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I know that a refs job is harder than it looks and we all think we could call a game from the bleachers, but is it just me or are most refs just horrible. I dont go to a whole lot of high school basketball games, but the ones I do go to it seems like the officiating is just horrible. When I was in high school I dont remember it being like this. It's like they don't even know the rules of the game anymore. For example, last night at the 15th region tourney, between both games I would say there was 25 or 30 traveling violations called, or more. There may have been 4 or 5 that was actually traveling. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just crazy?

I first want to say if 30 traveling calls were made, I'm sure more than just 5 was traveling. That is alot of missed calls and for the games I have seen the travel is least called than all. (without the 3 second call)

Here is the problem; I may call the hand check, you may call traveling, and our partner may call a little bump. I think all officials have their own little violation or foul they watch for more than others. For example; I have seen alot of 12th and 13th region games this year; in the 12th they don't know what a hand check is heck they don't even know what a hold is. In the 13th I have seen alot of no calls on a block/charge and some games you would see some travels and others you would have a travel every other play. So thats where the problem lies, everyone looks for different things.