No game for me this week, which I am frankly okay with. Three games a weekend for the past 8 weeks. Sometimes I just need to take a break. I'm not physical drained, as much as I am mentally. I notice the most when I White Hat HS games. I'm getting the rules between HS and College mix-up which is becoming very annoying.
It doesn't help when many of these crews I White Hat with are just thrown together and their skill level is less than par. Trying to do my job and then mentor these yahoo's while coaches are screaming they are not making calls - which is true. All I want is a simple, clean, fast game. This rarely happens. And then my confidence gets weakened.
Every season about week seven or eight I begin to lack confidence. I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm pretty confident (pun intended) its due to the number of mistakes I've made. I know I make them -- mostly calls I didn't make but should have. None of these mistakes made a difference in the outcome of the game and most are based upon my own self-critical high standard. Hardly anyone would know. But they are there and I don't forget them until about mid-January.
But maybe its not a lack of confidence and much as it is a weakened spirit.
I think this malaise is partially due to the games being boring. Not as boring as my day-job mind you. And certainly not as boring as watching Oprah. But most of these games are one-sided and pretty much over by halftime. The quality of play is okay I guess, but what I don't see much of is the beauty of the well oiled machine. It's just raw football action with no finesse. As much I love football, this type of play is just not exciting.
The next three weeks, which happen to be the last three weeks of the season, are going to be a pain in the ass. Next week the game is 100+ miles away and does not start until 7:00PM. I won't get home until after midnight for sure. The following week, the game is over 150 miles away. At least this game is at 1:00PM. Which means I'll have to leave the house by around 8:00AM and won't get home until 7:00PM or so. My last game, another 1:00PM start, will be over an hour away.
I'm not complaining. This is still better than my day job.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A Watched Clock Never Runs
Saturday's game took me back to the school where the season started. One thing I failed to mention previously - there is no scoreboard at this college. There are also no bleachers, no press box, no cheerleaders, and no PA system. There is brand new portable game clock everyone seems to be very proud of. Until it stopped working in the 3rd quarter.
This was yet another lopsided game ending 43-28. I mention this because the officials organization I am candidate for wants us to keep games under 3 hours. But with 70+ points scored, and the clock stopped for at least 2 minutes per score, these expectations are bit misplaced. Add the 35 fouls with and average of 30 second clock stoppage per foul and the 'dead' time really adds up. We also had a few injury delays and each team used all their timeouts.
Then the clock stopped running late in the 3rd quarter. We had to stop play three times adding or taking away time before the clock just died. Finally, we ran the time on the field for the remainder of the 3rd. I'm not sure why our White Hat waited so long to this. At the start of the 4th we waited for another 2-3 minutes while the ground crew promised it would be start. It finally did. Again, I don't know why we just didn't start the quarter with the time on the field and adjust the clock when it started early. This whole fiasco burned another 5 minutes.
My performance was on par with my previous games. Once I ran up the wrong sideline following the Try once and on two occasions turned to the wrong sideline to accept a new ball.
I am finding I am not alone with this problem - forgetting which color is offense. I've asked dozens of officials about there experience and they have all said the same thing. It is easy to forget which team is on offense and which direction they are going. For example, on scrimmage kicks, I am constantly have to say to myself "white is going to be stupid". Meaning, if White are the receiving team, they will be the ones doing the blocks in the back or the holding or the 'stupid' stuff. The kickers will often be guilty of personal fouls, but these are easy to catch because they usually are at the end of the play.
I did have any flags this game. The inside was clean and players on both sides were tired and lazy. There was a lot of passing in this game, so the offensive linemen just backed-up and the defenders were too tired to charge hard.
The home team coach complied there were some chop block. What happened was a lineman had fallen to the ground and the center/nose guard tripped over him. Looked really ugly and I don't know how it will look on film, but the act was not deliberate. Just something that happened during the course of the game.
I do think I missed a spearing. This was very late in the 4th quarter at around the 5 yard line. Some kid come in helmet first into the pile so hard hit feet were up in the air. This is an ejectionable act and a big deal. In the 10 milliseconds you have to make a decision, I decided I did not see the entire act. If someone questioned me 'did you see if he was pushed from behind' I could not say yes. There were also the wing and the deep official on that side (we were at the has mark) who had better angles than me, since I was looking inside out. Bottom line is I think we missed a call and I'm sure we will be on the training film next summer.
