Local newspaper article headline "BLOWN CALL"

[SteveM]

Game situation:

VGB tournament semi-final, white up 4 when black scores. White has ball on endline for in bounds play and calls time out. Play resumes with white's attempt to inbound and ball is deflected oob by black. Here's where things go wrong. Officials get ball back to white for inbounds play and white player runs endline with no call. White is fouled after inbounding ball with just seconds left and makes 1 of 2. Black coach is screaming up storm says "TRAVELING" should of been called. White wins by 3.

Newspaper article leads with "BLOWN CALL SWINGS IN FAVOR OF CARDINALS". Imagine that, it couldn't have been black's missing "n" number of free throws or shots during course of game!

Officials tell black coach "sorry" but of course nothing can be done.

[Mark Padgett]

If the deflection back OOB by black was due to a kick and the subsequent inbound spot was still on the endline, then the officials were correct in letting white run the endline. This is a new rule change.

The coach yelling "traveling" shows his lack of knowledge of the rules, because if it was a spot throw-in and the inbounder moved off the spot, it's a throw-in violation, not traveling.

You should write the paper and tell them that. Also tell them your favorite section of their newspaper is the corrections column.

BTW - what's a VGB game? Varsity Girls and Boys?

[Edited by Mark Padgett on Jan 9th, 2005 at 02:14 PM]

[tjones1]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett
You should write the paper and tell them that. Also tell them your favorite section of their newspaper is the corrections column.

[SteveM]

My bad, Varsity girls.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett
what's a VGB game? Varsity Girls and Boys?

Varsity Girls Basketball

[tjones1]

This topic has come up on another board. If you are interested. Here it is:

http://www.illinoishighschoolsports....c;f=3;t=003841

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by JugglingReferee

Varsity Girls Basketball

Oh. I thought it meant Varsity Girls Basketweaving.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by tjones1
This topic has come up on another board. If you are interested. Here it is:

http://www.illinoishighschoolsports....c;f=3;t=003841

Typical clueless fans. Typical clueless fan forum. Waste of time trying to figure out what really happened from those yoyos. As an official, you just disregard completely everything that they say.

[thunderbird]

Nothing there including those yoyo fans?

[Rich]

Originally posted by thunderbird
Nothing there including those yoyo fans?

The URL worked for me. I feel dumber having read the thread.

[tjones1]

Originally posted by thunderbird
Nothing there including those yoyo fans?

Thunder, yes, the second URL I posted got pulled cause things got a little to heated, therefore I deleted the post on here.