Video: Official ejects former star players watching game as fans

02/19/12 at 2:46am
Written by dclark

I’ve been meaning to post the video of former North Carolina State stars Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani getting ejected for giving an official a hard time while watching a game AS FANS, and a Tweet by Xavier head coach Chris Mack just reminded me.





From CBSSports.com’s Jeff Goodman:

Quote:It’s time for Karl Hess to go.

The veteran referee tossed former N.C. State stars Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani with about six minutes left in the 76-62 loss to Florida State on Saturday afternoon.

“There were seven or eight different calls we were contesting,” Corchiani told CBSSports.com. “We were yelling, but we didn’t even yell a profanity or even threaten him.”

Hess, who has already worked 74 games this season, declined to comment when approached after the game by an Associated Press reporter. Corchiani said he was with his wife and 11-year-old daughter while Gugliotta and his 14-year-old daughter were sitting next to them in the front row.

“We’re not denying we were all over him, but I’ve been doing that every game I’ve been at since I retired,” said Corchiani, who said he attends just about every N.C. State game. “That’s homecourt advantage. But again, we never used profanity or crossed the line. We were just on him about some of the calls he made.”

Corchiani said that Hess had to game stopped earlier and tried to have another fan ejected. Then after the 6-foot-10 Gugliotta stood out and yelled something at Hess from just a handful of feet away, Hess went to a police officer and had both former N.C. State stars escorted out of the building.

“It was wild,” Corchiani said.

And here was the Tweet from @CoachChrisMack:

Quote:Gugliotta and Corciani thrown out by Hess?! Wow. Back in the day…man was I a Pack fan. Fire and Ice. Googs. Bennie Bolton. #JimmyV

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/sports/2012/...e-as-fans/