Did anyone see the end of the A&M vs Texas game tonight.

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Are you suggesting a middle ground in the rules?

I guess I'm suggesting that it's talked about as I don't know that I'm smart enough to suggest anything. : > ) It just seems like something that needs to be hashed out some more. Maybe a good comparison would be the elbow rule. It used to be a technical when an elbow was thrown with no contact. But refs sometimes would call nothing because they thought the penalty was too harsh. So they changed the penalty from a technical to a violation in order to have the action more consistently penalized. In other words they changed the rule to better match what the officials were thinking and doing. And rightly so I think in that situation. Now no one has any trouble calling the thrown elbow as it gives the official a "minimal" penalty to fall back on while still retaining the option of upgrading it if he wants. This might be a similar situation. With these late in the game fouls it's taught to error on the side of caution when calling the intentional because the penalty is more harsh than a regular foul. A good thought but it creates problems when we get too cute with it.