Debunking the "over the back" myth

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Originally posted by just another ref
This will probably not be a popular post with the masses.
I get almost as tired of officials criticizing the phrase
"over the back" as I do coaches using it. Don't we all know what it is the coach is yelling for when he yells
"over the back" or "reaching in" or whatever?

But jar, that's not the problem. The problem is that coaches yell "Over the back!" whenever the player behind reaches of his opponent's head, makes no contact, or there's contact within the vertical plane, and gets the rebound. They don't understand the rules. I can live with a coach screaming it when there's illegal contact but the point of the "There's no such thing as over the back," is that coaches want it called anytime the player from behind rebounds, contact or not.