thanks. insert "the ball was when" in front of "the infraction happened". and is what i meant to say. and in the spirit of fast restarts, it's never perfect but in this case was on a parallel line.KingPrat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:28 pmThe wing line on each side is 10 yards, and the whistle is blown with the RIT player still within the wing line. Salisbury player dropped the ball about 10 yards past where the interference happened, and that's where the restart should and did occur.wgdsr wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:55 am but the restart whistle was literally 13-14 yards from where the infraction happened, a yard or 2 over the line. it was egregious. the ref running has nothing to do with anything. you can't expect salisbury to be able to play the ball when the guy is at a full sprint 13-14 yards downfield before a whistle blows.
The rule reads that restart should happen " in the same relative position where the ball was when play was stopped." Has nothing to do with where the actual foul happened.
so 10 yards? 11? if inside the wing? at a sprint to the cage. that's not the same relative position nor is it close.
what berkman potentially could have done (it's in nfhs rules, maybe in nc$$) is with a timeout in his pocket challenged the interpretation of a rule. if he had one or 2 refs of 3 that were made to think about what just happened and agreed with him, get a new restart.