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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Giving a signal does clarify what he saw and why he did not make the call. It might not be authorized, but we used to give a single for kicking the ball and that was at one time not authorized, but still illegal to kick the ball.
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This remark pertains to the "alligator chop" to signal that the official saw a block rather than a foul.
I know that this topic has been discussed, but I wanted to respond to this thought. NFHS will not authorize the chop, because in the season it did so the number of "blops" (block/chop?) or foul/no-foul double calls would increase 100-fold.
It's one thing if one official passes on a foul and another calls it. It's quite another to have conflicting signals on a play. The latter looks bad, IMO.
Even apart from the question of whether we need a signal for a no-call, for this reason using the "chop" is bad mechanics.