Crazy ending last night..........

[JRutledge]

This is clearly a technical foul by interpretation. Rule 10-3-7h.

This was added about 3 years ago.

Peace

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is clearly a technical foul by interpretation. Rule 10-3-7h.

Art. 7... Commit an unsporting foul. This includes, but is not limited to, acts or conduct such as:
h. Removing the jersey and/or pants/skirt within the visual confines of the playing area.

The rule says REMOVING the jersey. According to the OP, he said the player untucked and ATTEMPTED to remove it. Never says the jersey actually came off.

Personally, I'd be hard pressed to ring this one up unless the jersey actually came off. It's really one of those "had to be there" situations.

[Junker]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

This is clearly a technical foul by interpretation. Rule 10-3-7h.

This was added about 3 years ago.

Peace

Agreed. I don't like this rule, but it is a rule and the player should know better. Nice job by the crew for having the stones to call it correctly in a big game.

[Adam]

I wonder, again, if this wasn't a blatant example of taunting, making the call that much easier.

[Junker]

I don't have my books with me, but I thought the change a couple of years ago was to take the judgement out of this situation and make it a T any time they untuck their jerseys in the visual confines. Can someone post the entre rule?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Junker

Can someone post the entre rule?

You're in the wrong place for that, teacherman. You'll need to check with Miss Manners' discussion board.

[Cajun Reff]

some clarification from the New Orleans Times-Picayune website fourms:

Albany fouled Carmouche of McMain with 0.1 sec left in the game and McMain up by 1 point. Number 20 of McMain pulled his jersey over his head celebrating the victory and got the technical foul. So Carmouche of McMain still got to shoot two free throws up one, and he missed them both. Then Albany got to shoot the technical free throws and hit one of two thus sending the game into overtime. Now if Carmouche of McMain would have hit his free throws we wouldn't be talking bout this and Mcmain would have won.

I totally agree with you it was an obvious call. The kid from Mcmain was celebrating the win he thought they had, at that moment. You cant blame the McMain coach for that though, that was just a kid's emotions taking over. It was the right call, but like I said in the earlier post. If McMain's #14 hit his free throws with 0.1 secs left we are not even debating this.

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by Junker

I don't have my books with me, but I thought the change a couple of years ago was to take the judgement out of this situation and make it a T any time they untuck their jerseys in the visual confines. Can someone post the entre rule?

See my post in #10 above.