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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
To not call travels because they were not big enough travels or because some others can't tell is a slippery slope...how much is big enough. It is a lot easier to have a black and white line on travels, just like out of bounds....it either is or it isn't (whether we call it right nor not).
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I don't think it's like discerning and calling OB violations. I'd offer that there a plenty of things that are technically travels that go uncalled (and I'm not talking NCAA-M vs. NCAA-W traveling emphases/lack thereof), and likely unrecognized, especially in games where players are very fast, and that those who are able to discern what should be called versus what shouldn't - much like about 75% of the rest of the game, are setting themselves apart from the herd, so to speak.
A prime example of what I'm talking about is play 1 in the OP. The basics of that play - albeit at at least 2 to 4 times the speed of the OP play - happens probably 20-30 times in almost every college game, when guards pop or weave out in a front court set and receive a pass on the top side of the perimeter. Never called a travel, nor should it be, IMO.
I'd say my stance is that
some types of travels (as well as
all OB violations) should be judged with a black and white line of demarcation, but not others.