Crazy play

[Bfair]

I think another mistake that was made here that I've not seen mentioned is that your final decision was to call a BOOT infraction.

BOOT is an appeal play.
The situation was not appealed, but the penalty was still imposed by the officials.

Even your chosen remedy was not in accordance with the rules when you made the decision to remedy the previous errors. That is not meant to fault your decision, but only to highlight that when looking for a remedy to a third world situation you need to look for something supported by the rules and supported by fairness for the situation.

While offense, defense, or officials could have been alert to note the irregularity as it occurred---none did. Still, the final outcome allowed the defense to benefit from the situation when they had done absolutely nothing to earn that benefit.

Freix