California Guys, Please Tell Me This Ain't So!

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All things considered, resolving tie football games is a relatively NEW concept for scholastic football. With all due respect to Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and NY, who have decided to resolve tie games through overtime play, California apparently has established their own policy, of leaving that choice up to it's Sections. So it goes in California.

What difference does, "if both coaches agree" make if that agreement differs from established rule? Can both coaches decide to play "Sudden Death"? In NY we're still testing the 20 yard OT procedure, as decided by the State, can both coaches "agree" to choose the NFHS 10 yard version? Not hardly.

If the officials involved in this California game were following THEIR approved rules, they were right regardless of what, "both coaches agreed", if they were not following their rules, they were mistaken.