[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by ChuckElias

I hope I don't sound thin-skinned, but this kind of post is what set me off once before with Eli (eroe). I'm sure that the intent is not to "big time" anybody, but it sounds like you're saying, "Come on guys, stop being such babies. It's time to grow up and start thinking like college officials". It just rubs me wrong.

Who cares if tony is talking about high school or college? TH's point, and I think he's right, is that if the ACC commissioner told his officials to T Coach K every time he loudly dropped an F-bomb, he would stop doing it. That's all.

We all understand that for whatever reason, it's accepted for the big time guys to curse, even at the officials. We see it all the time and it's let go. We understand that. The point is merely that if they made it clear that it wouldn't be tolerated, it would go away -- or the coaches would be sitting in the locker rooms. Can anybody disagree with that? And more than that, wouldn't that be a good thing?

Chuck

As I have stated previously, what the coach said in the orginal posting is a flagrant foul no matter what the level of play. I am a structural design engineer has has been on or around construction site for most of my life. I can swear with the best of them. If you hair is straight I will can curl it; if you are bald I can make it grow; if you have hair I can make it fall out; you can see where I am going with this sentence. When I am on a construction site I can hold my best with any construction worker (by the way for all of you constructions workers, my father was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters for over fifty years when he passed away). In fact my friends will tell you that my language is quaitly colorful. The point is that a sporting event (I know that the NBA/WNBA is entertainment, but that is another story), is no place for inappropriate language, especially at the college level and above, because the players and coaches are all college educated and society norms expect that the people involved will conduct themselves as ladies and gentlemen. I am completely baffled why an official would not eject a coach for what was said in the original posting. This is the type of conduct that makes it harder for the officials that come afterword to do their jobs. Sometimes as officials we are our own worst enemies, and this is a good case in point.