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Originally Posted by OKREF
To this point. Last year at a camp I had a staffer talk about the crew being consistent. If someone passes on contact, then at least for the next trip or two, contact that was equal to or less than the contact just passed on, should be let go.
In the OP, the first play is a foul, most of us agree on that. However, it wasn't called. There is no reason at all for the next play to have a whistle. I am more concerned with the reasoning for the pass, and the next whistle more than anything.
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Passing on something and missing something are not the same. Just because the first foul was missed doesn't mean a 2nd foul, even if somewhat less contact, should be ignored.
Additionally, the official calling the 2nd contact as a foul may have had no view of what did or did not occur on the previous play. Perhaps it really should have been a foul. To criticize them for making a call on less contact than occurred the first official's miss is entirely unfair.
Consistency is good, but it really doesn't mean anything when one of the calls in the comparison is just a miss.