And where exactly are we supposed to be browsing to?

Edit: for those who were curious, it happens at 6.2 seconds left in 2nd half.

First thing I noticed is the guy going up for the shot traveled.

Thank you for getting this out of the way...now we can get back to the real discussion at hand.

It is secondary to the main discussion, yes, but seriously, it's there. Airborne player catches the ball and lands left, right, left.

Secondary? It's not even tertiary or quaternary. It's not even on the radar. Again, thank you again for the obligatory travel post. The quota has been met, and now we can get back to the real discussion at hand.

Here's the situation being discussed:

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One thing for sure, anything the fan said to set Smart off would have been heard by several people. If it was racial, I hope Tech does the right thing.

From an ESPN report on the game:

Big 12 coordinator of officials Curtis Shaw told ESPN that the officials don't have jurisdiction to eject a player who is involved in an altercation with a fan.

"There is no precedent for that," Shaw said. "Our rules are for flagrant (foul) 1 or 2. We don't have grounds for dealing with a fan. We don't have a rule to get involved when the player is involved with a fan. We don't know what was said. The official, Doug Sirmons, didn't know what was said."

Shaw said anything involving a fan is up to the host school.

"That's up to the security of the home team and the conference," Shaw said. "We've never had a fan with a player incident before."

Since they haven't had an incident before, of course there would be no precedent. I would have been ok if they had set one and tossed the player and the fan. That is just completely unacceptable behavior from the player, but it's obvious that the fan said something to provoke the action. Having done it himself, I'm sure Mr. Shaw can't get that upset at his officials for removing fans. ;)

I have to wonder what earned the T then. Judging by the timing, it's something he said to the ref.

Just perusing the rule book, trying to find something that might fit:


I find it interesting that fighting does NOT specifically state it has to involve 2 players against EACH OTHER.

I'm still thinking that someday the light will go on -- nobody at that level is praised or rewarded for how well they can spot those kind of travels. The left foot touches almost simultaneously with the gather. Nobody's calling that. I'm not calling that in a boys HS game. It's too fine of a nit to pick.

Did someone steal your account and post that observation as a parody? :D

In other sports, this would be the same thing. You're not going to eject a player in football or baseball for their interactions w/ a fan. I have no problem w/ no ejection mainly because there's no rule support to eject.

You can see the guy saying, "I'm sorry about that", and holding his hands up. He just can't do that.

My guess.
1. Fan says something offensive while Smart is down.
2. Smart confronts fan.
3. Fan says something dismissive, and Smart responds physically.