End of Babies on the Bench?
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The NCAA has decided to try to put an end to head coaches acting like two-year-old girls on the basketball sideline for the upcoming 2007-2008 season. On the eve of the day basketball practices can begin for both men and women’s NCAA teams across the country, the leading collegiate athletic association has announced that technical fouls will be issued to bench participants more freely. Some infractions that will warrant a technical foul without warning include disrespectfully addressing an official or attempting to influence an official's decision, using abusive or profane language, taunting an opponent, inciting undesirable crowd reactions and coming onto the court without permission of an official to attend to an injured player. The college association also has given extra incentive to officials that are consistent with giving out penalties for such behavior.
In my opinion this has been something that should have been taken care of years ago. It is all too familiar of a scene to see a man that is hired to teach young men how to play a game acting like monkeys on the sidelines when an official makes a call that in unbeneficial for the particular coach. Coaches such as Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski have been notorious for language that would even make Eminem blush. Not only is this behavior immature for men who are paid handsomely but it also sets a terrible example for their players and anyone who can read lips half-way decent. I can understand that these men aren’t perfect, there will be times when coaches, with high expectations to win, lose their cool. However, this behavior is exploited far more than it should while referees have let it slip over the past several decades. It will be interesting to see how the NCAA game officials respond to their new responsibility. I applaud the NCAA for setting a firm guideline in an attempt to eliminate such embarrassing behavior on the benches of college basketball courts, now if only they could get the whole college football postseason thing figured out. I guess we can only expect the cash-cow that is the National Collegiate Athletic Association to do one task at a time.
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In my opinion this has been something that should have been taken care of years ago. It is all too familiar of a scene to see a man that is hired to teach young men how to play a game acting like monkeys on the sidelines when an official makes a call that in unbeneficial for the particular coach. Coaches such as Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski have been notorious for language that would even make Eminem blush. Not only is this behavior immature for men who are paid handsomely but it also sets a terrible example for their players and anyone who can read lips half-way decent. I can understand that these men aren’t perfect, there will be times when coaches, with high expectations to win, lose their cool. However, this behavior is exploited far more than it should while referees have let it slip over the past several decades. It will be interesting to see how the NCAA game officials respond to their new responsibility. I applaud the NCAA for setting a firm guideline in an attempt to eliminate such embarrassing behavior on the benches of college basketball courts, now if only they could get the whole college football postseason thing figured out. I guess we can only expect the cash-cow that is the National Collegiate Athletic Association to do one task at a time.
Read more at www.poosnews.com