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Originally posted by Jimgolf
When you are up by 20-something, why do you care that the foul is a common, intentional or flagrant, as long as some foul is called?
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I have to disagree with this. I have found that it makes a difference when you are involved highly physical games, especially blow-outs, that the properly applied technical, flagrant, or intentional foul is the best way to diffuse contentious situations. Especially in less formal settings, like Adult Rec league or AAU, you can't always depend on the coaches to exercise the requisite control of their players and/or fans.
Though we, as officials, shouldn't be responsible for knowing all the inner-workings of a team's psyche, we should however, as part of our game management, know the general environment in which we are officiating. We should know that in a particular game there may be a potential for violence.
[Edited by BadNewsRef on Feb 27th, 2006 at 12:49 PM]