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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
When did they do that?
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4 or 5 years ago the fed declared that the strategy of fouling to stop the clock was evil and must be stopped by calling these end of game touch fouls intentional. In fact, they came right out and said if a coach or team is yelling "foul 'em! foul 'em!!" you *must* call an intentional foul. Not being as dumb as they look, coaches started using a code word, shouting something like "red! red!! red!!!" instead of "foul 'em!!".
As I said this was so universally accepted that 2 years later (I think 2 years ago now?) they completely reversed their position and said in print that fouling to stop the clock at the end of the game is a respected strategy that is available to coaches but they must instruct their players to foul in the correct manner.