TECHNICAL FOUL
The NCAA needs to stop making rules. College basketball fans, get ready to lose your minds! As the season gets ready to tip off, here’s a new atrocity being implemented by the fascistic governing body of college sports. It’s a new “zero tolerance” policy approved by the NCAA in regards to celebration in collegiate basketball games.
The stated reason of the NCAA edict is to “take emotion out of the game.” Great. That’s what’s wrong with college basketball now. Too many people care about it. Today’s Washington Post has the ridiculous details. College refs are being ordered to crack down on ANY show of emotion on the court. The NCAA says technical fouls will be handed out for any offense with “zero tolerance.”
This is literally the dumbest rule in the history of sports. Think not? Well, if the “no emotion” rule were strictly enforced with a technical foul (resulting in free throws for the other side) being awarded, the following plays would have been wiped out:
1990-U-Conn’s Tate George beats Clemson with buzzer beater as Huskies reach Final Four:
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1998-Tiny Valpo upsets #4 seed Mississippi:
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1995-UCLA advances to Sweet 16 (and eventual National Championship) on miracle Tyus Edney coast-to-coast drive:
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1987-Keith Smart gives Bob Knight and Indiana another title with last second shot:
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1983-The biggest offender of all as the late Jim Valvano shows emotion after Lorenzo Charles tips in the winning shot for underdog N.C. State:
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Interpreted literally, every single one of these plays would have been wiped out by the new NCAA rule with the opposing team being awarded free throws. DUMBASS NCAA!
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