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Originally Posted by mbyron
Substantively, I agree, but the reason is that the rules define 'incidental' but not 'marginal'.
If 'marginal' means 'incidental', then we don't need the word 'marginal'. If it means something else, then it's not going to mark the distinction between legal and illegal contact.
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Marginal in the context I have heard it (always in camp coming from the mouths of conference supervisors and/or D1 officials) is "contact not worthy of a foul call".
So it's not exactly a technical term, just the "in" term in some regions
to assess whether or not a foul should have been called.