Hawaii Draw Penalty For Pregame Ritual

[GreenBat]

Let Hawaii Haka!

When Hawaii (32) did its pregame haka (a Maori war chant) at Louisiana Tech (33) on Saturday, the result was a 15-yard flag for unsportsmanlike conduct. The Warriors had to open the game kicking off from their own 15-yard line.

Not surprisingly, June Jones (34) was displeased.

"For someone to micromanage outside the NCAA rules, that's not right," Jones told the Honolulu Advertiser.

As the paper pointed out, "The NCAA has rules against unsportsmanlike conduct, but none specifically mentions the haka …" And The Dash thought the NCAA had a rule for everything.

Hawaii began doing the haka before games last season as a "cultural thing," according to its players and coaches. The WAC office received at least one complaint that the haka was done to provoke or intimidate opponents, so the league sent out a notice "encouraging teams not to perform the haka during road games," the Advertiser said. (You think they were talking to Hawaii? Or perhaps Idaho?)

The Dash is all for pregame pageantry and color. As long as the Warriors aren't starting any fights, let them take their haka on the road.

[greenminer]

Refs are lame.

How many of ya'll went to the NT-Memphis bball game in the tourney? Ten bucks says Memphis did their usual circus dunks for warm-up. They did it at every game. I got to see it when they came to play in El Paso. then...

...the following week UTEP was playing (Houston?) and got whistled for "a" single dunk in warm ups. The other team got two freebies before the game even started.

I demand more consistency, or I'll start calling "bull sh*t" to prove they're morons that don't understand the rules.