Overall, I feel I am doing a decent job at this level. I have no real feedback other than White Hat's saying 'good hustle'. I still have a long way to go before I would consider myself a GOOD college umpire. I still have to ask about some of the penalty enforcements (however I do it under the guise of 'confirming'). I should not have to do that.
This was yet another lopsided game ending 43-28. I mention this because the officials organization I am candidate for wants us to keep games under 3 hours. But with 70+ points scored, and the clock stopped for at least 2 minutes per score, these expectations are bit misplaced. Add the 35 fouls with and average of 30 second clock stoppage per foul and the 'dead' time really adds up. We also had a few injury delays and each team used all their timeouts.
Then the clock stopped running late in the 3rd quarter. We had to stop play three times adding or taking away time before the clock just died. Finally, we ran the time on the field for the remainder of the 3rd. I'm not sure why our White Hat waited so long to this. At the start of the 4th we waited for another 2-3 minutes while the ground crew promised it would be start. It finally did. Again, I don't know why we just didn't start the quarter with the time on the field and adjust the clock when it started early. This whole fiasco burned another 5 minutes.
My performance was on par with my previous games. Once I ran up the wrong sideline following the Try once and on two occasions turned to the wrong sideline to accept a new ball.
I am finding I am not alone with this problem - forgetting which color is offense. I've asked dozens of officials about there experience and they have all said the same thing. It is easy to forget which team is on offense and which direction they are going. For example, on scrimmage kicks, I am constantly have to say to myself "white is going to be stupid". Meaning, if White are the receiving team, they will be the ones doing the blocks in the back or the holding or the 'stupid' stuff. The kickers will often be guilty of personal fouls, but these are easy to catch because they usually are at the end of the play.
I did have any flags this game. The inside was clean and players on both sides were tired and lazy. There was a lot of passing in this game, so the offensive linemen just backed-up and the defenders were too tired to charge hard.
The home team coach complied there were some chop block. What happened was a lineman had fallen to the ground and the center/nose guard tripped over him. Looked really ugly and I don't know how it will look on film, but the act was not deliberate. Just something that happened during the course of the game.
I do think I missed a spearing. This was very late in the 4th quarter at around the 5 yard line. Some kid come in helmet first into the pile so hard hit feet were up in the air. This is an ejectionable act and a big deal. In the 10 milliseconds you have to make a decision, I decided I did not see the entire act. If someone questioned me 'did you see if he was pushed from behind' I could not say yes. There were also the wing and the deep official on that side (we were at the has mark) who had better angles than me, since I was looking inside out. Bottom line is I think we missed a call and I'm sure we will be on the training film next summer.
Overall, I feel I am doing a decent job at this level. I have no real feedback other than White Hat's saying 'good hustle'. I still have a long way to go before I would consider myself a GOOD college umpire. I still have to ask about some of the penalty enforcements (however I do it under the guise of 'confirming'). I should not have to do that.
Weekly Update Coming
I haven't been home all weekend, so no time for an entry yet. This weeks game was... come back in a day or two and see.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
This is College Football??
Before this game the crew anticipated a pretty close contest. This was the first week of Conference play, and both squads were 1-4 coming off their first victory. We expected both teams to be hungry for a win. But (you knew there was a but coming) apparently only one team wanted to play. The final score was 55-21 after three hours of misery.
On several levels this was the worse college game I worked so far. First of all, the home team A.D. was nowhere to be found, we had neither a clock operator nor a chain crew until after the coin toss was completed. The chain crew consisted of three females from the Basketball team, one of which had her young child with her. Our White Hat quickly shut that down. Basically, the game started late while all this administrative BS took place.
At halftime the chain crew announced they were not coming back for the second half. Are you kidding! So, we had to find four more people to assist and the second half started late. Oh, what else -- the 25 second clock never started on the kick-offs, the ball boys were in la-la land, we did not have our security escort, and the locker room was not open at halftime or at the end of the game. And remember, this is NCAA, not High School.
As bad as all that was the game itself wasn't any better. The visiting coach was one of these guys who thinks calling a fair game means the fouls should be equally distributed. He was given a Sideline Warning three minutes into the game, so you kinda knew what kind of an ass he was going to be. So, since most of the fouls were against his team, we apparently were not being 'fair'. I didn't get the final count, but there were at least 35 fouls in total and I would guess 25 were against his team. Most of these were Personal Fouls or Unsportsmanlike. These fouls went both ways, as this was really an ugly game, but his team was hit harder because they deserved it. They were just playing dirty. I could have thrown more fouls on his team, but the White Hat asked us to only call 'big' things.
