Razor Ramon

(03-10-2021 09:57 AM)Wear Purple Wrote:  I watched the miraculous comeback and win at the buzzer by Notre Dame last night over Wake Forest. During ND's final run over the last 5 minutes, Irish Head Coach Mike Bray was constantly outside the coaches box cheering on his team to defend on the other end of the court - and he was actually out on the floor about 3 to 5 feet in most cases. Wake's head coach Steve Forbes did the same a couple of times, but not as noticeable as Bray.

By the way, I'm not taking a shot at those guys. What they were doing seems perfectly fine to me. They weren't gaining any kind of advantage. They weren't blatantly being a pest to anybody. And, I'm willing to bet as you watch more hoops over March you'll see more and more of this and think to yourself as I did last night watching Bray how ridiculous it is to T up a head coach for being slightly outside of the coaches box and the inconsistency of "enforcing" such a nebulous rule.

Hey, if HCMB had been up near midcourt multiple times or 6 feet out on the court more than once or the refs had counseled him on it with previous warnings and such, then no excuses. But, I'll bet everything I have in my bank account right now that none of those happened or were the case. Just an asinine set of decisions by refs to decide games when the games should be decided by the kids. I appreciate referees 90% of the time. I never ever beyatch about 50-50 calls (charging vs blocking) or the like. This however deserves some level of investigation, discipline, etc., due to being so outside the norm.

Let’s call it for what it was- a Horrible T and then after the fact based on the reaction they used the coaching box technicality as cover.