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Originally Posted by BillyMac

Don't you guys observe the post game handshake lines after your jurisdiction ends?

Sadly, yes. Technically, our jurisdiction hasn't ended since we're still in the visual confines, but the MIAA strips us of penalty power relative to that game, so effectively it has. Bad behavior can be reported and perhaps have future ramifications, but please.

Believe me, my responses in this thread haven't been meant to indicate that officiating in Mass. is better than other places just because our captains' meetings are less corny. Quite to the contrary, the handshake thing is the absolute bane of our existence.

If rigidifying our captains' meetings to NFHS/IAABO standards was all it would take to eliminate the state high school association's edict that we observe the postgame handshake, every official would take that trade in a heartbeat.

All I'm saying in this IAABO-specific thread is that, in Mass., all of that captains/coaches meeting BS was already ignored, so I imagine this new wrinkle will be too.