Agree with another here........semantics.TNLAX wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:53 amI don’t know. The rule book says the player is to “drop their stick or hand it to the nearest official without delay”. She clearly didn’t “drop her stick”, she slammed it to the ground.wlaxphan20 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:36 pmDefinitely does. That’s maddeningBart wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:13 pmSeems to be a lack of any common sense
The players have gotten a little carried away with throwing the stick or slamming sticks after they score. Maybe this is a good teaching moment and the players will go back to just dropping their sticks like the rules state. If the official picks up a broken crosse from the ground, they have to deem it illegal and disallow the goal. Maybe the stick was already cracked before the goal and slamming the stick made it worse.
If we are going to go to the letter of the book, lets starts calling this rule every time it happens.
D. Cross Check: Initiating stick-to-body contact and using the shaft of the stick
to hit, push or displace an opponent.......
The point being is that the referees have the ability to use judgment on these types of calls. They do it 100's of times a game with the cross check. If they were to go by the "letter of the law" there would be way more calls for cross checking...heck it appears the women's game has gone the way of the men's game and welcomed the "cross check hold".
IMO,it was a bad call but in all fairness, UVA should not have put themselves into a position where one bad can determine the result of a game. Richmond played well and put UVA in that position.