Leach and the finger

The Big 12 hit Leach with a $10,000 fine for the comments on officiating. Now I didn't agree with the comments, but shouldn't he have the right to criticize? After the NBA ref thing, these stories from tennis about players being offered money to tank matches, not to mention boxing in general, why can't a college football coach say "that was a bad call"? Now Leach went farther than that, and a fine is probably in order. But the largest fine ever levied by the conference? And double the largest ever at that? I do think a coach that gave up 59 should be concerned with a lot of things besides bad calls. But 10,000 seems steep to me.

If you missed the coach flipping off the other sideline story, here's the link Utah is up 43-0 and kicks an onside. They get it and go up 50-0, which was the final score. The Wyoming coach flipped off the Utah sideline for running the play. A couple things here. The fact that we know about this is amazing. Coverage is incredible these days to the point this game was even on TV. But with Gameplan, lots more are on TV (did you ever think that without Gameplan, maybe we never would have seen the Miami Fl-Int. fight last year?) So the coach shouldn't have done it and will be fined. Fine. But what about the other coach? He gets nothing. Yeah he admitted it was wrong, but so what. He still did it. Maybe we shouldn't start fining coaches for plays that they call. But if flipping into the end zone and finger pointing are taunting, what was this? Wasn't he showing up the other team? I don't like all the talk about running up the score, especially in the pros, but aren't there lines? You can run any play you want. But if you are cracking down on taunting, isn't going for an onside kick up 43-0 at least worth a 15 yard penalty so the stupidity of it can be pointed out?