Rules B&W

[buckrog64]

besides weather and etc., you forgot to put in things like point spread, over/under, and so on....ouch!

you want to call everything b/w at a jr. high game? I had some kids get all excited because a chin strap was loose during the game; they had lost track of how many times they jumped a tiny bit early before the snap and how many times we let it go. Talking usually works wonders at that level. Friday night? That's a bit different.

[Jaysef]

...however, a lopsided score should be left out of the equation...as I posted in a previous thread, score should not influence the way we officiate...safety is our main objective, not which team we presume is getting the shaft.

[txrefcshou]

Originally Posted by Jaysef

...however, a lopsided score should be left out of the equation...as I posted in a previous thread, score should not influence the way we officiate...safety is our main objective, not which team we presume is getting the shaft.

I somewhat disagree about not taking score into consideration. I think that many fouls have no bearing on safety and I have many times in a lopsided let them go, especially on the team that is getting killed.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by txrefcshou

I somewhat disagree about not taking score into consideration. I think that many fouls have no bearing on safety and I have many times in a lopsided let them go, especially on the team that is getting killed.

I agree, especially at lower levels. Say you have an 8th grade game, Team A losing 40-0 in the fourth quarter, and your RB leans forward just before the snap, or the WR moves forward in response to HL's "Here's your line" and is set for only half a second before the ball is snap. You going to call that?