How to avoid penalties
 

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.

Among the myriad other "little things" that our local D-I head coach does is to have several officials at each practice. Fouls are charted by a manager & a report is generated for each position coach immediately following practice. Officials are paid a little more than a "free lunch".

The head coach takes a very dim view of players who commit procedural-type fouls, but is slightly more lenient when it comes to contact fouls. He really hates for any of his defensive players to be flagged, good call or not!