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Now you knew that there was a problem with the shift and would have ruled that way if you had been just a little more confident with your judgement right then. The bigger question to me is why the wings didn't also understand that the shift was illegal. Either of them could have also made the correct call. Were they also scolded for ruling incorrectly? We had a junior high game a couple of years ago where K tried the stand-up-then-go-set shift like the Cowboys used to do. As soon as they shifted like that the defense jumped but I ruled to K's coach behind me that they came right up to the neutral zone but did not encroach.
A varsity coach in my area was doing this for a couple of years and was getting those calls so then my state made it a emphasis point and that season he got a call go against him and when that happened he stopped using the technique. So better emphasis by each state will make sure that they don't try this crap to get cheap yards.
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