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Alright coach settle down and get back in your box... You've got a beef, I hear ya, I said that. But its not the officials' fault. You're players let the ball become live and not do anything. The same is true in basketball, the referee does not make the ball become dead he simply indicates that something has happened to make the ball dead.
But just for fun lets look at what could have been done...
Some have suggested an unsportsmanlike penalty which being a non-player foul would have succeeding spot enforcement, games already over too bad.
Some have suggested killing the play. Well since nothing happened to cause the ball to be dead we've got an inadvertent whistle. With the indavertant whistle team A chooses to replay obviously. Penalize the USC if you want, but clock starts on the ready and its 4th down. Yeah we've got to extend the period for one untimed down but all team A has to do is let the clock run out, then run their 1 play and take a real knee.
Or same as above but the R invokes the rule which allows him to not start the clock because Team A was trying to consume time "illegally" (which is a stretch). Still Team A can take their snap and run off 10 seconds.
What could not be an option is to whistle the play dead and give Team B a turnover...two fundamentals: 1. No live ball foul causes the ball to become dead. and 2. No foul causes loss of the ball.
So coach I don't know how you would like to rectify this situation, but please feel free to contact your state association if you feel your team was the victim of an unsporting act.
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