Free Throw Disrupted By Fan

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

As I have stated before I am a very firm believer in NOT charging fans with TFs. No good can come from it 99.999,999,999% of the time.

There are some leagues in that State up North (Sorry StripedYooper but GO BUCKEYES!!) where the boys' and girls' JV teams of schools A and B play at the same school on one night and the VAR teams play at the same school the next night like one Class C and D league did in the LP a couple years ago and the same crew of officials will officiate both games on a given night. This is the only reason that I can assume for the game officials knewing that the fan was a member of the VAR team, meanng that he could have been in his warm-ups because the boys' game was the second game of the evening. And I am only presuming here but this type of conduct does make for a dicey situatioin for the game officials.

I have officiated for 44 years and luckily I have never been in a situatioin where one would even make the suggestion that a team's fan should be charged with a TF. The MAC for a number of years had a problems with some of its member colleges whose fans would throw rolls of toilet paper onto the floor the first time its team would score and the league mandated that the team be charged with a TF. That ended that nonsense very quickly..

Alright, I have added my two cents to the situation.

MTD, Sr.