Sarah Foster writes: >Shawn >Walsh was more than a little irrate because he did not feel the call was >a correct one. I believe that after the game he publically criticized >the officials call. (I am not positive on what exactly happened) As a >result, Coach Walsh was suspended for one game and was forced to sit out of >Maine's first NCAA tourney game of 90-91. (or if Maine had not made it >then, whenever Maine made it to the NCAA's again). > >Does anyone remember this? I assume the rules regarding the carry over of >suspension with respect to player and coaches are two different things. >Does anyone know what the rule books says? Jack Parker was also given the same punishment for actions in the BU-MSU series that season. Both coaches were to sit out their next NC$$ tourney game - whenever that was, and it turned out to be the next season. This was a punishment that was handed down by the NC$$ in the off-season - unlike the player suspension from the RPI game which was a simple DQ assessed during play. It doesn't appear specifically in the rule book, although the NC$$ does retain the right to take action as necessary against players/coaches involved in their tournament - witness the punishments certain Wisconsin personnel received following the 1992 championship game with LSSU. Speaking of which, I realized that I need to do something in my records about the games Wisconsin was supposed to have forfeited that season, including as I recall the vacating of the runner-up position in 1992. (This was not related to the incidents that occurred in the championship game.) I believe Wisconsin was required to offer forfeits to all opponents in 1991-92. Does anyone know which, if any, opponents accepted the forfeits and what UW's official record is for that season? --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93