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Originally posted by Richard Ogg
"This is how the game's going to be called now, so adjust." Smart coaches do. Slow coaches keep yelling expecting life to return to their normalacy.
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Kudos to Richard. I think this is an excellent point. POE's are put in the rule book because higher-ups want it that way, and we as officials have an obligation to follow and enforce those rules (in a perfect world!). I think a quick explaination like the one above to a coach who's wise to the game is the best you can do--and I'd bet my Fox that a good coach would adjust right now.
Of course, it's all made easier if we all called games with roughly the same approach, which again is a perfect world!