N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried had avoided adding commentary to the incident involving two former Wolfpack players and official Karl Hess from Saturday's game until a late Monday night appearance at a student rally on campus.
At the "Ram Roast," aptly near the Freedom of Expression tunnel, Gottfried offered his unfiltered comments about Hess and his decision to eject Chris Corchiani and Tom Gugliotta in the second half of Saturday's game. A student taped the impromptu question-and-answer session and put it first on Facebook and then the video found its way to YouTube.
Gottfried's comments from the video:
"I think it was weak. It was bad and I thought the official was completely out of line 100 percent. I'm disappointed, quite frankly, in the ACC, because not only did he throw out two of N.C. State's greats, he threw out two of the ACC's greats, and the league is supporting an official rather than supporting former great players.
The former great players, in my opinion, were embarrassed and wronged when they shouldn't have been. I don't think you can have rabbit ears like that if you're a referee and start throwing people out. I was disappointed in the whole thing. So they gave a reprimand tonight to the official, but it was pretty weak in my opinion."
The ACC reprimanded Hess on Monday night for his failure to follow the proper protocol in ejecting fans. Hess also wrote in an email to the ACC, which the conference provided for N.C. State, that Corchiani and Gugliotta were ejected for "excessive demonstration on several calls as they came right up to the scorer’s table."
Corchiani and Gugliotta, who both have their jerseys honored at the RBC Center, will be honored, with the 1988-89 N.C. State team, before tonight's game against the Tar Heels. The '89 team won the regular-season ACC title, the last conference championship by the program.
-- J.P. Giglio
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
N.C. State's Gottfried calls ACC reprimand 'weak'
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Oops. Now Gottfried will be suspended for talking about the officials. Not smart.
Yes, Gottfried will be in hot water for this. Stupid of the student to post on Facebook.
I doubt Gottfried will be in trouble because he wasn't commenting on the officiating of game play.
NC State actually has a "pep rally" before the Carolina game???? Seriously???? I wonder if they also had a sock hop after the game last night and all went down to the drive in and got chocolate malteds?
Last time I checked State's won 3 straight in baseball and 5 straight and football against UNCheat. It's fun to own your rival in more than one sport!
Oh and P.S. we don't cheat.
The only thing that should be in hot water is that garbage, lop-sided officiating.
http://espn.go.com/blog/north-carolina-basketball/post/_/id/4912/lack-of-fouls-key-for-unc
Call it whatever you need to 9:33. State has a lot of school pride that goes beyond running your mouth about your basketball team.
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