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Old Thu Jan 04, 2007, 03:19am
Johnny Ringo Johnny Ringo is offline
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
At a camp I went to, a very high level D1 official told us, "In the last 4 minutes of the game, any 'meltdown' is a foul. Automatic. No kid is going to fake getting hit in the face in the last 4 minutes of a close game." His definition of a meltdown was a kid just stopping playing to hold a piece of his anatomy. Any time a kid just stops playing and grabs his eye, nose, groin, etc, it's because he was fouled. Call it.

In theory, I understand the desire NOT to call something that you didn't see. But in real life, the kid got fouled. So call it.
I have several friends who are college coaches. I am going to tell them to teach a method where as an offensive player - they go down and get the call - when contact could have happened. If taught properly and practiced, a team can get this call, based on what the very high level Div. I official says.

Last edited by Johnny Ringo; Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 03:27am.