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Originally posted by IREFU2
Our board stressed in the last meeting that if a crash happens, someone has to come up with something.
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I don't like this sentence. It sounds too much like the directive that the NCAA women's assigners were giving a couple of years ago.
The problem is that there is a place for incidental contact in the game, which can sometimes be severe. Of course, block/charge situations may not be the appropriate place for the application of that rule. The official must have good judgment of when calls need to be made and what contact should be allowed.
The above quote makes it sound like there must be a whistle and a foul called whenever two players collide. I don't believe that is right according to the rules, and I hope that people wouldn't officiate that way.