A person I know who officiates high school and small-college football talked to an official who worked the UW-Florida Atlantic game back on Oct. 3.
Remember the fake field goal by UW that went for a touchdown but was called back for unsportsman-like conduct? The written explanation for the call was “substitution deception.”
UW coach Dave Christensen was upset over the call, especially since he told an official prior to the game the Cowboys were going to try something like that and wasn’t told it was illegal. To this day Christensen still thinks the play was legal.
The person I know who talked to the official who worked that game said that Christensen wasn’t told the play was illegal because of the way he explained it prior to the game. Apparently Christensen didn’t say that the guy split wide in the formation (Orlando Arnold) would be in a group of players leaving the field, or that he would be standing along the sideline (even if still in the field of play) facing the field and not the goal line.
Hence no warning was given.
None of this matters now. UW won 30-27, but I found that a little interesting.
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