a strict or loose standard. I'm talkin' about the "iffy" stuff. And, I'm not talking about a bigger strike zone for -one- team - if the strike zone is widened for one team, it's gotta be widened for both. You gotta try and call it the same way on both sides of the net.

But, quite frankly, I've never seen a match where one team couldn't set worth a damn but could pound those ugly sets down on the ten foot line. Usually, if the setters can't set, the outside hitters can't hit. Maybe if I run across a team with an really bad setter but three absolute HAMMERS at the hitter positions, I might have to reassess my views on this. But mostly the setters seem to set with about the same skills as the hitters seem to hit.

And, you've gotta let the kids play the game. After all, the kids are what the whole thing is about.