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Originally posted by JugglingReferee
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/5000806
Don't ever do this:
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Originally posted by Associated Press
Weis said the referee first told him Leinart had fumbled the ball forward, then ruled he had fumbled it backward. He said he was told by the referee that the official who had made the ruling had changed his mind.
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As an official, don't ever change your mind. Just make the right call to begin with.
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I don't think the problem is so much with changing a call. Obviously, this is one that you want to SELL, but you want to get it right in the end.
If Weis's quote is accurate, then I think the bigger problem is how the R explained this - that the official "changed his mind." That makes it sound like the forward/backward fumble is an arbitrary decision and the HL is pulling it from his a**.