UGA-TAMU Blarge

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

... the ones who fail to do the basic fist up in the air foul signal first.

Worked with a fairly new (but not a rookie) partner last week who almost always failed to stop the clock with either a fist, or an open hand. Drove me nuts. Sometimes I started to initiate a switch (and identifying a possible free throw shooter) and then discovered it was a violation. Other times I held back on the switch and then had to make a delayed switch for a foul (and not knowing who the free throw shooter might be). Thank God we luckily avoided any conflicting preliminary signals.

While there are many things that I look for in a good partner, one is that, as the non-calling official, I want to almost immediately know "What happens next?".

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

NFHS and NCAA Men's Rules have ajudicated this play as a Double Foul originally per a Note in the Rules and later through an Casebook Play (NFHS)/Approved Ruling (NCAA Men's) for well over 60 years. While the NCAA Women's Rules have always (with apologies to the late J. Dallas Shirely) ajudicated this as either a Block or a Charge, in the manner that Bob Jenkins as stated, originally through a Note in its CCA Officials Manual and now through an Approved Ruling.

I have held (since the 1971-72 school year when I first started officiating) that the NFHS/NCAA Men's Ruling is 100% incorrect and the NCAA Women's Ruling is 100% correct and the NCAA Women's protocol for the Play is the correct to handle such a Play.

By Rule, it is impossible to have a 'blarge'. Either: (a) B1 has Obtained (NFHS/NCAA Women's)/Established (NCAA Men's) a LGP or (b) B1 has NOT Obtained (NFHS/NCAA Women's)/Established (NCAA Men's) a LGP. (a) and (b) can NOT happen simultaneously! It is 100% impossible for (a) and (b) to happen simultaneously!

If (a) occurs then A1 has committed a Charging Foul and if (b) occurs then B1 has committed a Blocking Foul.

And for the 46 years that I officiated boys'/girls' JrHS/HS basketball and for the 15 years that I officiated men's jr. college basketball I pre-gamed 'blarges' out of existence in my games.

MTD, Sr.

[johnny d]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

l I pre-gamed 'blarges' out of existence in my games.

MTD, Sr.

This is false. You can talk in your pregame for hundreds of hours. It will not stop certain officials from having too fast of a whistle outside their primary while going directly to their preliminary signal. You cannot absolutely pregame anything out of existence. You were just lucky to have never had a blarge. The only other possibility is that you were able to convince all of your partners to ignore the NCAAM rules and adjudicate the play using your preferred rule set. Which means there were blarges in your game you just did not have the courage to adjudicate them correctly.