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Originally Posted by ballgame99
Because coaches and fans "expect" a lot of things to be legal or illegal and that is not the basis for what should and shouldn't be called?
Saw this live the other night and thought of the forum. I also thought it was a legal move and still do.
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Let me try to be clearer -- I'm a proponent of saving the whistle for things that really need a whistle. I've watched other officials call 10 travels in a half and if you did film analysis you'd find that 4-5 of them were borderline or weren't travels at all.
The "looking to catch someone in a travel" mentality puzzles me.
Sure, the opposing coach is going to "think" this is a travel -- they yell TRAVEL on everything even when they don't really know. But when his kid does the exact same thing he thinks it's perfectly legal.
I'm not saying we'll call everything based on what the coaches think, but I'm guessing that 95% of the travels I call....both coaches in their heart-of-hearts know it's a travel.