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Originally posted by mcrowder
The problem with rules proscribing forfeits when ejections are appropriate is that often umpires will not eject when it is appropriate because they know a forfeit is not appropriate to the situation they are dealing with.
We have a local youth football league with a rule that tells us to penalize 15 yards for a particular transgression. Every official I know feels that this particular transgression should be penalized by A) warn for 1st offense, B) 5 yards after that (some would escalate to 10 for 3rd offense, 15 for 4th). So.... no one EVER calls this penalty.
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Just like Fed changing the OBS ruling. When they dropped the automatic one base award, the rule was applied more often.
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