Video: Brutal Flagrant Fouls Not Called In High School Basketball Game
Published: 5th Jan 12 1:43 pm
Basketball officials have long been reviled for missing obvious calls. The referees in the a high school basketball game in Washington have now been sprung to the forefront of terrible officiating. In the contest between Connell and Highland, the refs missed multiple brutal foul calls and now Connell’s Cole Vanderbilt looks like the dirtiest player in America.
The video has sparked outrage across the nation as the Highland players could have been seriously hurt. Not one of these fouls was called correctly and these refs should either be suspended or fired. The protection of athletes in high school sports should be a priority. These refs certainly didn’t make it one.
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Terrible officiating and coaching.
Get rid of the offending players, coach and officials… including permanent sanctions and/or fines, strip Connell of all wins for the year in which these players played, not allowing the players to play ANY sport, and not allowing Connell to compete for a few years in any sports, especially basketball. That might start to send an appropriate message in response to this unacceptable behavior.
The coach needs to be fired, and prevented from ever coaching again (perhaps benefiting from some counseling as to what is and is not acceptable in high school or any type of sports).
The officials need to be fired and never be allowed to officiate at any sport of any sort, perhaps even face disciplinary actions.
The students from Connell need to be removed from the team, suspended, and turned over to juvenile authorities… because they appear to be incorrigible, and, the parents, at least one grandparent, the coach and school, seem to condone these actions by either promoting it or not doing something to stop it.
This type of behavior is unacceptable, in any forum, let alone sports. The 7-year-old who is referenced as “looking up” to Venderbilt needs to have some counseling to understand that these types of actions are unacceptable, and there is nothing to look up to, except the actual height when standing.
If the Connell players shown as offenders are 18 or older, then someone needs to treat him in the same manner in some parking lot or back alley, just to illustrate what it might feel like to have some of this dished out in return.
Neither of these two students should be on the basketball court, any more than they should be put into a cage or ring with an MMA fighter. They aren’t prepared for that type of MMA action, nor are the other team’s players for these student’s actions on the court.
Kids need good role models, and there’s something wrong if Vanderbilt is being touted as one. He’s not. Far from it. That seven-year-old might need to have child protective services make a visit, because there might be even greater problems going on at home, if these actions are allowed on the HS court and the child is allowed to consider this thug as someone to endeavor to emulate as they grow up.
I can’t help but think that this type of collective ignorance has to in some way manifest itself in other ugly instances at home or in private, anger management issues, verbal and/or physical abuse, etc.
Bring that ish to NY playgrounds and that fat kid would get hospitalized!
Maybe the Connell coach (white jerseys) needs to reread the “JUST PLAY FAIR” statements that all players participate in the WIAA. Taken from the “JUST PLAY FAIR” site on WIAA:
” Ethics, integrity and respect are values important in our daily
lives. On the playing field, they are translated into the word
sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is one of the strongest educational
lessons and lifetime values taught by school activities.
Remember sportsmanship—it’s how you play the game.”
There wasn’t a lot of anything remotely reflecting that statement in the game played on 12.22 by Vanderbilt and Kennan. Trash talking is part of any sport and does not give license for flagrant and potentially dangerous fouls. Pierce: “there were no problems and no fights” statement has nothing to do with whether the refs were adequately officating the game. What a silly statement.
For goodness sake; a Florida panther NHL player (Krys Brach) was suspended for a game because a ref heard an inappropriate racial comment. Why would we expect lesser ref’ing during a high school game.
My child plays hockey. Even in hockey those would have resulted in game misconducts, penalties, etc. Heck even in the NHL that last “clothes lining” penalty would have resulted in a suspension (or ban), a fine, and a penalty. Why would we accept less in high school sports? The issues really isn’t the players. After all, we know nothing about these two players. We only know that during this game; their behavior was not sportmanlike.
We too have now viewed and are truly horrified by this video. Yes, basketball can be physical and rough. Yes, we believe that the refs for this game should be retrained, or removed from high school referring. Not sure why the WIAA is allowing such officiating.
But we are incredulous that the district Superintendent and his school board would not immediately remove at least one of the players involved and the coach, before a child, yes – these are still ‘children’, gets his neck broken or a skull fractured. To have the team’s players smirking and low-fiving each other after each of these fouls in unconscionable. For the coach to be quoted “his (#34) team has rallied to support him” is unbelievable. With all of the specialized training that athletes must go through regarding concussions in order to participate in sports these days, how in the world can you tolerate such an attitude? The coach encourages such behaviors? He allows the players to believe that they should support such game tactics?
Whatever is decided to be done about Connell High School’s basketball program, anything short of removing player #34 and replacing Coach Garza is condoning indescribably sadistic ball playing and shame on you all.
The video is appalling. Actions speak louder than words. In football the definition of clothesline is “To strike an opponent across the face or neck with an extended forearm. Clotheslining is illegal.” How can that be tolerated in basketball? Ron Artest of the Lakers this last May received a one game suspension for clotheslining JJ Barea. It is totally unacceptable behavior at any level of play. #34’s smirk after the play was nauseating.
As an active referee for more than 10 years, the officials on this game are very lucky they didn’t have a fight break out from their lack of control. I found that 2 of the 6 fouls should have either been intentional or flagrant. The video and article I feel doesn’t have all of the information. Are all 6 fouls shown in order of occurance in the game? What was the score? Was the White team getting blown out in the score, which out of frustration of getting killed on the score board to retaliate in hard fouls? Were all the fouls occuring in the first half or second half?
I will say there was a lack of preventitive officiating in what was shown in the video. Call the first or second hard fouls as intentional and (in theory) player #34 would have stopped his bad playing or the coach would have no choice but to take him out of the game. I’ve seen other officials take the time to pull #34 and #42 to the side and give them a warning, and if they don’t listen give them the Technical and/or toss them.
I am certainly using this video as a learning experience in my upcoming games of what not to do and how to handle those types of game situations.
No actually the white team (Connell) won the game by 1 point. The refs pretty much handed them that win. I am a 2008 graduate from Highland High and thus video shocked me to see how the game was played and the cls the refs made.
Hello to all wimpy rants,
I do not believe all of these to be bad calls, to me #2 was the worst and should have been a rejection and #6 should have been a flaguant foul to seen a message that basketball isn’t played like this, but these were hard fouls and fouls were called. #5 was the result of physics more than not a little person going head to head with a bigger person , the little person is going to get ran over and that is all that I saw that happen, I did not see any viciousness in this or the other fouls if you take the ball into the paint you better expect to get bump around because the shot is not going to be that easy that close to the basket, unless you play good offense and have good plays to move the ball around and fake out the defense to get an close uncontested shot, the defense will group up to the basket to stop the offensive player. give these refs a break they called 4 out of 6 calls right and did call all plays fouls. what are we becoming to not be able to compete? are we becoming to soft….We have to be hard on each other but caring to help each of us how to learn to be productive and effencient. This is just a little part of what I was thinking after I read these negative comments, give me a break!