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Originally Posted by Cory
I was going to refrain from involving myself in this discussion, but I think it needs to be pointed out that referees ALREADY should be telling the teams who had penalties assessed against them the reason for such penalties. Every event I refereed in 2005, we did this, and I can't recall our team ever leaving the field having not known why our alliance received penalties, since then.
If you receive a penalty, and the head ref does not explain why to you, my response would be that under no circumstances should you leave the field prior to receiving an explanation.
As to challenging calls via video replay-search for this topic and you'll find numerous threads that discuss it. The consensus seems to be too expensive, too much time, too impractical. Let's face it--high school football is a much more "important" competition in terms of viewership, number of fans attending games, etc. Yet it doesn't have replay. The day video replay is instituted in FIRST will be a very sad one, in my opinion.
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When we went to ask, we fully expected the refs to tell us on whom the penalty was and when. That's the way we remember it from years past. However, they didn't. Since it didn't affect the result of the match, we just left it at that.
In San Jose and Las Vegas, we will probably be more adamant about knowing what the ruling is, especially if it affects the result of the match.
I also completely agree about video reply. It's expensive (you would need many cameras and angles to be able to make conclusive calls) and time consuming, and just not necessary in FIRST, in my opinion.