Officials Fail to Count Players April 13, 2018 Uncategorized 0 Forum Questions This actually happened: After a time out Team A comes out with 7 players in their offensive zone . My partner blows it in and Team B starts screaming about the 7 players. I concur and blow my whistle to stop the action. I realize what happened and go over to the coach of Team B and tell him that my partner did not count the players as he should have. I continued to throw my partner "under the bus" and eventually tell the coach that no penalty will called and that we will "do it over" seeing that it was our fault in not counting after the TO. The reasoning is obvious here in this situation. Now if it was a quick re-start I would not be so generous. Common sense was my rationale here. Do you agree ? Question File Add new DuBan's Answer: Visual Text Kratz's Answer: Visual Text McCarrick's Answer: Visual Text Riti's Answer: Visual Text I agree with everyone else. Kill the play, fix the crew error, explain to both coaches that WE should have made sure the field was properly set before we originally restarted, count to make sure you’re now good to go, restart, move on. I’ve had this happen to me a couple times where a team had too few to start. Opposing coach said so what, other coach should make sure they had enough players out there. I said it’s our job to make sure the field is set, so it was OUR mistake and needed to be corrected. Tyma's Answer: Visual Text Agree with Glock on this one. As he says, it is unlikely that the guy throwing his partner under the bus would gladly own up to doing it. The one thing I would add to Keith's answer is that <strong>an officiating error is owned by the entire crew</strong> -- you shouldn't say, "Coach, <em>MY</em> end of the boat isn't sinking." Besides, why didn't the thrower count players, too? Our responsibility is to see to it that the right call is made, not to niggle over who should be making what call -- sort that out in a huddle when the opportunity presents itself. Answer File Question Answered Yes No Rule 2
