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Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Good point. And it almost got me in trouble just last week at a D3 game. I had a charge and instinctively waved it off. Then, at the table, I was thinking, "Jeez, was it already out of his hand?" I asked my partners about it at halftime (both very accomplished D1 officials). They said, if it's that close, wave it off. That's what everybody expects anyway. If it's obvious, go ahead and count it, but on one that was that close, it was ok to wave it off.

But your point is very well taken.

Then you would have had a charge and no player control. Signals would be different.