4.19.8 C editorial change
 

4.19.8 C now says ...one official rules a block while the other official rules a charge.... The word rules has been substituted for the word calls. Can anybody comment on the significance of this?

When we make a "call" we are describing the illegal action we saw. But when we make a "ruling" it is more final...like a decree. It seems to me the Rules Committee is trying to create a scenario where both officials are sure of their calls & their decisions are final.

They did it just to fock with jar.

Your one man crusade is perhaps making a difference! ;)

This change makes it even harder to imagine that a signal dictates ones to do anything.

For once, an "editorial" change is just that.

I disagree. I think makes it more clear that the signal was sufficient to create the conflict. Now, the ruling has come before the signal. You blow the whistle because you've ruled it to be a foul of some sort. If one blows it for a charge and one for a block, you've got a blarge. The only thing that happens after that is a signal and a report, not a ruling.

A rare occasion I see eye to eye with Camron

That's what I always said. The ruling comes before the signal. So those of you who feel obligated to report both fouls now must report them whether preliminary signals are made or not.

Really? I could have sworn that you advocated that there point of no return was when it was reported....and that it shouldn't even be possible to get to the situation since the officials would talk about the call before reporting and could always resolve it to one call.

Don't worry, you'll see eye to eye with me more often in time. :D

And if it really is rare, I'm not wrong that often, so that must mean you are???

As far as I'm concerned there never was a point of no return. If I report my call and then see you start to report yours after, we can still get together and come up with one call. Show me something which says we can't.

Already have, dozens of times.

As an interloper to the board from another forum, I generally enjoy this debate but it doesn't seem as if anyone is engaging JAR's point. Up until now, as I understood the blarge case play, making conflicting signals was considered "calling" each violation on the play and was the point of no return. Are you now saying that making conflicting signals is considered "ruling" each violation on the play? This seems a little specious simply because as you said above ruling comes before signaling.

In other words, here's how I saw the double whistle before working properly based on what I learned here:
You blow your whistle because you've ruled a charge and I blow mine because I've ruled a block. We both put our hands in the air and make eye contact and I defer to you based on coverage. You call a charge and I don't call anything.

But that's obviously not how you would word it?

I think the only practical way to handle it is to base it on the signal. I have no idea why they changed to word from one that has some amount of ambiguity to another that has just as much ambiguity. It doesn't clarify anything. If they had changed the word to signals or indicated, it would have been good, but as it is, there hasn't been an improvement in the wording unless they now define "rule".