Crazy ending last night..........
 

found this on another board:
This was a second round game in the Louisiana Boys State Playoffs played at Albany HS. Albany HS is in Livingston Parish, just outside of Baton Rouge. McMain HS is in New Orleans, LA

I have no idea what the young man from McMain was trying to accomplish by removing his jersey with time on the clock, but what he did do was cause his team to lose.

Isn't there a difference between "attempts" and "actually does" take it off?
If he untucks, he should be instucted to tuck back in before play starts again, correct?

I can see the T if he succeded to take it off. Right? (No book here)

Wonder if he was bench personnel or in the game?

best I can determine he was in the game, he made a dramatic showing of untucking his jersey

I will have to see if the originator of the thread can clarify a bit, but one would assume that there was an issue in this game with the jerseys coming out and the official had probably warned them. Still a technical that puts a seemingly "decided" game in doubt seems a bit extreme, especially for a playoff game. I will see if i can find out more.

If he took off his jersey on the court during play, there is no question it was a good T. Idiot should have known better.

Further more, if he “made a show” of doing it, it was probably intended as a taunt, as in, “Game over, may as well go home.”

Unless I was there, I would not be willing to call this “extreme.”

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

This was added about 3 years ago.

Peace

Definitely need to know more without passing any judgment on anyone.

Absolutely concur!

And this person will go down in school history as the one who "lost a big game" by doing something stupid and unsporting! He earned it!

yeah I agree 100% with you

I asked for some clarification of the situation on the other board. I am familiar with the rule cited in this thread, we actually had a circumstance this season where we enforced it but it didnt play a direct part in deciding the outcome of the game

still for a playoff game to end on this is pretty amazing to say the least

Nah, they'll blame the refs for making the call.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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