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Originally Posted by IUgrad92
I think that as we get older, it does take longer to process what took place on a particular play. Thank God that hasn't started happening with me yet. 
This OP play is a fairly easy travel call in an HS game, at live speed. I guess some just have the ability to process it faster. To say that it would be an 'anticipated' call only shows disdain for those able make this call correctly at live speed. |
Well if officials get these plays right at live speed, why is it they cannot get travels right when the pivot foot is easily identifiable? I see so many missed travels when the player is holding the ball and about to dribble than any other kind of movement in the game at the HS level, but now we want to act like officials get a player moving where possession and when the pivot foot is established. Please do not act like there are these vast amounts of officials that can identify a play like this in live speed when they cannot get a standing player travel before and after they make a move. And the reason this play would be hard to tell by this, is because the issue is possession, not what foot was on the ground. And that is the reason I posted the other play on this site yesterday. Actually I use that other situation in our meetings and class as an example of not whether it was an actual travel, but to illustrate to call the obvious. If you have to slow anything down to determine something like a travel, lane violation or a carry, they should not be called in my opinion. And most of us are not going to get video like this to show we were right. Because if you call something this close in a critical moment without slow motion, someone might just think you anticipated like I stated and not use you or expect you will get the big call right. Get the elephants, not the ants. This play to me is clearly an ant. The last thing I want to do is make a call that is very debatable. That is clearly the case when the people that advocate calling a travel have to qualify it by what they would do in live speed.
Peace