Remember 201-78?

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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.