Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 01:28 AM
Alright then, name a team that plays hard year in and year out but never crosses the line and plays dirty.
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 04:05 AM
Dutch Fork High school girls
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 04:08 AM
I have a theory that from the perspective of the majority of observers, the main difference between a team that plays dirty and one that plays hard is the color of their jerseys.
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 10:50 AM
Coach Chass is absolutely right. There was a famous study done in the 1950s based on a particularly rough football game between Princeton and Dartmouth.
"After showing a film of the game, Princeton students ‘saw’ the Dartmouth team make over twice as many rule violations as were seen by Dartmouth students. The researchers interpreted this as a manifestation of selective group perception. They interpreted these results overall as indicating that, when encountering a mix of occurrences as complex as a football game, we experience primarily those events that fulfill a familiar pattern and have a personal relevance to us."
Read more: http://www.experiment-resources.com/selective-group-perception.html#ixzz1Ijqru5k2
In other words as parents, coaches, players, and fans we are very unlikely to "see the same game" if we are aligned with opposite teams.
"After showing a film of the game, Princeton students ‘saw’ the Dartmouth team make over twice as many rule violations as were seen by Dartmouth students. The researchers interpreted this as a manifestation of selective group perception. They interpreted these results overall as indicating that, when encountering a mix of occurrences as complex as a football game, we experience primarily those events that fulfill a familiar pattern and have a personal relevance to us."
Read more: http://www.experiment-resources.com/selective-group-perception.html#ixzz1Ijqru5k2
In other words as parents, coaches, players, and fans we are very unlikely to "see the same game" if we are aligned with opposite teams.
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 11:02 AM
Leave it to an Ivy leauge school to conduct a study on what everyone already knows 
Wonder how the numbers turn out if you run groups of refs thru the same sessions?
Which is another factor/question in the whole dirty vs. hard story
Do some schools/coaches push the players to play to the whistle (foul type)/yellow card and then to back down after the refs show a lack of tolerance for that type of play, and of course if he refs lets it go then the coches/players play harder trying to find the limit?
Wonder how the numbers turn out if you run groups of refs thru the same sessions?
Which is another factor/question in the whole dirty vs. hard story
Do some schools/coaches push the players to play to the whistle (foul type)/yellow card and then to back down after the refs show a lack of tolerance for that type of play, and of course if he refs lets it go then the coches/players play harder trying to find the limit?
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 12:36 PM
Well said!
Re: Dirty vs. Hard - 04/06/11 01:00 PM
#Pause