Hal, I get the feeling after reading your posts for the last year or so , & also after reading your book, that you are all about winning at almost any cost, & the more trickery & deception you can use the better???? please tell me this is not so, because your language sure comes off that way. There would be nothing I would enjoy more than seeing a good fundamentally sound team beat a team that is playing in the manner you are describing.
Seen HS basketball team where defense gets in offenses face and yells "ball ball ball" the whole game. ( I find it irritating) Fair?
What about college football where loud stadium noise and the fans ARE a considerable factor, making it where opposing offense cant hear at all at the line of scrimage? Fair
What about basketball fans taunting opposing players with calls of air-ball and brick, and worse.
Even some 10 yr old football teams are taught to talk smack to distract players on line of scrimmage. Pretty classless, but fair?
Baseball catchers talking to batters to distract them too, fair?
ASA fixed that this year with the "no artificial noise maker rule" hopefully all other organization will follow suite.
When coaching first on a pickoff play from the catcher to first with a right handed first basemen I love to yell "BACK" with my runner halfway to 2nd. Some of the best tags are made to that phantom runner on first.