Villanova @ Xavier Plays (Video)

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Originally Posted by Jesse James

The advantage Bluiett gained was he couldn't keep his foot legally behind the stripe until the ball contacted. Make them balance up and shoot the ball--it's not second graders who can't hoist it up there otherwise.

I've seen enough of these passed on in the last month to realize it's becoming philosophy. Baffles me--Seriously, what do you tell the opposing coach when he questions?

I called a violation very similar to this in a BV game early in the season directly in front of an opposing coach at the end of 1st half. He yelled for it and I called it at nearly the exact time. As my partners and I were walking into the locker room, one of my partners told me never to call that again and I shouldn't even be looking there. Now, he's got 30+ years of experience and half of that doing college games, but I disagree with that philosophy.
If I hadn't of called it, I would have had some explaining to do to that coach. I've continued to call it as the rule says to.