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Originally Posted by dash_riprock
The contact does not have to be malicious. If the raised arm was an attempt to dislodge the ball, it would be INT.
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Tee can correct me if I'm remembering wrong, but under HS [FED] rules, I believe that an attempt to dislodge the ball IS, definitionally, "malicious".
"Malice/ malicious" does not relate primarily to the severity or intensity of the act or contact; rather it is determined by the conscious intent to do harm/ wrong [and in some cases, willful indifference to the probability of doing harm].
I'm not disagreeing with dash that the raised arm could be INT: merely asserting that it COULD, if intentionally done to interfere by dislodging the ball, also merit an EJ for malicious contact.
And, FWIW, count me among those who doubt that a conv which results in a delayed MC call is a first-class idea, even on get-it-right-at-all-costs grounds.
MC is a lot like Potter Stewart's rule about pornography: I may not be able to give you an iron-clad all-encompassing definition, but I know it [immediately] when I see it.