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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
The rules don't base the fouls on who initiates contact, regardless of how many officials use that term. In fact, the foul is often on the player who didn't initiate contact simply because they were not in a legal position. Basing fouls in who initiated the contact will often lead to the wrong foul call.
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The problem with posts is the that what's intended isn't always what's read since we're not face to face for clarification. I understand exactly what you are saying and ref accordingly. My intent was to point out that while most of the time we have a clear basis on who was at fault for the contact (legal position, initiated first, etc.) there are times that we do not and therefore it is better to trust your partners no call rather than come in with a guess based on nothing.
However, if you are certain you had a better angle and/or you have enough to feel VERY confident reaching out to get it than I'm ok with that too; but you better be able to defend it with a lotmore than "I thought something happened there) if your partner wants to know why you were swimming in his end of the pool.
Again, I advocate erring on the side of trust and staying in your primary as much as you can. I am by no means territorial and think a good crew will pick up calks outside their PCA a few times per game but in my experience it happens when we know a partner was strait lined or we actually saw something big that the others did not.
Finally, to reiterate, completely agree with those who have made additional points about what constitutes a foul. Simply pointing out that there are some times good reasons a foul is not called so trust your partners as much as you can.