NOT a Correctable Error, BUT should it be???

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Originally Posted by jdw3018

A fairly regular basis? I'm in my 7th year of officiating and can't recall every having made this error. Less than a half-dozen times have I disagreed with the way the arrow was pointing on the table, and we fixed those.

I agree with those who state "simple is better," and for the one or two times this ever happens to you, you simply shrug and go on...

jdw,
I have seen it many times over my 30+ years of coaching and officiating (and playing). How many times? If you have had fewer than one mistaken error per YEAR for the past seven years, you are quite blessed. Outside of varsity games, I frequently have to keep track of the possession arrow myself.

How often have I seen the wrong team inbounding the ball? Well, I can comfortably say far, far more often than I have seen a Correctable Error Procedure employed. But, the point should not be that it doesn't happen very often, so let's not worry about it. It should be that it does happen every once in a great while (for you), and we can easily have a rule in place that allows us to fix the error.

Look at some of the cases in the case book. Think those all happen on a regular basis? Once again, they are there because they happened at least once and the NFHS wants the play called fairly.