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Football Officiating => Texas Topics => Topic started by: HoustonRef on December 12, 2019, 08:28:05 PM
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So the Houston Chapter started getting college officials to grade our games. Are other chapters doing something similar?
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For a number of years, now, the South Plains Chapter has had D2, FBS (active and retired) and NFL officials reviewing selected games and preparing training videos for the Chapter, both during the season, and during the off-season.
Additionally, any crew that requests a complete review of any (or all) of their games, will get it.
If this isn’t happening everywhere, it needs to be.
Robert
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We do a complete game review of every game each week. From those we publish a weekly training video along with an online video quiz.
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So the Houston Chapter started getting college officials to grade our games. Are other chapters doing something similar?
Some grade, so just review for the chapter and the crew. Why not take advantage of experience and knowledge of others to get better at what you do?
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To be clear, we only review and comment - we don't "grade." We let them know what they did well, things they can do better, and the things they simply did wrong, for the sole purpose of improvement. And that applies to rules and prescribed mechanics.
Arguably, grading is somewhat necessary for NCAA staffs (because the Coordinator has to have something objective to report to his Commissioner, when necessary). But, the way grading is (or has been) done and used by some - not all - organizations has only served to demoralize the staffs, and get them worrying about grades more than working the games effectively.
Even the smaller TASO chapters have more officials than most FBS staffs, which would make grading a gargantuan task for a TASO chapter, with uncertain benefit.
Let's use video - and "in person" - evaluations to help our guys get better. If we can leave politics and "buddy" favoritism out of the equation, the guys that want to get better will listen, get better, and rise to the top. Others that just occupy space will not. Our task is to teach and train our guys in the truly right ways to do things, and then recognize and reward those guys that pay attention and consistently employ those skills on the field.
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San Antonio is getting live and video reviews. Not every game but there is a good plan in place.
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In Houston during the season they were only reviewing or grading penalties. During the playoffs they started reviewing the entire game. Either way I think it is a tremendous success and an awesome tool.
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All chapters should utilizes this tool with how games can be easily accessed these days.
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They may want to review the game they worked Friday. Wagner v. Shadow Creek. They took went from 2nd to 4th down on a intentional grounding enforcement.
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They may want to review the game they worked Friday. Wagner v. Shadow Creek. They took went from 2nd to 4th down on a intentional grounding enforcement.
This crew had a tough weekend between this one and the easily seen, obvious fumble. The Houston Chapter review process is in year one so adjustments will need to be made but would interesting to see the crew’s accuracy be listed next to their name.
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There but for the grace of God go I. And all of us.
Be humble and kind.
Robert
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aWaRd THIS POST. aWaRd
There but for the grace of God go I. And all of us.
Be humble and kind.
Robert
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Sometimes it is the brain processing what you think you saw versus what you actually saw. I sure all of us have seen a game film of a call/ no call we made and say, we blew it!