K-State/West Virgina Almost Blarge

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by just another ref

No, he asked the question, the same one I have asked before: When does a signal, or, in this case apparently, a partial signal, become binding? It is undisputed, I think, that in no other situation is a signal binding at all.
So when, and why, is it binding in this case?

A signal has been given once it has been received. If someone could tell you were indicating a block, you've given enough of it to be received. Likewise for a charge. When both signals has been sufficiently given in such that it was apparent what each person had, you are stuck with a blarge.

As for why it is the case in this situation, well, we've been through that before. Two judgments of the same play have been made and communicated. You can default to one or the other through some automatic protocol but that doesn't make the resulting call the right call. For that matter, it is probably so close that you could make a valid argument that either call was right.