[TheHotSnakes]

In 2012 my son was a senior with college offers playing in TN at Gatlinburg Pitman. We were winning and they were frustrated so one of their kids held Codi. Codi swiped the kids hands upward and hit his helmet. He was ejected for fighting and lost 2 games of of his senior season.

I wrote letters and in general made alot of noise about it. To no avail. We met college coaches at those games who came there to see him play. I hope they have made the penalty a less and guidelines more clear for actually constitutes a fight.

I once asked an official about this issue. And he basically said it's only a punch when it's intended to be a fighting punch.

It was after a play in a game I was watching. A kid was trying to strip the ball, and in his attempt to punch it out, he missed solid contact on the ball. Ended up grazing the ball, and landed 90% of the force on the kids chin. The opposing team really wanted that penalty and wanted the kid to be thrown out. No penalty, no ejection, because it simply wasn't intended as "that kind" of punch.

I'm sure some officials get it wrong, as is your case, but I do think that is an issue that probably isn't as covered as it should be. Because it has the risk of getting out of hand and causing more issues. I think you can run the risk of ejecting players on very very bad calls, which no one wants. At the same time, there could be a window opened of cheap shots and such things disguised as mistakes and accidents.




Few people acknowledge the good calls and no-calls when it comes to this stuff. But everybody knows about the bad ones.