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Old Tue Jun 03, 2014, 09:18am
CecilOne CecilOne is offline
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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn View Post
How are you going to justify this no call when the coach comes out? I get not calling a player shuffling their feet. But stepping WAY off the base to look in - this is an elephant call you can't fail to make.
"foot went way up, not forward" That would fall under "gotcha".

And I try not to make calls based on what a coach thinks or just to avoid debate. If needed, I would explain to the coach that it is not the purpose or interpretation of the rule; then count him/her as a lost vote.
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