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Originally Posted by BballRookie
My two cents:
In response to it being said that this question is posted on here every year: maybe it should be. The life blood of every forum on the internet is a combination of new users and old users. In this situation we have new officials who are curious (me) and learning (me) and we have a officials who have been at it for a while and discovered this forum long ago. With new officials joining all the time the "old timers" will probably have to be patient and deal with these inquiries.
Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone knows the answer to these questions or were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.
And.. yes, you can do a search by topic, but with the rules changing ever so slightly all the time so isn't it safer to ask instead of reading a post from 2004?
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It's not the repeated questions that surprise me, nor even the frequency. It's the nature of some of them. This particular question implies that the poster doesn't know the basics of player and team control. I shouldn't be surprised, given that there are plenty of playoff-level high school officials who don't know the basics like this. But it is a basic, in that player and team control affect so many rulings; not knowing this means you're really guessing on a lot of plays.