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Old Mon Jan 09, 2006, 12:26pm
tomegun tomegun is offline
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Z, most of what you just posted is a part of my pre-game. It is amazing how many officials hear what you are saying about a delayed whistle and then there are 8 whistles when the play is clearly in one officials primary. I try (TRY) to get this point across by saying we should try to shrink the grey area. I mean nothing more than letting the proper official call plays that are clearly in their area. For instance, when a player is clearly in the lane on the side opposite the L, it is NOT a grey area. That is the C's primary UNLESS it is a foul that happens on the front side and the C cannot physically see it. Even then, we are talking about a call across the lane, not 50ft! I don't like to constantly have double-whistles on routine plays are are clearly in someone's primary. Add to that illegal picks, post play and RSBQ and the game should flow, but it is a requirement to catch things off-ball. If we don't have a number of off-ball fouls, I question how good of a job my crew did.
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