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Funny how life works… had a opportunity to hear Steve Shaw (national coordinator of officials) speak Monday night in Athens…

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… and part of his presentation was a video Q&A of targeting. He’d show an actual game situation, have the audience vote as to whether it was targeting or not, and then reveal the answer.

The audience was very divided on almost every call; demonstrating the difficulty in applying the targeting penalty.

Shaw did explain how the actual qualifying criteria is largely concerned with a 6” circle at the crown of the defender’s helmet. There are other considerations, however, that’s the one that is used most often by the replay officials.

While I hated it last night, I rightly predicted the replay results based on Shaw’s explanation.
 
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