When the visitors finally scored a TD, during the Try, a home team player jumped into the neutral zone and then jumped back before the snap. After the Try, when I have to run up the sideline for the kickoff, the coach was screaming at me that the defender contacted his player when he entered the neutral zone. I politely said, "Coach I did not see contact" and kept running up the field. Now, how he could possibly see what really happened from the sideline 25 yards away is beyond me. What really happened is when the defender entered the neutral zone and his player false started. In that order. But since there was no flag by the wings who really cares. The player who is at the most disadvantage is the defender on his heels not his offensive player. The coach of course questioned how I could not see the contact when it was right in front of me. I learned long ago there is no point discussing these things. I clearly saw what didn't happen. I asked the wings later if they saw contact and they both said, hell no.
Later in the game he actually said, "this is not the PAC-10, why are you guys calling that?". Well, lets see, your man was holding in the end zone and your team scored a TD. Even in High School we would make this call. Now granted, there was 1:30 left in a game that was 55-21, so ya, he has a point. But, a foul is a foul ,and because he had been a prick all night, no cheap scores for you friend.
And just maybe we make these call because we all WANT to get into the PAC-10. It wasn't my flag, but I would have made the same call in that situation.
There is a lot more I could say about this coach, but I save that for WAMO.
Now, to be honest, this was not my best game either. My biggest blunder was not walking off two penalties properly. The first was a half-distance from the 24 yard line. How hard is this. Go to the 12 dumbass. I stopped at the 17. The side judge caught this one so I didn't look like a complete fool. Then we had a spot foul two yards beyond the LOS. I went from the LOS. I had to pick-up the ball and move it. A big time no-no for the Umpire. I'm sure I'll get marked down for that. And I should.
A few times in the first-half I was dwelling on these blunders too much and forgot which side to relay the ball from on a change of posession. No one in the stands will notice this and it won't be on film, but it shows my head is not in the game. Overall, my first-half was terrible and if I was and observer, I would say I did not appear to have control of the game and at times, I appeared confused. I got my act together in the second half and did not make any more stupid mistakes.
I threw three flags -- Roughing the Snapper, Block in the Back, and a False Start.
Luckily I don't have either of these teams again this season,
On several levels this was the worse college game I worked so far. First of all, the home team A.D. was nowhere to be found, we had neither a clock operator nor a chain crew until after the coin toss was completed. The chain crew consisted of three females from the Basketball team, one of which had her young child with her. Our White Hat quickly shut that down. Basically, the game started late while all this administrative BS took place.
At halftime the chain crew announced they were not coming back for the second half. Are you kidding! So, we had to find four more people to assist and the second half started late. Oh, what else -- the 25 second clock never started on the kick-offs, the ball boys were in la-la land, we did not have our security escort, and the locker room was not open at halftime or at the end of the game. And remember, this is NCAA, not High School.
As bad as all that was the game itself wasn't any better. The visiting coach was one of these guys who thinks calling a fair game means the fouls should be equally distributed. He was given a Sideline Warning three minutes into the game, so you kinda knew what kind of an ass he was going to be. So, since most of the fouls were against his team, we apparently were not being 'fair'. I didn't get the final count, but there were at least 35 fouls in total and I would guess 25 were against his team. Most of these were Personal Fouls or Unsportsmanlike. These fouls went both ways, as this was really an ugly game, but his team was hit harder because they deserved it. They were just playing dirty. I could have thrown more fouls on his team, but the White Hat asked us to only call 'big' things.
When the visitors finally scored a TD, during the Try, a home team player jumped into the neutral zone and then jumped back before the snap. After the Try, when I have to run up the sideline for the kickoff, the coach was screaming at me that the defender contacted his player when he entered the neutral zone. I politely said, "Coach I did not see contact" and kept running up the field. Now, how he could possibly see what really happened from the sideline 25 yards away is beyond me. What really happened is when the defender entered the neutral zone and his player false started. In that order. But since there was no flag by the wings who really cares. The player who is at the most disadvantage is the defender on his heels not his offensive player. The coach of course questioned how I could not see the contact when it was right in front of me. I learned long ago there is no point discussing these things. I clearly saw what didn't happen. I asked the wings later if they saw contact and they both said, hell no.
