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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
NCAA 10-7-6 and 10-4-1(f) both prohibit bench personnel from inciting undesirable crowd reactions.
Q1. Has anyone ever called this or seen it called?
Q2. Does this also apply to the head coach and/or players?
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I guess my question is, is a loud cheer an undesirable crowd reaction? A BS chant, a "ref you suck chant," throwing things on the floor, those are undesirable crowd reactions. Getting a previously (and traditionally) loud crowd back up to the megadecibel level when a couple of calls have your team holding its head down and the crowd silenced may look kind of nasty when you do it with a POd look on your face (and right after getting a T), but is it over the line? Again, there was no booing, no nasty chanting, and nothing thrown on the floor, just an incredibly loud group scream that clearly re-energized the Duke team and may have allowed them to maintain their momentum and add to their big lead rather than sleepwalking through a couple of possessions and resuscitating Gtech.
Fri Jan 11, 2002, 01:09pm
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