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Originally Posted by deecee
My personal feelings are that a BLARGE can not happen. The officials should get together and come to a conclusion on one or the other. Having a blarge IMO is the easy way out. But there is a very specific caseplay with instructions for what to do that must be followed. IMO they got it wrong and should look at the NCAA-W way of handling it.
You cannot have a BLOCK AND a CHARGE on the same play.
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We could have a philosophical discussion about Schrodinger's Cat and its application to this situation, but I agree with you -- in real time we need to decide who is more responsible and go with that. Till the NFHS changes things to match the NCAAW, we need to follow the case play.
(The one thing I always ask in this situation is this -- we always praise officials for holding their preliminary and making sure there's only one call on the play. But what if that call is absolutely horrible? Why is one 100% wrong call better than 2 different calls -- at least one of them, then, is right.)
The only good thing about the NFHS/NCAAM way of handling it is what happens in NCAAW if both officials are stubborn and insist they are right? Does the third official get to break the tie? Does the R on the game decide (and there's a 2/3 chance he's involved in the call)? Do they poll the coaches and/or fans?