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Old Tue Jul 15, 2014, 10:00am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by RKBUmp View Post
Unfortunately I have seen 2 or 3 cases of opposing coaches going nuts over it. "Our players aren't learning anything if you give them free outs".
"And what do you want me to do, Coach? Not call the outs when the rule clearly says I must? Your beef is with the opposing coach, not me!"

Seriously, if a coach gets that upset and vocal about it, then I'm sure the opposing coach would be more than happy to stop and keep running up the score.
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