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[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by TimTaylor

My concerns with this specific situation are:

You have to be 100% certain it was a deliberate subversion of fair play. The NFHS has made it clear that there are certain types of actions that are just not part of basketball and should not be permitted. For example, the barking dog distraction, on its own, is not obviously against any rule that I can find...but they want it whistled as a T. There are other examples. I view a purposeful attempt to cheat like this in the same vein....it doesn't belong in the game and should be addressed whether there is a specific rule against it or not. But again, you better be 100% sure.

[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

You have to be 100% certain it was a deliberate subversion of fair play........

I agree completely with this. From what was posted, IMHO, there isn't enough information to be 100% sure it was deliberate - there are other plausible explanations, and good reasons why any coach with half a brain that deliberately planned something like this would not make a statement like that which draws attention to it.

And it still doesn't address the fact that if the officials were doing their job in the first place it would never have happened anyway regardless of their intent.