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Originally posted by RickyD
Our state rules clinician gave us the annual basketball rules clinc in late October. The "profanity" issue that says we call a T for unporting conduct if coach or player let out an explicative and we hear it regardless of whether it is directed to the officials or anyone else. One of our basketball officials who is also a football officials asked if this emphasis was to extend to other sports such as football. The clinician stated "football is football" and it is different. He clearly meant that an explicative let loose in a football game would in all likelihood not be treated in the same way.
This seems inconsistent with the larger NFHS intent to rein in the nastiness of the various sports. Opinions??
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Profanity is a POE in the basketball rule book this year. Your state clinician is simply passing along that POE, and telling you and your fellow officials to call it as intended.
Profanity may not be a problem or concern in football, so the FED rulesmakers may not have specifically targeted it like their basketball counterparts did. The bottom line is you do what your state tells you to do, and hope that your fellow officials do the same in the name of consistency.