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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
So what's the difference between "appropriate" and "accepted"? Seriously, what's the substantive difference.
There are places where calling the T in the OP will relegate you to JH games the rest of your career. That tells you that the coach's behavior is accepted and appropriate, and that the T would be inappropriate. I'm willing to accept there are high schools where this behavior wouldn't be appropriate; but I'm not willing, as a ref, to go out on a limb and make this call.
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The difference is between what is correct (not using the language) - that would be Appropriate. Accepted, on the other hand, is what will be likely to be dealt with by authoritative figures.
For example - Driving several miles per hour over the speed limit is not appropriate, because it is against the law. In some places, like my city, it is accepted, and you are very unlikely to receive a ticket if you are only a few miles above the legal speed limit. In some cities, you get a ticket for 1 mile an hour above the posted limit, and therefore, most people tend to go at or below the speed limit.
I don't see how, under any circumstances, you can say a T is "inappropriate" if it is supported by the rules. I can see the consequences of calling it in the wrong place, causing a liklihood of being assigned to lower level games - but to say it was the wrong call, because it is supported by the rules, is, to me, incorrect.
One of the main reasons for having points of emphasis every year is to address concerns the rules committee has about some rules being blurred, ignored, not enforced, or not enforced consistently. If people just followed them, and enforced them consistently, instead of making many of the non-judgement calls in the rules into judgement calls, we probably wouldn't need to have POE's, or certainly not as many yearly.