Well, believe it or not, debating a call that I did not make and that I can not change seems like a waste of my time.
Not a single one of you that is debating this three days later has ever been in the position of this official and likely never will be.
Whether you like it or not, and I am guessing many of you will not like it, you have the ability to watch a replay multiple times, freeze frame whenever you like and then decide that the officials erred. The official on the mat does not have that luxury. He gets one bite of the apple and has to make a snap judgement on what he just saw. I think most of you would agree that this entire action took well less than one second.
Can he get it wrong? Certainly but I am very sure that he felt it was correct at that moment. Maybe later he might feel differently but maybe he is still good with his call. I don't know and I don't care because nothing is going to change.
Then you get into endless debating over the definition of the words "hurdle", "vault", and other nonsense like did he go over the top or off to the side? The official certainly did not have time to think about any of this. Pretty easy from behind a laptop.
Now of course this will lead to more "he is just sticking up for another official". The truth is that I have a view, like all of you, from a fixed position. It is NOT the view the official had and that is the one he has to use.
I will tell you that even when I am observing an official, I almost never judge the actual call. Instead I ask them, what was your thinking when you made the call? When you think about it, and if you are honest, we learn far more from mistakes than we ever do from being "right" all the time.
With that, carry on.