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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1023684, member: 2350"]
I agree completely with that, PH. It began with the ability to go to the video replay if you were unsure, but now they default to it in almost every possible situation. I think the big problem again there is television. The producers and announcers replay and dissect the call almost immediately in full public view. And the referees have no opportunity to explain their interpretations, and the TV crews just make them all look bad so much of the time. So now in the last two minutes they blow the whistle and head for the TV monitor. It's freaking awful. I think it was in the Wisconsin semi that we spent 4 minutes just to go with the original call? JM&J.

The whole elbow thing is PC gone right out of control. Yes, I'm completely in favor of safety for the kids. And if some one gets popped, then let's have a look. But spending 3 and 4 minutes trying to decide if a glancing contact was a "flagrant foul" is utter BS. Kids need to learn this, "Don't play defense with your face." The current interpretation rewards kids for doing precisely that. It makes me want to just scream.

And never has so much time been devoted to something so inconsequential as the GD shot clock. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've had to stop play and adjust the shot clock from 16 seconds back to 18, say, and then after  the ball comes in the first kid jacks it right away.
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