How petty & ridiculous is this? Giving a Girls basketball team a technical foul for wearing Pink -?

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Fund raising uniforms at home?  Are you kidding me? Your thoughts & the story inside-> 

Omaha girls handed a technical foul for wearing pink fundraising uniforms at home

A high school girls basketball team in Nebraska is struggling to understand why officials would have upstaged the school's well-meaning charity game in which they wore pink uniforms to honor the Make-A-Wish Foundation by handing the team a technical foul.

As first reported by the Omaha World Herald and Omaha Fox affiliate KPTM, the Omaha (Neb.) Burke High girls basketball team was assessed a technical foul at the start of the second half of the team's game against Omaha (Neb.) Columbus High for wearing pink uniforms in a home game. At the time, Burke led the game by a point, but Columbus coach Dave Licari brought up the fact that since Burke was the home team, they were required to wear white uniforms. The World-Herald reported that Licari's athletic director, John Krogstrand, was the man who brought the uniform violation to the coach's attention.
Naturally, the special pink uniforms being worn and auctioned off after the game to raise $2,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation that night didn't qualify as white, and the game officials—sticking to the strict interpretation of the rulebook—assessed a technical foul. A Columbus player walked to the line, sunk two free-throws to give her squad the lead and the Explorers never looked back en route to a 62-47 victory.

As one might expect, the Burke players penalized for the special uniforms are now struggling to comprehend how an opposing coach's decision to push for that technical foul fits into the larger sense of sportsmanship and community responsibility that is supposed to be a integral part of high school sports.
"We were just supporting a charity and I think that it was dumb that we had to get a technical foul for it," Burke player Michaela Brown told KPTM.
It's a fairly traditional fundraising technique for high school girls teams, regardless of the sport they compete in, to wear pink jerseys for a single game fundraiser. The gesture is a win-win proposition: It raises money for a charitable cause, it gives the student athletes a deeper sense of awareness of how they can make a difference in their every day life and it puts sports in their proper place.
Even a boys football team in Michigan is in on the pink jersey action so its players can help fundraise for breast cancer.
In short, nothing bad is supposed to happen when players wear pink. Yet that's precisely what happened in Omaha.
For his part, the Burke athletic director is owning up to the mistake for overlooking the technicalities pertaining to wearing only white uniforms at home, or potentially obtaining an exemption for that rule. Still, it's hard to feel that the Burke coaching staff or its players did anything wrong at all. Rather, they used a clever idea by an assistant coach -- the World-Herald reported that the charity game was originally the idea of Burke assistant Tom Law -- to raise even more money than they had hoped for.
"It was a good event, but we just made a mistake that over shadowed that," Burke athletic director Kyle Rohrig told KPTM, who took a more positive tone when discussing the $2,600 raised by the auction of the jerseys after the game. "I'm glad we could at least be the event site where we could get that done and I am glad we were able to do that.
"Raising money for charity is just a part of life and I think it was opportunity for us to do that."

? · Accepted Answer

Although as a girl I grew out of liking the color pink (well, not entirely thou :) my cat, Midnight's carrier is pink & black) I understand the well wishes meaning behind the color; it is also used in Walk For Life, a cancer society's fund raising event at local levels in which I participated once; the pink color ribbons are used to honor those who have survived cancer and also as an awareness icon.

I am also with you that it is petty and just really stupid for the ump to have done that!

I don't understand people like that regardless of the context, which should not matter at all when it comes to such an absurd decision.

@Darling Dallas-U R right!  I didn't outgrow pink :) {{{ warmest hugs, love, and kisses from both of us, your sisters always :) }}}

? · Answer

Well it is in the rules, they should have been given the tech, but then the opposing player shooting the free throws should have missed them on purpose. Same thing kinda happened in one of my high schools game. A kids dad got into a car accident and was in the hospital an hour before game. His dad told him to go to the game since he would be ok, he got to the game late and went out into the court, but that was a tech since he wasn't dressed at beginning of game. The other players knew what happened with his dad and said they refused to shoot the tech shots, but the refs forced him so he tossed the ball into the stands for his shot. That was even our rivals that did that. That's what the girl should've done. If they wanted to wear pink they shoudve worn pink shoe laces, pink wrapping around ankles, pink head bands, and anything else possible to wear. They should also have gotten approval first.

? · Answer

They asked the technical to be called at the start of the second half. The Columbus coaches and AD didn't object AT the beginning of the game.  

They only decided to do this lame *** maneuver when they were down by a point at the start of the second half.

Classy people...

K-Dawg Spartans Fan · Answer

I don't have a problem with it. The rule clearly states that the home team must wear white and it's a technical if they don't. Sure it's not so bad in this case, but what it some team wore rainbow jerseys? Would it be okay then? What if they wore the same color as the away team? Then there would be some problems. It's a good rule to have. Maybe they should've gone to the league BEFORE they stepped onto the court to see if it was acceptable and if they would've allowed it. Maybe if they asked before the game, the opposing team would've been cool with it.

5 ft 7 Texas Heaven · Answer

I dont like b ball at all, but equality will never be a thing I experience in my lifetime, nor is it likely that tolerance, acceptance, liberation, and look at what happened to the WNBA leagues, or whatever they call it. Life sucks, but I'm still OK bein a girl.

Jumps up wavin SELF, ya never outgrow pink, its my fave color, LOL. Hugs and love angel

Mrs H · Answer

This is ridiculous. The other team was down a point
and they pulled this. I'd want to win on my own merit.
It's a lesson to make sure you check all the rules and
not assume no one would have a problem with it

mattapan26 · Answer

K Dawg is correct.  The coach or AD should have obtained league approval first.  Burke even admits it.

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Mary · Answer

I can see where it would have been confusing if players of both teams showed up wearing pink but to fine them is crazy in my opinion~

Dustin · Answer

thats way petty for that coach to complain about that especially during the half. i think as long as theyre both wearing different colored jerseys that there shouldnt be a problem. its not like they were confused who the home team was. ridiculous!

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