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Old Wed Oct 15, 2003, 09:57pm
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Close enough to cover it all? How close do you need to be to cover a play?

If you can't recognize a foul from 35 yards away, being 10 or 5 yards from the play isn't going to make it any easier....you'll just look like your even more blind to the coaches, players, coaches.

Granted, you may not catch all of the subtle grabs and tugs from 35 yards, but most players are good enough to play through those anyway (and if you have the players keep their shirts in, you probably can make this call from 30 yards away too)

If you put three whistles out there, with some of that contact you describe, one ref may see the contact "trifling", another may see as egregious...one yells "Play On" as the whistle chirps from the wing because they have a lesser angle, but think they see something

More whistles, more fouls are called for "incidental" contact. Three people are interpreting contact, and there is no consistency in what contact is a foul or not.

But you don't put a flag up unless you really want that foul called....

Sounds like it was a game that cried for the DSC if there was lots of subtle contact...but I think you all could have guessed that
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