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3) A player/coach can do a great job and lose! Happens all the time. Officials who do a lousy job can affect outcomes.
Sadly, THAT happens all-too-often in ALL high school sports in SC.



An official can do a great job and still impact the outcome of a game too, and it happens in all sports all the time. Every Ref will make "bad" calls in just about every game, they can not see everything all the time. A fan in the stands can see a lot a ref on the pitch can not; grabbing from behind, pushing in a crowd, ect. The ref has to call the game he sees not what the fans sees, and IMHO that is often a big part of the "Boy did our ref stink" gripe.

Too often people are critical of the refs but have never done the job. Like most everything in life it is easier to stand back and make "the right call" when your not under pressure.

Maybe the purpose of this thread would be better served if we recognized the good refs and what they did that made them stand out!
Hard part for many is that they forget that when a ref does a good job he tends to disappear when you look back at the game, becasue he/she set the tone/limits for the game with the calls and the players understood and it was their play you remember.