Play overtime or not?

[hamnegger]

Originally Posted by UNIgiantslayers

How exactly do you do that tactfully? There's an old-timer around here who just got back into it and was discussing PC with kids earlier this year. He was telling them that if they turn away from the contact, they will get called for a block every time. By my understanding, you can brace for contact which that seems like it would fall under. I tried to tell him that, but he said something along the lines of "yeah, that's the rule but no good official will call it that way if someone turns away or braces themselves like that."

Guess I am a crappy official bc I called a PC on a A1 in a HS game this week as B1 established LGP saw A1 coming at her full speed and turned her back in fear of imminent trucking. Nobody argued the call either.