A Coaches Wrong Action

These are some of the players

     The topic of paying tribute with uniforms and accesories at the professional level has taken on a life of its own    in recent years, but apparently it is not acceptable at the high school level. On Monday night, a Nebraska high school girls basketball team received a technical foul for supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As part of a fundraising effort, the Burke High Bulldogs wore light pink uniforms for their game against Columbus. They were given the technical foul at the start of the second half. According the Omaha World-Herald, Columbus coach Dave Licari brought the issue to the officials’ attention at halftime saying technically, the home team is supposed to wear white uniforms. Since the home teams coach had not informed anyone of the change in uniform they were considered breaking the rules.

This was a banner.

    After the game the uniforms were to be auctioned off and all of the proceeds were going to be given to the Make-A-Wish-Foundation. What caught me off guard is if they were breaking the rules of the game why didn’t anyone address the situation at the beginning of the game instead of waiting till halftime mark.

     This is a high school game. At the professional level, players know that if they wear any type of color that is not their teams color they will be fined. This was a group of high school students trying to raise money for cancer research to help the poor children and adults that have to go through treatments that are not all care free and fun. Burke the coach of the Nebraska team says “If the officials caught the rule violation and had no choice but to penalize, that would be one thing. The fact that their opponent brought it up to the officials attention — during halftime of a highschool game — is despicable.”

     I was brought up to help support the things that you love and those girls on that Nebraska, Burke High Bulldogs basketball team was trying to do something nice for their community and ours by wearing the colors of the Make-A-Wish-Foundation. Personal I think he was doing this out of spite because they were losing and he wanted to try and ruin their chances by attacking something so innocent as helping fight cancer. What I really want to know is what do you think about this matter and tell what you think about that coaches action.

Below is a link that will lead you to the video where you can see some of the players talking about it and the coach as well.

http://www.kptm.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?clipId1=6723322&flvUri=&partnerclipid=&at1=News&vt1=v&h1=Why%20So%20Pink%3F&d1=86900&redirUrl=&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv&rnd=399063

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