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Originally Posted by RichMSN
We had a HS crew of old-timers up until 4 years ago where the R wouldn't let the BJ/LJ (at the time) signal good on kicks -- they just gave a thumbs up and he would be the only one signaling good.
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In cases where you have one official under each post, I always thought the best would be to have each of them signal only whether the kick passed inside their own post and over the bar, ignoring the opposite post, and only the referee making the score or no score signal. As a touch judge in rugby I always told the referee I was putting my flag up if the ball passed to the other side of my post, no matter how stupid that would make me look if the ball went 50 feet outside the opposite post. Really inefficient is the way they do it in the NFL, with the officials under the posts conferring first and then signaling in unison score or no score and the referee then signaling.
What a rugby ref told me was most important was
when the touch judges signaled the ball as passing the posts, because if they do it at that instant, the ref can see where the ball is. So that should be part of the mechanic too for officials under the posts. Like maybe having their fist out and swiveling thumb up or down at the instant the ball passes.
Robert