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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
In a summer ball tourney, when the director tells you to ignore or "modify" a rule, ask him (or her - with deference to Juulie) what other rules they want you not to enforce.
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You know, most of the tournaments I've coached in always had some rule modifications. But they were reasonable to keep the games moving along - like 1&1 after ten fouls, running clock modifications, shot clock and overall time modifications (e.g. 14 minute halfs), etc. We always received a summary sheet stating the use of NCAA rules with the following modifications (as listed)...
In 18 years of coaching however, I never saw any modifications of sportsmanship, decorum, and profane language. Would love to see a TD try to tell you that those rules wouldn't apply to his tourney. Yep, we're gonna let the kids and coaches, aw hell the officials and fans too, swear like a bunch of drunken bikers, because we think its a good idea.