Do technical fouls also count as personal fouls.

Mark is correct. You could look at it this way: If a technical was same as a personal foul, then a player could get 5 technicals before fouling out of the game. If that came to pass, I would retire!!!!

Jack

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by koshennj:
Do technical fouls also count as personal fouls.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Under NF rules - "technically"- NO. (pun intended) But they do count toward the five fouls for disqualification of a player. The semantics sometimes make this confusing, plus older rule books don't have a place in the player fouls section for technicals, so the officials have to remind the scorekeeper to count any technicals toward the five combined personals and technicals for DQ.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jackgil:
Mark is correct. You could look at it this way: If a technical was same as a personal foul, then a player could get 5 technicals before fouling out of the game. If that came to pass, I would retire!!!!

Jack<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not a problem, Jack. Just call the first one flagrant and they're toast. http://www.refereeforum.com/ubb/wink.gif