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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
I just don't understand this reluctance to call an intentional foul. It seems that there are quite a few officials out there who just won't call one.
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Just speaking for my local area:
When I started HS officiating 10 years ago, the D-1 officials in our local HS association pretty much ran the show. Their philosophy was to ignore coaches unless they were screaming profanities in your face and to not call an intentional foul unless someone was raped and pillaged. It put a lot of pressure on our younger officials to call it the same way. As a result, we managed coaches poorly and rarely called a much-deserved intentional foul.
As the years have gone by, a lot of that "older guard" is gone. The leaders in our group (still some D-1 officials in that group) no longer share those extreme philosophies. I think our local group now manages coaches as well as anyone in the state and for the most part, I think we call intentional fouls when appropriate.