Controversial Play in MN 3A title game

[Mbilica]

I am struck by the absolute disdain for 10th grade level arithmetic I am reading here. Calling it Differential Calculus is silly. HS officials have to rule on planes of the goal line and sideline, lines to gain, rectangular free blocking zones, neutral zones on scrimmage plays and free kicks, as well as manage forward or backward on a pass. This is all geometry and basic physics, with only arithmetic math. When players and the ball move with speed and direction, officials have to use their innate background in physics and math to make judgements throughout the game. On this forum, we can't really describe these judgements without mentioning principles like force, direction, speed, etc, that happen to be common to math and physics as well as ball games. Using physics to describe how things work makes officiating easier, not harder. We can use this play to make a prediction about how we will call a similar play if we see it on the field in one of our games. That's because the physics of the situation will be the same. Disparaging math and science for those of us that find comfort in those explanations makes it appear that we all disagree, when in fact, we all agree on this play and that it is a foul.

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