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Bart, there musta been a whistle first- before the push OOB. Otherwise, the foul would have occured during a live ball, and being a live-ball contact foul, by definition would have had to be a flagrant personal foul.
If the push happened after the whistle, as you thought, then it's strictly a judgement call as to what kind of technical foul it is- an intentional "T" or a flagrant "T". I don't think that it has to be "unsporting" also if you call it either. Under NFHS R10-3, Article 7 refers to "unsporting" technical fouls. A separate article- Article 8 - refers to "intentionally or flagrantly contacting an opponent when the ball is dead and such contact is not a personal foul". Iow, by rule, you can say the flagrant "T"(or an intentional "T", for that matter) wasn't really identifed as being "unsporting" according to a strict reading of the rules. There's different rules covering each type of "T"- unsporting and intentional/flagrant..
Jmo.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Aug 22nd, 2005 at 06:43 PM]
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