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Originally posted by rockyroad
When did I say that the two were unrelated???
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I am the one that stated that the two were unrelated. You said the foul not being called was not the same action that caused the player's injury. Clear as day to me.
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Originally posted by rockyroad
YOU said that...the piling on and the sticking the finger in the eye were the same play, same action...I never said they were two different things...what I did say (and have repeated several times PA Coach) was that the piling on was the foul, not the sticking the finger in the eye...the fact that the piling on was also the cause of the injury made the situation worse.
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I did not say that. I clearly was trying to figure out how a foul and a unrelated injury were about the same thing.
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Originally posted by rockyroad
Come on...if the foul was called you have no one to be mad at...crap happens in games, we all know that...but your star player gets jumped on, there's no foul call, and then as the defender climbs off your star you see he/she is hurt...not gonna bother you, huh???
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Now I am confused. You said that the foul that should have been called was not the same action that injured the player. Now you are saying it was? Which one is it? So if the foul was called the injury would not have taken place? Let us say they called a foul, would that have prevented the injury? If that is the case, to me that is coach speak. I have called fouls and players have gotten hurt and not called fouls and players have gotten hurt (sometimes unrelated to anything I could have called). Coaches always get upset over the injury, despite what actually happen (at least in my experience). I have had players run into teammates and the coach thinks something should have been called. I would assume that the officials that actually did the game, was not concerned about how bad it looked if they felt nothing should have been called. Now you have an opinion and have that right, but they were there and if they felt something should have not been called, that is why nothing was called. And I am sure that the injury did not change their mind. All I am saying, players are going to get injured. Whether something is called or not, they will get injured. If you spend time worrying about players getting injured because you did not call something, to me you have too much to worry about.
Maybe this is my football officials mentality, I have seen very clean hits hurt the one getting hit several times over the years. Basically, sh!t happens. It does not mean that someone did something to cause it, it just means that in a sport were bodies are going to be moving and come in contact with each other, injuries will happen.
Peace