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[Middleman]

Originally posted by Ed Hickland
Oh my gosh! What a mess.

First, I would call a conference just to make sure the official said what was reported by the coach.

This is a situation where somebody is not going to be satisfied no matter what you do. Therefore, I would have a "do over." It will take about ten minutes to peel Coach A off the clouds.

You have no mess, you have K's ball. By rule. And you certainly have NO BASIS for a do-over.

The conference you have will be the coach/referee conference in which you are explaining that it is a free kick and there will be no reversal of the call. Charge him with a time-out and move on.

But the worst thing you could do would be to penalize K for knowing the rule, and benefit R for not knowing it. You simply cannot take the ball away from K. Can't be done.