Description These fouls discussed on CNN: www.cnn.com ***PLEASE READ BELOW: Discussed on ESPN Radio. www.youtube.com (discussed at 2;50 and 34;28) Since the release of this video, the Washington Officials Association (WOA), the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) and the Connell School District have all done their best to sweep this situation under the rug. The WOA has defended the referees (and their non-calls) in this game. The Connell Athletic Director has publicly supported the actions of his players and coaches. The Connell head coach supports the actions of his players...while the WIAA has done nothing to enforce any sort of punishment for anyone involved. This has been a massive failure on everyone's part and makes it clear that they find these actions acceptable in high school basketball. I receive daily messages from people all over the world who are outraged by this video. The following are ACTUAL quotes: "It's getting painted as flagrant or intentional fouls. There were no problems and no fights" ---Dave Pierce, a 30-year veteran of the Tri-Cities (Washington) Sports Officials Association "My feeling is I bet you could go to 90% of any sporting event that has contact like basketball, football, whatever. You could probably go through any person's game film and pull these same or similar incidents out. This just happened to be a person did that and posted it online" --Steve Frucci, Connell High School Athletic Director sfrucci@nfsd.org "He's a tough kid <b>...</b>
