Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Had a situation earlier this year and would like to hear thoughts on it. This was an NCAA men's game. The gym where the game is being played has only one large window in it, and the window is directly behind one of the baskets. It is designated as the visitor's basket for the first half. There is a curtain, but it is not drawn, so the sun is coming through.

During warm-ups, the visiting coach gets my attention and says, "That curtain better be open for the second half, too. You better make sure that they leave it open."

His concern obviously was that his team would have difficulty shooting into the sun, and then the curtain would be closed in the second half, making it easier for the home team to see the basket.

My response was that it's simply not up to the officials. It's not a safety issue; it's more like bench location. I told him if he was concerned to let the game management know about it, but that I wasn't going to get involved.

So how would everybody else handle something like this? Should I have gone to the home coach to talk about it? Or is it better to stay out of it? Just looking for thoughts.

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

I would have went to game management myself and gotten them to close the curtain, or made sure the curtain didn't magically close in the second half.

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Yeah, that's why I brought it up. I honestly thought it wasn't really any of my business, but afterward, I didn't like the way it played out. My thought was that if it bothered him, he should've just asked for the curtain to be closed instead of trying to make me monitor it at halftime.

So what do you do if it magically closes at halftime? You gonna hold up the game until somebody opens it?

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

If I told them not to close it damnright we're gonna wait.

Either way if the visiting coach b1tches about it we'll wait for them to open it (but as Mick says by that time the sun will have moved so it's all a moot point... and I've yet to see a gym with a curtain over the window, where was this anyways?).

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

What, no cute picture?

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Apparently not. For some unknown reason, virtually all my posts that had links to pictures have been deleted. Dunno why. :confused: And, strangely enough, the one of Steve Wellmer's grandmother is still there!

Originally Posted by mick

Perhaps that was nearly germane ?