My two cents
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Player A87 drops and pass and quietly mutters a profanity to himself.
Inform the coach and let him handle it.
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Player A87 drops a pass and yells at the top of his lungs something profane about the fact that he dropped the pass.
Anyone else hear it? If so, flag for USC. If not, let the coach know and let him handle it.
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Player A7 gets into A87's face after A87 drops and pass and calls him a racial slur.
Flag - USC and let the coach know and let him handle it.
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Player B23 gets into A87's face and makes fun of A87 for dropping a pass.
Flag - USC. Let the coach know and explain to him that I have already given him the opportunity to fix it.
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Team A is in the huddle and A7 (trying to pump up his team) yells something profane about the other team or utters a racial slur about members of the other team.
Flag - USC. Let the coach know...
I understand I didn't have any ejections here, but my thought process has been to give the coach every opportunity to correct this type of situation before going to an ejection or flag. In my very, very humble opinion, I think something should be said that all officials are not consistent when handling profanity or slurs (although, it is agreed that we should be). What may bother one official, may not bother another (as evident in the answers here). Letting the coach handle something that may or may not bother us is a lot easier to be consistent with.
Personally, I have a little bit of patience for profanity and ball players. I have no patience for slurs of any kind. However, that being said, the coach may not know me and I want to give him that chance to fix something that he can control and I cannot...
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