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Rule On The Prevention of Being Ejected...

If you don't get the first one you will NEVER get the second one.

I had this conversation with my nephew once. He and his Dad (my brother) had called me late on a Friday night after his game and they told me that he had been ejected. They said the first USC he deserved because he had spiked the ball. But they didn't think he deserved the second one because he was at the bottom of pile and was just sort of kicking his legs out to free himself when an official threw the flag on him. I told him that whether or not you deserved the second one is not the reason you got ejected. It was more of the fact that you did deserve the first one and that put you in a position to be subject to a second one, good call or not, and being ejected.

Even my own family wanted to whine but I wouldn't let them. They understood what I was trying to say anyway.

My brother later had a conversation with the guy who called the second one a few weeks later and he told him that if he had to do it over again he wouldn't have flagged him for the stuff under the pile.

But if he hadn't gotten the first USC it wouldn't have mattered.