Later in the game he actually said, "this is not the PAC-10, why are you guys calling that?". Well, lets see, your man was holding in the end zone and your team scored a TD. Even in High School we would make this call. Now granted, there was 1:30 left in a game that was 55-21, so ya, he has a point. But, a foul is a foul ,and because he had been a prick all night, no cheap scores for you friend.
And just maybe we make these call because we all WANT to get into the PAC-10. It wasn't my flag, but I would have made the same call in that situation.
There is a lot more I could say about this coach, but I save that for WAMO.
Now, to be honest, this was not my best game either. My biggest blunder was not walking off two penalties properly. The first was a half-distance from the 24 yard line. How hard is this. Go to the 12 dumbass. I stopped at the 17. The side judge caught this one so I didn't look like a complete fool. Then we had a spot foul two yards beyond the LOS. I went from the LOS. I had to pick-up the ball and move it. A big time no-no for the Umpire. I'm sure I'll get marked down for that. And I should.
A few times in the first-half I was dwelling on these blunders too much and forgot which side to relay the ball from on a change of posession. No one in the stands will notice this and it won't be on film, but it shows my head is not in the game. Overall, my first-half was terrible and if I was and observer, I would say I did not appear to have control of the game and at times, I appeared confused. I got my act together in the second half and did not make any more stupid mistakes.
I threw three flags -- Roughing the Snapper, Block in the Back, and a False Start.
Luckily I don't have either of these teams again this season,
Sunday, September 30, 2007
A Rough Game - Part 1
Last night's game was another blow-out 45-0, but we finished in under three hours. We threw twenty penalties. Which I still find difficult to believe is less than the average of 24 per game. Even 20 seems like a lot to me. One of the crews this season had 39 fouls. If you have 120 plays a game, how can 1/3 of the plays have fouls? Somethings not right.
Speaking of fouls, I threw three flags - dead ball personal foul against a defenseless player, roughing the snapper during a scrimmage kick, and a chop block.
The personal foul was easy. It was right in front of me and after the whistle.
The roughing the snapper was easy too - he ran right-up the middle of the long snappers head and knocked him on is ass. But, I screwed this up. I did not get the number of the player who roughed the snapper.
This was a bonehead mistake on my part since I'm looking right at the guy. The simple fact was I got caught-up in the play and didn't look at the number. What I should have done is made a mental note of the number before the ball was snapped. I saw him line up directly over the snapper and the idea of him roughing entered my mind. Then, when I saw him make helmet-to-helmet contact, I completely forgot about his number and began considering whether this should be an ejectionable foul. By the time I collected my thoughts, I forgot all about the number.
What made this play even more interesting is there were three unrelated flags, all on 'B', during this down. Since mine was 15 yards and auto first down, 'A' obviously accepted this one.
The chop block - I may have missed one earlier in the game. The one I missed, I think was with the center blocking high and then a non-adjacent linemen (the tackle) came low. This was on a sweep to my right and I keyed on the pulling guard focusing on the point of attack. The tackle went to my left away from the ball. It caught my attention, but not until after the block occurred. I really don't know if it was a chop or not.
But I caught them second time.
Enough for now. I blog more about this game later in the week.
Speaking of fouls, I threw three flags - dead ball personal foul against a defenseless player, roughing the snapper during a scrimmage kick, and a chop block.
The personal foul was easy. It was right in front of me and after the whistle.
The roughing the snapper was easy too - he ran right-up the middle of the long snappers head and knocked him on is ass. But, I screwed this up. I did not get the number of the player who roughed the snapper.
This was a bonehead mistake on my part since I'm looking right at the guy. The simple fact was I got caught-up in the play and didn't look at the number. What I should have done is made a mental note of the number before the ball was snapped. I saw him line up directly over the snapper and the idea of him roughing entered my mind. Then, when I saw him make helmet-to-helmet contact, I completely forgot about his number and began considering whether this should be an ejectionable foul. By the time I collected my thoughts, I forgot all about the number.
What made this play even more interesting is there were three unrelated flags, all on 'B', during this down. Since mine was 15 yards and auto first down, 'A' obviously accepted this one.
