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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
Could have, but I can understand why they didn't. This isn't a 100%, positively, "you gotta make that right" kind of situation. If you did, now you're making the R look like cr@p, and you have to have a re-jump off the inadvertent whistle, and maybe the table will reset the clock to 5:00 even though they're not supposed to, and then you have to go explain that to them, yada yada yada. Your good intentions could make things very complicated for a relatively minor rules kick.
Or you could just let the R take the ball OOB and move on. I'm not saying it's necessarily the right thing to do, but it's what I would do.
Go ahead, Nevada. Do your worst!  |
Officials should leave their egos at the door. No one is perfect. Get it right. If it is clear it is an error, correct it. And if the guy that made the error has a problem with it, he has no business officiating, period, much less a 2nd OT NCAA game.