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The officials manual specifically stated in the past that a flag was not thrown on the first warning. IMO, it was to differentiate between the warning and the penalty.

Up until last year, I "erroniously" threw a flag on the warnings because the coaches responded to it more than a simple warning. When they see the yellow fly, they instantly thought it was something other than a warning. In fact, once I threw it and the coach thought I gave him a 15 USC penalty. Probably hurt my rating... Oh well.

I like the change. The flag really does change the message or the warning.

As for coming to the center, I never did that in the first place. I simply came to the hash at most anyway. No sense going all the way to the middle. Most of the time no need to go to the hash unless a kid gets confused.