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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Ed, that's a good comment. If the officials were to say that they simply missed the first call, then that is an explanation with which I would not have a problem and any coach would have to simply accept.
Furthermore, I would never advocate purposely failing to penalize a rule infraction because an earlier call was missed. As you note, two wrongs don't make a righht.
However, it is important for officials to have good game awareness and be cognizant of what plays have occurred and what decisions have been made so far in a contest. Regarding the grey area of unsporting behavior which involves a great deal of discretion and judgment, my position is that once a crew sets the standard for behavior in game that it should be consistently applied throughout.
It seems that UCLA has a legitimate case that it wasn't in this game.
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So in the name of consistency this player has a free pass to yell like this because they let the first one go?
geeze...
I would bet it happened something like this:
Player yells on dunk
Official quietly tells him to knock it off
Player yells on dunk
Official T's him.