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Old Wed May 11, 2005, 12:34pm
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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
I guess that adds clarification to the debate about whether we should automatically call an intentional foul based on the coach yelling at his team to "FOUL!" Whether an intentional foul is called or not should be determined by the actions of the player who commits the foul.
Wasn't it just 2 or 3 years ago that the fed was complaining that 'strategic fouls' only served to make the game too long? And didn't they also tell us a coach yelling "FOUL 'EM!" is an automatic intentional?

The least the committee could have done was admit they completely reversed their stand on this.

I'm glad the fed has finally adopted this interpretation btw.

Just for the record-- from the 2000-01 POE's:
-"Acts that must be deemed intentional include when a coach/player says watch, we're going to foul".

I think that very few officials followed that, anyway, as long as the defender made some kinda half-a$$ed attempt to play the ball. Now the FED recognizes a "strategic" foul and is telling us to call it the way that most of us were already calling it. That doesn't include the few officials that lack the testicular fortitude to ever call an intentional foul, no matter how obvious it is- which is why an IF is a POE again this year.
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