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Here's My Email Reply to Les...
Les:
I am a high school basketball official in the midwest, and just finished reading your 2/13 article about your daughter's basketball coach receiving a technical foul. Here's my feedback to you...
If your account is accurate, I agree that the official was unwarranted in what he said about watching your daughter's feet when he passed by the coach.
However, I can assure you, that if any coach (male or female) tells me to "not be a smart ***," I will bring out the T immediately. We're taught by our state's high school athletic association to not tolerate any profanity from players or coaches, and that comment would certainly pass for profanity in my book. We officials cannot control what a coach says to his/her players, but we are obligated to penalize profanity when we hear it publicly.
It's easy for you journalists to pass judgement while sitting in the stands. But put on the stripes for a year and see if your perspective doesn't change.
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JAdams
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