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[Scrapper1]

I agree with everybody saying that we can't really penalize tactics. But before you go and label this guy an a--hole (oops, too late), he's serious about trying to reduce unsportsmanlike action in scholastic games. He also called out the coach of the HS football team when he left his running back in to set the high school record for rushing yards in a game, even though his team was winning by 60 points or something like that. In that article, too, he wondered if there wasn't some remedy in the rules that the officials should have (could have) applied to prevent an obviously unsportsmanlike tactic. He suggested that the officials could've called an unsportsmanlike penalty every time the winning team did anything other than take a knee or punt. Obviously, we disagree on that; but he's not in the business of busting officials. He's just serious about sportsmanship.

He's not blaming the refs. He blames the coaches. And he correctly berates them when they try to shift the blame off of themselves. He'd like to see officials "do something" about these tactics; but we know we can't.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I agree with everybody saying that we can't really penalize tactics. But before you go and label this guy an a--hole (oops, too late), he's serious about trying to reduce unsportsmanlike action in scholastic games. He also called out the coach of the HS football team when he left his running back in to set the high school record for rushing yards in a game, even though his team was winning by 60 points or something like that. In that article, too, he wondered if there wasn't some remedy in the rules that the officials should have (could have) applied to prevent an obviously unsportsmanlike tactic. He suggested that the officials could've called an unsportsmanlike penalty every time the winning team did anything other than take a knee or punt. Obviously, we disagree on that; but he's not in the business of busting officials. He's just serious about sportsmanship.

He's not blaming the refs. He blames the coaches. And he correctly berates them when they try to shift the blame off of themselves. He'd like to see officials "do something" about these tactics; but we know we can't.

Oh, I get it now. He's a genuinely good guy who's knee-jerk parting shot is at "the guys in the funny shirts" that can't seem to run the world the way HE wants it run.

Sorry scrapple, I aint buying. He obviously realizes there's a rule book somewhere because he thinks the funny shirt guys are not reading all of it. What he lacks is the brain capacity to get that the guys in the funny shirts don't write the books. He should focus his one man crusade on the coaches who demand (or at least condone) this type of stuff and the rules book writers who leave it unaddressed.

[Raymond]

We must be talking about Mr. TMQ. He is one of my favorited columnists but he normally goes way off base when it comes to officiating.

But he's definitely no dummy.