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Wow. My post has taken on a life of its own!
Some Background.
Firstly, I do work in Ohio and until this moment I thought that everyone brought a rulebook to varsity games.
In eight years this was thefirst time that we ever had to pull it out.
The play in question was a scoring play in overtime that involved a backward pass to an ineligible player (by position and number). Coach for B calls a TO and requests a conference. Due to the uniqueness of the play and the magnatude of the play we decided to pull the book, verify our call (correct as it turned out) and satisfied the coach. With that in mind, a couple of thoughts.
1. I am stunned by the arrogance of the above posters. Not one of you knows the rules and their application without fail. If you claim to you are a liar.
2. Why not use every resource at our disposal? The game is not about us.
3. To those of you that think having the rulebook available is a bad idea, a question. Is it better to make a mistake in a critical situation that unfairly hurts a team than to lower yourself to look at the book.
4. As I said, this was the first time we ever had to pull it. I also would not pull it to satisfy a coach and prove my call. We had a question and we answered it.
5. We do carry a case book. Put them in a little Ziplock bag with the clip and hand it to the box man and hope we never have to use it. Kind of like a nuclear weapon.
6. Lastly, this dialogue is great between officials from different areas.
Feel free to attack me. I'm comfortable with my rule book orientation.
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