out of bounds vs 4 hit call

[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by FMadera

It's kind of ironic, what line judges are and are not allowed to rule (or have input) on.

Attacker hits ball into block and it lands out of bounds on the blocker's side: LJ signals touch, ruling it out of bounds off the blocking team.

Attacker hits ball and the ball lands on the attack side: Unless the attacking team has the ball blocked into them, LJ can only signal out, and it becomes a referee decision as to off of whom the ball was out. However, said ball is blocked back into the attacker and lands out? Now the LJ can once again give input as to who touched it last, signalling touch.

I can see why this would be confusing to people.

And it can get even more confusing - you have an attack/block situation at the sideline and the ball hits the antenna. The line judge first indicates the "out" by waving the raised flag and pointing at the antenna, then indicates which team last touched it before it hit the antenna.