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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4834161, member: 1414"]
1. Consider whether the contact is incidental or impactful.  Big East refs tend to call too many fouls on soft touch contact that doesn’t even impact the player fouled. At the same time they let a lot of clutching, grabbing, hip checks and hard physical defense go uncalled, and it has a major impact. 
2.  Treat similar contact the same throughput the game. Ideally, also game to game. 
3. it’s not about you. Put your ego away. If we know your name as a ref, you are probably a crappy ref.

Example of #1. If a team drives and its player loses the ball out bounds after the defense converges.  Maybe the player just lost it. Maybe he got stripped (50% should be out on the D) but the most common thing is that he got fouled. Guys swiping at the ball get arms  more than they get the ball. So when UConn does it like 10 times in a half and zero fouls are called, you’re letting impactful fouls go. Some refs hedge, by saying out on the D when it really wasn’t and not calling the foul. Better, but I think these hack away teams need to have guys fouling out with 10 minutes to play.
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