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Old Mon Aug 15, 2016, 08:07am
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You want consistency don't you? And every thing from the NFL is not foreign to the high school level. Peace
There's no reasonable expectation of consistency between NFL and NFHS. NFL is game played by exceptional adults designed to generate huge sums of money, NFHS is an interscholastic sporting event played by teenagers.

NFL players ROUTINELY perform physical acts teenagers usually only fantasize about. The two games are on completely different levels, for completely different purposes (each of which work very well on their own LEVEL).

Consistency is a laudable and achievable objective, within a game, maybe within a season at the same level. EXPECTING it on EVERYTHING between different levels is simply an impossible overreach.

As levels rise, so do individual skills and rules, at times, need to adjust to keep pace with higher skills.
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Old Mon Aug 15, 2016, 10:36am
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Too bad you can't fine coaches who let players violate uniform rules like the players get fined in the NFL!!
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Old Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:01am
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There's no reasonable expectation of consistency between NFL and NFHS. NFL is game played by exceptional adults designed to generate huge sums of money, NFHS is an interscholastic sporting event played by teenagers.

NFL players ROUTINELY perform physical acts teenagers usually only fantasize about. The two games are on completely different levels, for completely different purposes (each of which work very well on their own LEVEL).

Consistency is a laudable and achievable objective, within a game, maybe within a season at the same level. EXPECTING it on EVERYTHING between different levels is simply an impossible overreach.

As levels rise, so do individual skills and rules, at times, need to adjust to keep pace with higher skills.
Individual skill has nothing to do with ruling on a catch. We expect similar things at all levels for a holding to be called or a passing interference to called. I really do not understand why people think a player cannot expect them to control the ball similarly as someone at the higher levels? Heck, if you do not have the ball at the end of the catch anyway, I am supposed to use some artificial standard as to when you had the ball and I have no replay to confirm or deny such a call?

Actually, I think it is easier to rule on catches because the players are a little slower, but I still use the same basic standards before I rule a catch. I don't need state guidelines to make those rulings either.

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You see micromanaging, I see philosophies to ensure more consistent officiating.
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Old Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:15pm
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You see micromanaging, I see philosophies to ensure more consistent officiating.


I have been critical of the Gold Book in the past and the whole "contenders/pretenders" nonsense, but this is a great document I will probably use myself in an association meeting.
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