How to avoid penalties

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

We put on a new rules clinic at mid-field each pre-season at scrimmages with the teams. I've yet to see it stop players from fouling.

Cute story, officials probably get a free lunch out of it, but I doubt it sinks in very deep with the players anymore than what the professor said about the baroque period in Music 101 last Tuesday.

This should not be surprising. Fouling is not anything players try to do, except for a few hotheaded contact & non-contact fouls. Avoiding fouls is like any other skill in the game, i.e. something you can do only so well.