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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
What was initiallt signalled? A foul cannot be downgraded after going to the monitor, only upgraded or upheld.
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Don't know what the initial signal was. Is there a preliminary signal for flagrant foul 1?
From my (limited) understanding of NCAA rules, the following section suggests to me that you can go to the monitor and determine that a Flagrant 1 did NOT occur, then you just go POI.
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When it is determined that a flagrant 1 or 2 personal foul, a flagrant 2 contact technical foul or a fight did not occur or did not occur within the prescribed time frame, play shall be resumed where the stoppage of play occurred to review the act.
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That reads to me like the officials could have determined from the monitor (and the information gathered from the player) that no flagrant 1 occurred, and just put the ball in to Duke on the endline. So what am I missing?
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Secondly, is there any audio to prove the Clemson player told the official that? And even if he did, since when do we officiate the game based on what a player told us?
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I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Are you saying you think Smith is lying? What reason would he have for lying?
Even so, no, I don't officiate my games based
solely on what a player tells me, but if I think there might be a chance I kicked a call, and then I get information from a player or coach who would be benefiting from said kicked call, I'm certainly not going to just throw out that information.