[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

GimLet:

In your post #46, you stated that comments by a coach can be unsportsmanlike but cannot be flagrant unless it causes a player to instigate a fight. Therefore if the coach stands in the coaching box and says to his bench personnel in a voice load enough for you that one of your partners is: "a f**king a**hole and I wish one of my players would punch his lights out." That, my young friend, is definately a flagrant techincal foul. Remember if a coach makes comments to bench personnel load enough for the game officials to hear him, he isn't talking to his bench personnel, he is talking to the game officials.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. I am about to make what some people would describe as politically incorrect. BUT, because of the following:

1) In 1974 I was the first male to officiate women's college basketball (both Div. I and JUCO) in the state of Florida and one of the first in the US southeast.

2) I still have friends who officiate Div. I women's BB (including one who has officiated in the Olympics and others that have officiated the Div. I title game and in the WNBA.

I feel qualified to make the statements I am about to make.

I have always been loyal to the women's game even when I was offered the chance to officiate men's Div. III games over 20 yrs ago. But today if given the choice between officiate a women's Div. I game and officaiting a men's Div. III jr. varsity game, I will take the men's game everytime (but the game fee of the women's game would make me think once about taking it, LOL). I believe that the people running the women's side of college basketball do not have a clue about anything especially rules and officiating, and it is reflected in some of the young officials (both male and female) who are buy into their nonsense.