Cheerleader T Almost Costs Louisville Game....

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I understand what happened and the rule reference. But read the rule again. The technical foul is for "DELAYING the game". This cheerleader did not do that. The clock had already expired and the horn had apparently sounded. So there was going to be a delay anyway, while the officials fixed the clock.

The cheerleader's actions do not fall under the rule you cited.

Agreed, but this will be a good (and cheap) lesson to cheerleaders everywhere to leave the ball alone.

I do wonder, though, whether they would have called this T if a player had launched the ball like that.