Originally Posted by Bob M. (Post 907772)

REPLY: If you want to end your officiating career and really go out in a blaze of YouTube glory, just blow the ready-for-play with A on the field ready to go and B on the sideline. Warn them, give them a DOG, give them a second DOG. But don't EVER blow the RFP without B on the field ready to go.

Originally Posted by JasonTX (Post 907409)

Our line judge does not come out until the home team is out. He is up there and ensures that they come out onto the field.

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRef (Post 907968)

While that is the mechanic we also use, what do you do if the coach simply does not bring his team out of the locker room? An official can only tell the coach to get on the field, not physically bring them on the field. It's happened here where the team is told repeatedly that they need to be on the field and they are still late, so having an official there is not the always going to prevent the problem.

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRef (Post 907968)

While that is the mechanic we also use, what do you do if the coach simply does not bring his team out of the locker room? An official can only tell the coach to get on the field, not physically bring them on the field. It's happened here where the team is told repeatedly that they need to be on the field and they are still late, so having an official there is not the always going to prevent the problem.

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman (Post 907437)

It's not clear to me that any of 3-6 applies until the game has begun. I think it's up to league rules as to whether there'd be any sanction or not, or what kind, but I think it's outside officials' jurisdiction under the playing rules, although there might be something in the officials' manual on it. The rules say when the officials' jurisdiction ends, though not when it begins, so I take it that the game, and any results of the game, begins when it begins.