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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
Your condescension is duly noted. Also, please look up the definition of empirical. You’ll find your post to be comically contradictory.
Experience is all well and good and useful. But it is also subject to bias. That’s why I’d prefer if mechanics decisions like this were rooted in observed statistics. I’m just not getting that vibe from the text of the MHSAA justification.
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Maybe they felt that officials talked too much to coaches or get pulled into unnecessary conversations. Whatever the reasoning does it really matter in the end? Some decisions on mechanics are just based on who is making the decision, not some data-driven position. And if you want to avoid officials always talking to coaches, that is a way to accomplish that very position.
Peace