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Originally Posted by Daryl H. Long
... the player can get the message from both me and his coach that such verbiage is unnacceptable and will result in the proper penalty if uttered again.
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Daryl, I'm going to poke a little fun at your response to make a point. No personal affront to you or what I'm sure is your quality job of officiating.
So your stance is that unacceptable language will not be properly penalized the first time, but if uttered again a technical foul is automatic?
This leads me to ask a larger question. Why do people seem to believe that it is proper to fail to issue the proper penalties the first time that infractions of the rules are committed?