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Originally Posted by JRutledge
I could not pass on this one.
Doris Burke said, "There are too many charges in college basketball." Then she went onto say, "Officials need to call the game as the rules instruct them to."
All of this was after the fact when the officials in the UConn-WVU game there was a clear pass and crash where a player was knocked to the floor.
I know John Adams just dropped his head if he heard that live. 
Peace |
I was watching when Burke said that too and almost fell off my couch. I said to myself - out loud
- basically she's telling us kids should lose a method of playing defense and offensive players should be able to trample defenders on the way to the basket.
It's bad enough basic traveling violations aren't called at the men's D-I level (the topic of another thread) which makes playing defense that much harder. Now you want to take away drawing charges too? If there were eight PCs in the first half of Duke/NC maybe the offensive players needed to come up with a new plan?
One commentator I
do like when it comes to stuff like this is Len Elmore. He's more than willing to call a foul a foul - and vice versa - probably because he was a good defender even in the NBA.