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Old Mon Mar 08, 2021, 12:53pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Just Looking For The Most Egregious Behavior ...

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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
As a group, I think that we tend to "let more go" during throw-in plays than during other aspects of the game.
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
Why do we do this?
... because in a two person game (as are most high school level games and below), while one official is watching the inbounder (counting five, watching the line, watching a single defender), the other official has to watch eight players all moving in multiple directions over a very expansive area, purposely trying to block each other to prevent each other from going where they want to go, and purposely trying to create space, resulting in the non-administering official just looking for the most egregious behavior?

Could that be why?
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