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Originally Posted by TXMike
That is crap. Are you sure you are from Texas ??? First you dismiss preventive officiating and now you endorse over officiaiting.
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No ... this was an attempt at humor. Sorry you didn't get it, and I suppose it should have been accompanied by some sort of icon.
Regarding your "preventative officiating", I did consult some people in the chapter and found that while the opinions were split, the majority seems to be on the side you were endorsing, specifically including my crew chief, so in the future I will warn coaches of I overhear that they are about to run an illegal play. I have always believed in preventative officiating, but didn't think it applied to telling the coaches what plays they can run (at least not DURING the game as opposed to beforehand). But I will now. To me, PO was helping a wideout get "on" or "off", warning players when things start getting chippy, etc.
regarding this OP, of course we should just simply officiate the game presented to us. It's not our call to decide when enough is enough regarding a score. For all we know, the team that's up by 40 may actually be the inferior team and eventually need the points it's still trying to accumulate.