The chop block - I may have missed one earlier in the game. The one I missed, I think was with the center blocking high and then a non-adjacent linemen (the tackle) came low. This was on a sweep to my right and I keyed on the pulling guard focusing on the point of attack. The tackle went to my left away from the ball. It caught my attention, but not until after the block occurred. I really don't know if it was a chop or not.
But I caught them second time.
Enough for now. I blog more about this game later in the week.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
One Down, Six to Go
Well, successfully completed my second college game. This score-fest ended 54-32.
Both wing officials and the Side Judge were from my local area and I've worked many high school games with these three officials. Whether real or imagined, I felt the eyes of scrutiny would be more severe during this game than my first game last week. At this stage, I think it's almost easier working with guys you don't know.
I had never met the White Hat. This always make the pre-game a bit strange. The Referee and Umpire have a unique relationship. There is a lot of give-and-take as far as how the game will be run. As I gain more confidence at this level, I can see where I will soon be saying something along the lines of 'this is how I plan on doing X' and the WH can override me if he wishes. Right now, I'm taking the approach of 'how would you prefer me to do X'. In some cases the WH asks me what I would like and then we go with my preference. Clearly, you need to able to adjust to the crew you are working with.
Although the WH is the boss, I have control over most of the game adminstration - how fast the ball gets set, relay the ball from the sideline, marching off penalties, doublchecking the ref does not do anything foolish, confirming with the Linesman on penalities, digging for fumbles, often helping on short passes over the middle, etc.
I only made two mistakes I am aware of. The big one was on a long punt where we had two live ball fouls and did a re-kick down back around the 10. I put the ball on the wrong hash mark. My down indicator indicated the left hash, but I put the ball on the right hash. On some plays where a lot of things happening, the balls gets rushed in, the WH rushes the 'ready', some players asks me a question, etc I may forget to reset my marker. I second guessed myself when I reset the ball. I was wrong and should trust my ball marker next time or ask for help.
The second one was minor. On a change of possession a ball was marked on sideline. When placing the ball on the field, because players were blocking my view, I used cross-field mechanics to put the ball down. But, when the ball marked on the field I should have used the ball and not cross-field. Make sense to me and easy to fix going forward.
The White Hat told me more that once I showed 'good hustle' and I made his job easy during the game. I never told him I was a Candidate and this was only my second college game. I take this a compliment.
Both wing officials and the Side Judge were from my local area and I've worked many high school games with these three officials. Whether real or imagined, I felt the eyes of scrutiny would be more severe during this game than my first game last week. At this stage, I think it's almost easier working with guys you don't know.
I had never met the White Hat. This always make the pre-game a bit strange. The Referee and Umpire have a unique relationship. There is a lot of give-and-take as far as how the game will be run. As I gain more confidence at this level, I can see where I will soon be saying something along the lines of 'this is how I plan on doing X' and the WH can override me if he wishes. Right now, I'm taking the approach of 'how would you prefer me to do X'. In some cases the WH asks me what I would like and then we go with my preference. Clearly, you need to able to adjust to the crew you are working with.
Although the WH is the boss, I have control over most of the game adminstration - how fast the ball gets set, relay the ball from the sideline, marching off penalties, doublchecking the ref does not do anything foolish, confirming with the Linesman on penalities, digging for fumbles, often helping on short passes over the middle, etc.
I only made two mistakes I am aware of. The big one was on a long punt where we had two live ball fouls and did a re-kick down back around the 10. I put the ball on the wrong hash mark. My down indicator indicated the left hash, but I put the ball on the right hash. On some plays where a lot of things happening, the balls gets rushed in, the WH rushes the 'ready', some players asks me a question, etc I may forget to reset my marker. I second guessed myself when I reset the ball. I was wrong and should trust my ball marker next time or ask for help.
The second one was minor. On a change of possession a ball was marked on sideline. When placing the ball on the field, because players were blocking my view, I used cross-field mechanics to put the ball down. But, when the ball marked on the field I should have used the ball and not cross-field. Make sense to me and easy to fix going forward.
The White Hat told me more that once I showed 'good hustle' and I made his job easy during the game. I never told him I was a Candidate and this was only my second college game. I take this a compliment.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Losing my Virginity
Well I lost my college football virginity yesterday. It was a lot like losing the other kind of virginity. A lot of anticipation ending in an anti-climatic malaise... but this doesn't stop you from wanting more and more of it.
