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Originally Posted by Sharpshooternes
He thought that the flagrant was a bit excessive because players in our state have to sit out the next game in this case, the varsity game the same night.
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I HATE this mentality. We do not determine the punishments - we merely call what happens. We should not base our call on whether we think they deserve the punishment (in this case, sitting out a game) or not. We base our call on what we see. If the punishment doesn't fit the crime, that's an issue between the coach/school and the state.
Had a football official call defensive holding on what was really interference (and couldn't have been holding). I ask why at halftime and he said, "it was really light interference, and he didn't want to penalize the full 15 yards." Ugh!