Comments on: NCS officiating

By: basketballfan

basketballfan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:02:28 +0000

Mark, I liked your articles about your officiating and comments, but beware of Bill Vegas. He probably will make bad comments on your grammar and tell you how foolish you look to thousand of readers who read these blogs. He has nothing better to do than try to put good people down like you and me. We are human and we do make spelling mistakes. He hammered a recent article written about some girls from Washington, just because of some improperly used grammar, like there, rather than their or team mates, rather than teammates. You are right when you say it is education first and sports second. Have a nice day.

By: Mark E Fischer

Mark E Fischer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:15:16 +0000

Queenbee, You do understand that most referee’s are their so the game is still a game, My main goal as an official is that the player have a great social interaction with others, I was anEast Oakland kid and I remeber in the 70′s when all varsity OAL games where played with out fans at Laney, which was to me great loss for families. But I will aways serve the best Ican for the kids, Please enjoy your kids along as youcan.

By: queenbee

queenbee — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:05:23 +0000

Mark, I don’t think anyone’s arguing that 3 officials are bad or that officiating causes a kid to lose their scholarship. The problem is if you go from a season largely played with 2 refs, then MVALs with 3, then back to 2 for the quarter final and then 3 for the semi (or something like that). Just because one team is often near the top and has this experience doesn’t change the fact that the number 1 quality of good reffing (imo) is consistency – and not just individual reffing but the overall reffing picture.

We know refs aren’t purposely missing calls (whatever the idiots in the stands say) or that strong academics are a good thing. But I understand how all the negative feedback and the culture of slamming the refs (vs. the players or the coaches – all making mistakes [& fans making mistakes too!]) could put a chip on your shoulder.

By: Mark E Fischer

Mark E Fischer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:14:06 +0000

3 officials would make allvarsity games better, more or less foul calls, their are better calls across the board. More, no the foul call’s are more to the play action, if parents learn the rules and remember first that this is a game, if they execpt us to call a game because tommy or mary is looking for a scholarship first think of a academic scholarship first and pass the ACT and SAT tests first, sports are secondary in life, education is primary, I turn wrench’s for a REAL living and my kid’s are both at CAL STATE, so my best wish’s to all players it that it is a game not life, 1 in 10,000 make it to the NBA/WNBA so life will go on, I still love officiating basketball , but it is not the NBA, so I have accepted my level, so should they.

By: Mark E Fischer

Mark E Fischer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:39:40 +0000

Prep Basketball today is so fat that the game warrant three officials at the Varsity level, why did the NBA and NCAA go to three officials those games needed the best game from the players and not the cheaters, which is the same value we want to give the High school players, we train with college officials and and hope we can move to the next level someday, but yes the games need 3 officials for a better game for all. The cost was shared by our association to show the schools we do care about a better game for the strong matchups. Deer Valley has seen this for at least 3 years and their Wect Coast Jambree was officiated this way so we get training and the player get the best calls possible. I have worked for both EBBOA and CCBOA we as officials want to give the kids a good game and we try very hard.

By: Kyle Bonagura

Kyle Bonagura — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:32:25 +0000

Mark what are your thoughts on having two vs three officials during a game? Would you concur that more fouls are called when there are three and the game changes?

By: Mark E Fischer

Mark E Fischer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:09:12 +0000

I have officiated for 30+ years and we do have good and bad day’s. I have always tried to give my all to the kids, but you will always have the parent friction.
One the majority of the remeber the rules back when they played , the rules have gone better and the parents need to read the rules or even come out and officiate a game or 2, then we can watch you and asked you why you missed that travel or a 3 second call.

By: queenbee

queenbee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:31:24 +0000

Thanks for the responses all. It really was something how they came back (& led!). I thought rebounding was also a weakness.

What a way for Woodrow to end her high school career – unfortunate. But looking forward to hearing about her (& Carbonel’s) college career.

By: Kyle Bonagura

Kyle Bonagura — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:05:26 +0000

Queenbee- I don’t think anything necesarily went wrong. They took the top-seeded team to overtime on the road, despite losing a senior starter to grades, having to fight foul trouble, losing Woodrow with 2 mins left and they came back from a 9-point deficit in the first half, then a 5-point deficit with under a minute to play.

AND, as you know, that game still could have gone either way.

But, because you asked, I’d have to say that poor free throw shooting probably was the thing they couldn’t overcome. Deer Valley gave them a lot of chances by being even worse at the line, but Washington shot below 50% — which isn’t like that team.

By: queenbee

queenbee — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:41:17 +0000

Not sure where this question belongs: 4 of the 5 writers/bloggers picked Washington over DV. What do you think went wrong for Washington?