I was hoping to have some real juicy news about my first real game as a college official. I'm somewhat disappointed to report the game was actually pretty easy and I only made a few minor mistakes. There were five penalties and only two were live ball - illegal formation and a DPI. Although this contest was not a real test of my abilities, there is still a story to the game.
First, College games are long... the first quarter lasted 43 minutes! Both teams thought they could pass - they couldn't... and shouldn't.
Next, I was not the only rookie official. Our Linesperson (who was female) was also a rookie. She actually did a very good job. This was only the second game for the Field Judge. With only two vets on the crew, my expectations were low. Turns out, we did a great job.
One area that really slowed the game down was the ball mechanics. On almost every change of possession or long pass out of bounds, I had to call for a new ball when it should have been shuttled in immediately. This was partly due to the lack of experience of the wings, but mostly the ball boy on each side of the field was not paying attention. It often took 5-10 seconds to get the ball in. Multiply this times 25 change of possessions and it adds up.
I did throw one flag - ineligible receiver down field. Number 77 ran past me as I went to the LOS, then I saw the QB dump the pass to someone in the flats. I had not reached the LOS when the receiver, who was parallel with me, caught the ball. Number 77 was definitely past the expanded neutral zone, but the receiver was probably within it - more or less. We decided to waive it off, however the White Hat said it was a good flag, and should the same thing happen again, throw the flag. It is always better to throw a flag and wave it off than to let something go you should have called.
The game was tied at the end of regulation, so we went into overtime. The team that ultimately lost had a chance to win the game with a 34 yard field goal with 10 seconds remaining. Of course, they missed. My first college game and it goes into OT. At this point we were over 3 hours into this thing. It was hot, tired, and just wanted to get off the field.
As a crew, we screwed up the OT by carrying over the unused timeouts. Both teams had unused, so this was a tragic mistake. Carrying over is a HS rule, not a college rule. All six of us can be blamed for this blunder. The visiting coach even called us on it. His team ended up winning, so no real harm done. Our White Hat sent an email later that night saying we made a mistake.
That's it for my first real game. I wish there was more dirt on me screwing this all up.
Next weeks game is unfortunately with one these same teams. It always sucks working the same team two weeks in a row.
I was hoping to have some real juicy news about my first real game as a college official. I'm somewhat disappointed to report the game was actually pretty easy and I only made a few minor mistakes. There were five penalties and only two were live ball - illegal formation and a DPI. Although this contest was not a real test of my abilities, there is still a story to the game.
First, College games are long... the first quarter lasted 43 minutes! Both teams thought they could pass - they couldn't... and shouldn't.
Next, I was not the only rookie official. Our Linesperson (who was female) was also a rookie. She actually did a very good job. This was only the second game for the Field Judge. With only two vets on the crew, my expectations were low. Turns out, we did a great job.
One area that really slowed the game down was the ball mechanics. On almost every change of possession or long pass out of bounds, I had to call for a new ball when it should have been shuttled in immediately. This was partly due to the lack of experience of the wings, but mostly the ball boy on each side of the field was not paying attention. It often took 5-10 seconds to get the ball in. Multiply this times 25 change of possessions and it adds up.
I did throw one flag - ineligible receiver down field. Number 77 ran past me as I went to the LOS, then I saw the QB dump the pass to someone in the flats. I had not reached the LOS when the receiver, who was parallel with me, caught the ball. Number 77 was definitely past the expanded neutral zone, but the receiver was probably within it - more or less. We decided to waive it off, however the White Hat said it was a good flag, and should the same thing happen again, throw the flag. It is always better to throw a flag and wave it off than to let something go you should have called.
The game was tied at the end of regulation, so we went into overtime. The team that ultimately lost had a chance to win the game with a 34 yard field goal with 10 seconds remaining. Of course, they missed. My first college game and it goes into OT. At this point we were over 3 hours into this thing. It was hot, tired, and just wanted to get off the field.
As a crew, we screwed up the OT by carrying over the unused timeouts. Both teams had unused, so this was a tragic mistake. Carrying over is a HS rule, not a college rule. All six of us can be blamed for this blunder. The visiting coach even called us on it. His team ended up winning, so no real harm done. Our White Hat sent an email later that night saying we made a mistake.
That's it for my first real game. I wish there was more dirt on me screwing this all up.
Next weeks game is unfortunately with one these same teams. It always sucks working the same team two weeks in a row.
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