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Originally posted by Bob M.
REPLY: The important thing to realize in this situation is that each official made a judgement in the play. The fact that the wing's judgment resulted in putting a rag on the ground should be given no more weight than that of B whose judgment said there was no foul. Each judgment has equal validity until a determination is made as to whose call should stand. And that determination cannot wait until halftime or after the game. It must be discussed in the moment. After the game is a good time to discuss why there might have been a disagreement (positioning, angle, seeing part of the play, etc.) but you must resolve the disagreement in the context of the game at that time. The wing's refusal to hear any dissent and the R's avoidance of dealing with legitimate disagreement both were shining examples of making themselves "bigger than the crew."
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Well if the NFL and D1 Conferences have meetings for hours before their games to discuss why the evaluators downgraded them for calls and no calls, I think we can discuss plays after the fact just like them. All I am hearing is the word "disagreement." I am not hearing anything about whose opinion are we going to agree with? I just have an official disagree and if they both are sure of their call, what next? Folks have even said that if the calling official is "unsure" then we might go with the non-calling official. But that did not happen here. We do not know how sure he was. The disagreement was never discussed with him from what I am reading.
Peace