Dishonesty

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

OK,it's football, not basketball, but how about other teams faking defensive injuries on coach's orders to slow down the offense of the Oregon Ducks? There's videos all over the net. And, according to NCAA football rules, there's no penalty for it.

Seems like that scenario was named after the title of this thread.

Football is the same as basketball. If a player goes down injured, they have to leave the game. There's rules in both sports fully covering the officials' duties in situations like that. And because the officials in both sports aren't doctors, we sureashell aren't qualified to judge whether a player is injured or faking it either. We let the people at the contest responsible for that duty do their job.

I'd never dream of accusing a player on the floor in a basketball game or on the field in a football game of faking an injury, no matter what I personally thought. And I've done football a few months longer than basketball. Any college official who tried to pull something like that would be back doing Saturday morning kiddie football in one heckuva hurry.

Little advice for any official....do NOT play God.

JMO