What makes a good Official?

[oldrunner]

What does everybody think?

I like a game where you hardly notice the officials. The calls that need to be made are, the game flows, and neither team has an unfair advantage.

The best officials have the smallest egos. They don't strut around and behave like the crowd is there to see them strut their stuff. A good ref is compassionate about the players and their safety. A good ref will communicate calmly with players and coaches and smile at them once in a while. A good ref will not always assume they are right and will ask for assistance from their team mates. A good ref is slow with his/her whistle. A good ref puts his/her self in position to see play as it happens. A good ref does not try to call things they are screened from or do not see. If not sure of a call, a good ref does not blow the whistle. A good ref does not go searching for something to call.

 

[Tomcat]

A bad ref is a reactionary ref one that thinks there is always an and 1 like we saw at sac st.a bad ref is one who changes the flow of a game like our last home stand.a bad ref is one who changes the outcome of a game (most montana games) :-D

 

[sacstateman]

A bad ref is a reactionary ref one that thinks there is always an and 1 like we saw at sac st.a bad ref is one who changes the flow of a game like our last home stand.a bad ref is one who changes the outcome of a game (most montana games) :-D

While I agree with most of olds points, Tomcat's remark about the and 1's made me go back thru the play by play, 3 and 1's for Sac St and 3 and 1's for Weber....the last part of Tomcat's statement about changing the outcome cannot always be true as sometimes there are violations that have to be called at the end of games that end up changing the outcome....if what you are talking about is a ref who LOOKS for some violation that would normally be ignored, then I guess I agree with that part....but if you don't make the call at the end, that can effect the outcome as much as making a bad call at the end....catch 22....

 

[Tomcat]

As far as the and 1 calls I didn't mean for or against either team,there just seemed to be a few called that caught my angerment.For the refs in general I think the flow of games the momentum and the outcome of some has indeed been altered at times,not just in basketball but it is hard to watch both college and pro football anymore for that fact.I just think that there is more to it all.Call me a consiracy theorist.

 

[sacstateman]

CONSPIRACY THEORIST!!!!

 

[Tomcat]

Sorry

 

[WILDCAT]

The Ref who fell for Gregory's flop in the Big Sky tourney last year in Missoula = Bad Ref