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Originally posted by zebraman
Just to be clear, the head guy never said it had to be called on the defense. He wants a whistle on contact that causes a body to hit the floor. Use your referee judgement to decide if it's on the defense or the offense. The context that I heard it in was regarding a block/charge and I heard it consistenly at our state-run officials camp last summer. The screening stuff is new to me today....
And Jurassic, you're right in a perfect world. However, we live in an officiating world where rough play is a POI almost every year and our state is no exception. Our "head guy" saw that way too many high school officials were "no calling" a block/charge instead of making a tough decision and calling it a block or a charge. The result is that the games were getting too rough. For the high school game, I'm sure the director finds it much easier to live with a few wrong calls now and then rather than what he was seeing... which was the "let em' play" philosophy which is much too rough for high school games.
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Z, I don't have a problem at all with someone wanting a call on the block/charge if someone hits the deck. As long as there's not a flop involved naturally. I can agree with your director wanting that. The same philosophy should NOT apply on screens though, imo. Apples and oranges. From Rocky's post, I got the impression that this all stemmed out of an incident where a player got hurt while setting a screen, and no foul was called. On those plays, it's not necessarily a foul on the defender. Could be on either opponent, or you could have a no-call- depending on the official's judgement.