Does this sound reasonable? For Officials...

[KurtBryan]

Dear Officials:

In the future, when asked to participate by Officials to explore and explain an idea or thought process behind something we at Piedmont are utilizing in the great game of football, I will gladly do so.

* I have spoken with many Officials via phone or email who for their own personal reasons wish to remain anonymous - just as most of you on this site elect to do in this forum. Stay hidden for your own personal reasons.

** Please do not denegrade our efforts during these discussions and in any way imply we create our own "ditty."

We are way beyond that.

And, this particular official was kind enough to call me direct, chat for almost one hour in advance of sending me his email and explaining his own reasons for keeping his name out of the loop.

And no offense, but his note does not marry all of our points at Piedmont, in fact, we think the A-11 is simply the next step in the evolution of the game and in no possible way should be outlawed because of what it offers the kids and the game.

Thanks again guys and best of luck.

Sincerely,

Kurt Bryan

[JRutledge]

Kurt,

All you are trying to do is make a sales pitch. We get it already. This is an official's forum, not one to sell your ideas to. Go to a coach’s forum that wants to discuss this kind of things. Or participate in rules discussions and officiating issues. All you are doing is spamming this site with your product and frankly it is time to move on to other topics. We get it; you think there are officials that like the offense. So freakin what. You are going to have at some point deal with other people that are not on this board and will one day change rules to make this illegal on many fronts. One anonymous email is not going to change that.

Peace

[waltjp]

Dear Coach,

Is your e-mailer a reader of this or other forums? I ask because of his use of the terms "travesty", "deceptive" and "spirit", all of which have been addressed either here or on another site. Just to reiterate - your offense does not violate any rules are written. Some have asked if it creates a travesty of the game, which I do not feel it does. I do believe that it violates the spirit of the rules, which I have written about before.

The e-mailer's claim that it did not draw any flags is moot. As already mentioned there is nothing you are doing that violates any rules as currently written and I know of no procedure that allows us to flag a violation of the spirit of any rule.

[KurtBryan]

Dear Officials:

To answer Walt ?

Yes, that Ref reads online forums and said it is how he learned about this topic being debated and he was most kind to take extra time/effort to point things out as they have been contended. And, I believe he meant "flag" as in after its pre-season review, the A-11 was allowed to be used in games.

But more importantly, not to worry, we have all listed our points quite well on this and other forums, and I believe the issue has had a good shelf life on this type of chat room.

I hope you all have an excellent New Year.

Thank you again.

Kurt Bryan