Rant: Basketball Announcers

<rant>I've been watching some college basketball lately, I've noticed something about the basketball announcers that always bugs me.

It's early in the second half and a player picks up his fourth foul. In college, a player gets five fouls before he fouls out and can no longer participate in the game. Yet what do the announcers say? "That's four fouls on so-and-so, and he'll have to sit for a while."
Have to sit? Have to sit? No! A player with four fouls does not have to sit! He can play for the rest of the game as long as he doesn't pick up his fifth foul. There's no rule requiring a player to stop playing for a while once he picks up a fourth personal foul.
Now, of course, it's usually good coaching to pull a player with four fouls out (unless the player is a very saavy player, like Iowa State's Curtis Stinson). What the announcers mean, of course, is that "That's four fouls on so-and-so, and the coach is wisely taking him out to keep him from getting his fifth."
Of course, if that's what they mean, why don't they say it? Does it somehow sound cooler to say, "He'll have to sit"? Is it just verbal laziness? I mean, is it really that much harder to say, "That's four fouls on him, and the coach will take him out for a while"? Shouldn't accuracy in description be a goal for any television commentator?
I don't know, and I've spent enough time pondering this, although it does say something about the state of modern society. I'll leave it up to you to deduce what it says.</rant>