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Old Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:17pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by walt View Post
From the video angle and the position of the official, one of the first things he sees is the defender's forearm coming in. If I had to guess, that is why he immediately went to a block call. Why he didn't call the arm bar, I have no idea but I think that is why he called a defensive foul. To me, this is PC whether in NCAA-W or NFHS. The forearm wasn't extended away from the body IMHO.
A forearm wouldn't be signaled as a block. It would be a push or illegal use of hands.
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