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Originally Posted by George A.
I know what you mean about being completely baffled as to what a penalty was called on.
While I know this isn't the case everywhere but I know at least at the regionals I announce at, when the head ref gives the scorer the penalties, I makes sure I get the team numbers and the penalties, and announce those when the score is put up.
Like I said, I know this doesn't happen everywhere, but I think it helps the teams at the event.
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George, I know you did an awesome job at relaying the messages but sometimes that info gets misconstrued.
And the messenger gets blamed sometimes.
How's that old saying go? "Don't blame the messenger." lol
Maybe to remedy this, we can take one of the good aspects of professional sports, and have the microphone handed over to the actual (head?) referee (like in NFL games) to explain why the penalty was incurred, and to exactly who?
For example, the microphone gets handed to the referee and he says "10 pt penalty, team xxx, for rule xxx" and then the actual referee can explain it since they made the actual decision.
Then if a team wanted to contest that ruling, standard operator only interactions with referees (not team coaches) would then be followed.
Just a thought to remedy at least one of Madison's issues she brings up.