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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
From an ESPN report on the game:
Big 12 coordinator of officials Curtis Shaw told ESPN that the officials don't have jurisdiction to eject a player who is involved in an altercation with a fan.
"There is no precedent for that," Shaw said. "Our rules are for flagrant (foul) 1 or 2. We don't have grounds for dealing with a fan. We don't have a rule to get involved when the player is involved with a fan. We don't know what was said. The official, Doug Sirmons, didn't know what was said."
Shaw said anything involving a fan is up to the host school.
"That's up to the security of the home team and the conference," Shaw said. "We've never had a fan with a player incident before."
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Since they haven't had an incident before, of course there would be no precedent. I would have been ok if they had set one and tossed the player and the fan. That is just completely unacceptable behavior from the player, but it's obvious that the fan said something to provoke the action. Having done it himself, I'm sure Mr. Shaw can't get that upset at his officials for removing fans.
