Thread: No mans land??
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Old Mon Aug 23, 2010, 08:39am
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Originally Posted by With_Two_Flakes View Post
Back in the day (25 years ago) when I first started officiating, it was hammered into me - Don't ever call this, no-one ever calls it, it's a ticky-tack call. Stand a few inches to one side or the other to make him legal from your viewpoint and have a word with the kid after the play is over.

Is the general philosophy in the US nowadays to take it more seriously?
I've always been taught to make 'em legal if at all possible and talk to afterwards and that we should only flag if it is a repeated problem.
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