Duke-VaTech player punched in throat

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by fiasco

I quoted it because the flagrant rule explicitly allows for penalizing contact that is not intentional in nature, but is nevertheless severe in nature.

You are the one who brought up intent, as if that's a pre-requisite for a flagrant foul. It is not.

Yes, but if someone runs into someone, we do not start penalizing them for fouls if it is clearly unintentional or not something reckless. The guy was kind of in the wrong spot when coming up the court. So yes intent does not matter, but it kind of matters when nothing was doing to hurt or strike the other player and the player let up when he realized who was in front of him. It would have been the same if the backed up and ran into the opponent.

Peace

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Yes, but if someone runs into someone, we do not start penalizing them for fouls if it is clearly unintentional or not something reckless. The guy was kind of in the wrong spot when coming up the court. So yes intent does not matter, but it kind of matters when nothing was doing to hurt or strike the other player and the player let up when he realized who was in front of him. It would have been the same if the backed up and ran into the opponent.

Peace

Thanks, JRut. That's helpful context.

[Multiple Sports]

Just spoke with the NCAA Rules Editor. Officials were correct. Good no call.