What I Like About the A-11

[ajmc]

If you were responding to my comment daggo66, I was not referring to advantage/disadvantage or considering the basic intent of a rule. I was referring to those who seem to want to imply some imagined sinister motivation to a foul, to support applying a harsher penalty.

Sometimes judging intent is a necessary part of applying a penalty, but that only goes so far and applies to a limited number of situations like Intentional grounding and some USC situations. Sometimes players, especially at the HS level, just make mistakes or don't execute as well as they are expected. If their mistake calls for a penalty, fine, but there's no need to look for a conspiracy or premeditation to justify applying a harsher penalty. When something happens that calls for a player ejection, it should be crystal clear and apparent where no doubt exists.

[Mike L]

I'm sorry, your time is up. If you wish to continue arguing you must pay.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Mike L

I'm sorry, your time is up. If you wish to continue arguing you must pay.

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[Mike L]

Nice. I thought about going with the abuse dept lines, but realized the stupid git probably wouldn't get it.

[daggo66]

Originally Posted by ajmc

If you were responding to my comment daggo66, I was not referring to advantage/disadvantage or considering the basic intent of a rule.

This is where your disconnect is. The "spirit" of the rule is synonymous with the "intent" of the rule. That is why you see it written as spirit AND intent. Coaches very often get confused reading a rule because they apply basic english or worse yet coach-speak to what they are reading. I always tell them they have to read the definitions first, therefore they can understand the spirit and intent of the rule even if what they read appears to mean something else. In this usage "intent" refers to what the rule makers intended. This has nothing to do with the player's "intent" of his actions which you went on to further explain in your post.