[ExTexan]

If my aging memory is correct, Foley had a rocking problem also at Kettering and may have even flattened their drive train there.

I harbor no ill feeling whatsoever towards any ref who may or may not have called incidental carrying penalties such as the ones we experienced, but I do feel that the way it was called at the Championship, i.e. you only received a penalty for carrying a ball an extended period of time, was more within the intent of the rule in my opinion.

I'm guilty as charged for calling a fair amount of carrying penalties, but like all my calls, I call 'em as I see 'em and try to be consistent. As all the refs do I believe.

I do think many of the early match calls were very correct because the rules were clear on the definition of carrying and ball magnet designs needed to eliminate that possibility. Without that direction, too much subjectivity is introduced into penalizing a carry. Later in the season, practically every carry I saw was incidental and did not happen consistently because of the design.