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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
The marching orders for all my college scrimmages has been "blow the whistle!", so then can be ready for it in the regular season.
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Yeah every year the POE are whistled a ton during scrimmages and exhibition games. This continues into the season for the most part, but usually regresses to the mean by the time conference games come around.
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Originally Posted by johnny d
On the other hand, game time is significantly longer and absolutely no flow. Eventually this might work, but I think the adjustment period is going to be longer than the people who wanted the game called this way thought it was going to be. These players have been using their hands to play defense since they were in junior high, they are not going to stop that fast. In the meantime, the game is going to be boring as hell to watch from the fans perspective.
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Once the players adjust to the new rules and calls we are making (presuming we are calling things consistently and often) the game flow should become much better. I agree with you about the middle school games. I did a MS tournament this week after doing lots of HS games and none of the MS kids could get in Legal Guarding Position or maintain Verticality to save their life. That's where I think we should start, not wait for some "trickle down" to happen.