[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by gordon30307
Mark,

How can you not make it "not personal per se" and then question my integrity. Are you not a "moderator" and as such I think your reply is quite "unprofessional" from a person in your position.

Have a nice Thanksgiving.

Gordon:

You are missing the point. Before thousands of officials you have stated that you would NOT correctly enforce the rules of basketball if in doing so it would hinder your basketball officiating career. You publicly stated that you would willingly violate the cannons of officiating ethics to further your career. If you are going to publicly announce that you will violate the cannons of ethics of our profession so that you can further your career as a basketball official then you must be prepared to reap what you sowed. If you do not like being publicly taken to task for unethical or unprofessional behavior then don’t go bragging about it. In other words, if you can’t stand the heat then stay out of the kitchen.

I stated earlier that I am not a perfect basketball official but I have officiated basketball at the: boys’/girls’ H.S. level for 34 years; women’s college for 31 years (31 years ago I was the first male to officiate women’s college basketball in the State of Florida and one of the first males in the Southeast), including 18 Div. I playoff games and 20 jr. college playoff games; and men’s college basketball for 12 years. Since 1993 I have officiated over 30 AAU and YBOA boys’ and girls’ national championship tournaments (including 4 YBOA girls’ national title games in the last 5 years) plus one PAL boys’/girls’ national championship (including the boys’ 16U national title game). I sit on four IAABO national committees. I am a rules interpreter for my local officials association and teach its officiating class.

What does the preceding paragraph mean? For one thing it means that I am a bald old geezer who is long in the tooth and has just seen about everything possible until the next new thread really does come up with something I have not seen or heard of before. It also means that I am a crusty old curmudgeon who has the experience, knowledge, and hopefully the wisdom to take a young whippersnapper like you to task for unthical and unprofessional behavior.

I do not expect every official to sit on national committees or be rules interpreters or instructors, but every official should conduct himself in an ethical and professional manner with regard to the profession. If that official cannot do that then he should not officiate.


MTD, Sr.