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Old Sat Dec 10, 2011, 03:57am
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Good answer. Perhaps it will impress the jury. Now for the rebuttal.



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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post

Two judgments of the same play have been made and communicated.
So what? On any other play, the official can make a signal, then go with something else. If called upon for an explanation, it's simply, "I made a mistake, which I realized afterward." This can apply to either the signal or the call itself. Does this look good? Of course not. But it is a part of the human element.
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You can default to one or the other through some automatic protocol but that doesn't make the resulting call the right call. For that matter, it is probably so close that you could make a valid argument that either call was right.
Nothing we do insures that any call is the right call. The only thing certain if you go with a blarge is that the wrong call is a part of the call.
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