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Old Tue Nov 25, 2008, 11:16am
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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. View Post
1) The Lack of Sufficient Action Rule was deleted from the rules years ago.
Yep. And good riddance to it. But 10-1-5 remains. The "policy" has changed, but the underlying principle remains.

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. View Post
2) Don Fowler, a mentor of mine and a member of the OhioHSAA Officials Hall of Fame, had the following philosophy: "You have nothing until you have something." In this case we have nothing. The T or C as the case may be should officiate the game just as he/she would always officiate the game. I might say loud enough for the players near the ball that the ball is Live, but that is far as I would go.

MTD, Sr.
How long would you be willing to continue officiating "nothing"?
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