Coach yelling FOUL THEM

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Jeremy Hohn
Sorry Dan, not in my games..if that is what they want, maybe that is something that can be addressed in the pregame meeting with the coach when you have him/her sign the books. Maybe have them use a code word like "red" or something..

Sure, this is all great. But a couple of things:

- you said "You need to know what the definitions of common and intentional according to the national federation rule book states." My only point is the fed has been beating up
a lot of people about this specific case (coach yelling
"foul him!") and they insist this be called intentional.
You can ref with common sense or you can go by the letter
of the law, but ya can't do both!

- I would never presume to tell a coach how to coach his
team, or how I expect the game to go during a pregame.
Again, the fed has been sending this message down to the
coaches as well as us and if they don't get it, well, they
don't get it.

I will admit that during a game late last year a coach went
nuts that I called an intentional because he was literally
jumping up & down, yelling "foul him! foul him now!"
He wanted to know why I called the intentional, giving me
that "it's a part of the game, you can't do that, blah blah"
I told him that by now all the *good* coaches I know
have a codeword they use at the end of the game so they
don't foolishly get their team in trouble. That ended
that conversation.