Acc Champs!

ldmom06
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:04:21 +0000

aah the world we live in now, where everyone thinks there is a link for everything…lol! The unwritten rules have been around since the beginning of the game, most are so generally accepted that it is industry wide and consistently applied. I would venture some ‘rules’, especially at the high school and lower levels may have a regional or local twist to them.

My understanding has always been that the losing coach makes some gesture (pulling starters for one) that indicates he has conceded the game and the winning coach responds by doing whatever it takes to avoid running the score up on them. UNC did get into a bit of a bind earlier in the season when one of our players (don’t remember the game or the player, just the incident…but I think it was maybe Arizona or Florida State?) made points in the last minutes of a blowout game. If I remember correctly, the losing coach had pulled starters before the points. After the game, he asked Coach Roy why he was running up points on him…and Coach Roy apologized. There was quite a bit of criticism in the press about the points too. The final points in the NC State game were not publicly criticized because the clock was running out as Terry was running across the court and his dunk was viewed as more of a celebration of the ACC win, not a desire to rub State’s nose in it. Furthermore, when he scored, UNC was only winning by 7 points and everyone was still playing to win.

My point is if UNC has to take the heat for this sort of thing, so should Georgetown. But I’m straining my ears…and hearing nothing…