A college official I talked to this season about a BI no-call (where an offensive player tapped a ball in that may have been in the cylinder) told me that his criteria included whether the ball was falling off of the rim. In particular, from the T he could see daylight between the ball and the rim, and the ball was clearly falling out of the cylinder, it looked legit to him, so he passed on the call.
I noted that his perspective and mine were quite different. I was sitting about 5 rows up in the bleachers FTL extended. The ball was falling out toward the T. I thought it was a lot closer to (actually still in) the cylinder than he did. I don't know how you could possibly ensure a good angle on that call every time. Perhaps seeing daylight and seeing it falling out of the cylinder are the best criteria that could be employed to judge such a play?
[Edited by Back In The Saddle on Apr 6th, 2004 at 07:25 PM]
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