[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Robmoz

If the Academy members were voting this would have been the result but the NFHS doesn't recognize a member vote to establish its rules. The rule says call the T so I am calling the T.

Now comes the fun part......

Would you really call the T in this particular case? Or would you, in practise, maybe call it a violation, using the rationale that the punishment doesn't really fit the crime? Or even possibly ignore it completely? Isn't this call kinda reminiscent of the old "player with the ball throwing an elbow without contact" call, that most officials seemed to ignore because they thought a T was usually way out of line for the actual act? Maybe I'm wrong, but that call seems to be a whole lot more common now that the FED changed the penalty to a violation from a T.

I think that Dan pointed out a coupla lifetimes ago that this type of OOB call has been changed to a violation in this year's edition of the NCAA rules. Usually we tend to mirror this type of rule change a few years later. Anybody else think that maybe we could be going from a POE telling us to call a T to a rule change making it a violation instead?