Faking Being Fouled

[Toren]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I love it when people say "You are not calling the rules as written" but if we were talking about any other situation you would not call a T for a minor violation of the rules. For example, would you call a T on a coach that has a toe out of the box? How many kids have you sent out of the game the very first time their shirts are not tucked in. I get that there is a rule for this, but let us not go overboard and claim we call everything only by the strictest interpretation of rules. No one does that even the people that claim they do. Or they will be labeled as "That Guy."

Peace

Let me clarify, if you ever have to justify why you made a call, to be supported by a rule is about as good as you can get. This rule is pretty clear, if you fake a foul the penalty is an unsporting technical. There is no grey area.

So I'm just stating, if you have the person faking it, there is no other call but a Technical. Now in this particular play, many officials could have had any number of different calls. It wasn't such a clear cut case of faking. But the calling official is clearly supported in calling the T because he obviously had a faking act.

So, for those that said they had him faking it and they no called it, they are clearly just choosing to ignore the rule as written. Now with all that being said, I have never had this situation, so I don't know how I would react. With this conversation under my belt, I hope I come up with a T.