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Originally posted by Smitty
I think you answered your own question. For you, being called a b!tch might be extremely offensive in a certain context. I think it's fair to most people that if someone makes a personal comment directed at them and that comment includes the f-word, they would find that extremely offensive. That you would not only goes to your point that everyone is different about what offends them and what doesn't. I think a coach of a high school level team or below, representing a school, needs to be held to a higher standard when he's working in the confines of that relationship. The only true means we have to punish such actions is the flagrant foul. If you choose not to use that type of a punishment, that's within your rights as an official. Like most everything else, it's a judgement call.
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I am not telling people that they should handle a situation the way I did. That is a big difference from others that are here. Even JR said that if one official does not penalize this action, it makes it harder on the next officials. Well I see that as crap because I really do not care what the other officials before me do. I am a different person and working with different people than the time before. I have no problem with what happens one night might not be the same the next night. If a coach rolls the dice he might just crap out. That is the chance that coach takes. But I do not like this point of view that I have to do what you do. To me that is your decision when you are in that situation. Just do not ridicule me because I do not feel the same way.
Peace