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Originally Posted by Bad Mood Risin
Smitty, kook at what Forksref and Careyy said. careyy spells out a time when a whistle would be appropriate, and Forksref said the U will rarely blow the whistle. He didn't say the U will never blow the whistle.
I agree that for a U, the voice is the whistle.
In the original play, the defender piled on a kid on the ground. Would your whistle have supplied some shielding force to the ball carrier? no. A late hit is a late hit. The whistle has nothng to do with it. It's never legal to pile on to a player on the ground -- live ball included. So if you see it, flag it for a late hit and don't listen to nonsense about playing to the whistle. That's bad advice because the whistle almost always comes well after the ball is already dead.
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Those are coach words, and should be ignored. It doesn't mean we should have a quicker whistle. I want slow, slow whistles.
I drill that into my crew members. My crew, in its present form, hasn't had an IW. A former crew member had our last one over 3 years ago. I'm not saying we'll never have another, but we've had a lot of option teams and we've been very good at this aspect of officiating.