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Originally Posted by Kansas Ref
*But that ''first and only time" this first year Official has to adjudicate upon this type of occurrence/event could occur in the very first game that they officiate --thus, worthwhile to at least offer our input no?
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Assuming his partner is an experienced official, that partner should step in if this situation presents itself.
I'm a huge advocate for knowing the rules, but I'm also an advocate for incremental knowledge. There are some situations that the veteran official will simply need to handle in the rare case that they pop up.
If you're putting two rookies on the same game, then you'll just have to take a chance that they might in fact screw up a ruling on a bigfoot play. I'm ok with that, especially when the ruling is on which team gets the AP to start the game.