[Colofornian]

WRONG! If the penalties are called and consequences imposed, then those are the rules, fairly applied. “Cheating” would be doing the crime, but not the time (or in this case, yardage.)

If 22 of you in your neighborhood conspired to max out your cheating re: tax submissions, knowing the odds that only a few of you would be audited, having 2-5 of you accept the "consequences imposed" while the other 17-20 reaped the benefits of that...and shared it with the 2-5 thus audited, then, yup...cheating.

[G Larry]

That’s a lame analogy.

Who said the ref’s were missing things?