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NCAA Discussion / Re: Help a young Line Judge
« Last post by ilyazhito on Today at 11:14:41 AM »I sent you a PM.
Probably not a bad idea to re-enforce some of the particular problems we see during the "are all your players legally equipped and not wearing any illegal equipment" segment of the show.I think they still don’t understand the question. The question is not “should we be fashion or uniform police.” The question is, why are eye shade, and play cards considered illegal equipment when improperly worn, rather than just being improperly worn legal equipment.
This still doesn't answer the basic question of why the NFHS decided to hypothetically split the enforcement of legal equipment being improperly worn into two types on their POE. I guess I'll just chalk it up to this is what happens when committees work on projects.
IMHO, this POE emphasizes the need for a 'walk thru' the teams in pre-game , as these are easily visable. Correct them then ,notthem during the game. I'm considering expanding my pre-game coach's question to : " COACH, ARE ALL YOUR PLAYERS LEGALLY EQUIPTED WITH PROPERLY WORN EYE SHADE, PLAY CARDS AND CLEAR EYE SHIELDS ?"
Call me crazy, but I think the old interp made a little more sense. The crux of the situation is: are we giving him forward progress or not? If we are, TD. If we are not, no TD.
If this happens at the 50 and the receiver gets driven back and spins out of it, we're letting him run and he doesn't get forward progress.
Ah, so there is a relevant change for this year in this A.R. (I tried to see if the 2022 rule book was available but no dice). This new set of rulings are much more sensible to me.
The thing with uniform police, at least round these parts is: "what if" the State guy is in the stands and/or if it's a TV game "what if" the State is watching this?
Necessary evil is how this topic is thought of round these parts.
Similarly it is how language is generally handled too: could the State guy in the stands hear what I thought I heard?
Kalle,
It is not yet on the NCAA Rules site. It is available on the Arbiter/NCAA CFO web site (but, you may not be a member of the NCAA CFO).