What's the correct call

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Bingo. Was he bald? Did he have gray hair? Was he using a noose lanyard, and wearing a belt? Was he BillyMac?

It was not me; I wear beltless pants. LOL

And I think it was a stupid mistake when the NFHS did make excessive swinging of the elbows a TF when no contact was made. Why? We had officials not calling it when it was a violation (I was not one of the spineless officials.) but the NFHS logic at the time was to make it a TF insuring that nobody would call it.

I will admit that once it became a TF, whenever I had such a situation I had a PCF; with apologies to Lou Costello: "I was a baaad boy." LOL

One time a girls' H.S. varsity HC complained that there was no contact; I told her I could correct call to a TF, to which she replied: "Great call."

But I did make the TF call just once in a girls H.S. varsity game: A1 was about 6'-00" and she got a defensive rebound and started swinging away while B1 (5'-06") tried to guard her. It was obvious that there was no contact but A1's actions where a casebook example of the infraction and I really had no choice but to charge her with a TF. And yes, her HC came close to getting one too, LOL.

MTD, Sr.