NHSF "intentional" vs NCAA "flagarent" terminology

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I see. I would just stick with telling him it was an elbow to the face and you considered it excessive.

There it is. "In high school, Coach, excessive means intentional."

As for the wording itself, I'm particular with words myself, and I get that intentional doesn't require intent (seems counter-intuitive), but IMO, it still beats "flagrant 1" and "flagrant 2." There are 400,000 words in the English language ("and seven of them you can never say on television" -- George Carlin), so you'd think they could come with a synonymous word that could differentiate a hard foul from a disqualifying foul.