Ekwe Not Alone! Burke and Long Wear Wrong Uniforms Too!
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Coach Franz Pumaren walks onto the court in La Salle’s first game of UAAP Season 71 without an ID and the Commissioner himself slaps a technical foul on him without the game even starting.
In Ateneo’s last game against UP, 2 of their players, Vince Burke and Kirk Long, wore uniforms different from those of the rest of the team. UP did not protest the infraction but I don’t think that has any bearing on this case. But remember Ateneo did not protest the fact that Coach Pumaren was not wearing an ID either. The Commissioner Almighty took it upon himself to act as the authority since the referees did not have the power to do so because the game had not started.
Why didn’t the Commissioner Almighty step in and do the policing that he has been continuously doing since day 1 of this season? The Ekwe incident in the game against CSB is an indication of how different the NCAA and the UAAP are. Ekwe’s case will be discussed by the board. The Ateneo incident will be forgotten.
Not so fast! The least I can do is to voice out my opinion on the matter. Though the uniforms would “not have changed the outcome of the game”, neither would a coach not wearing his ID. So why is the Commissioner Almighty as meek as a lamb on the Ateneo issue?
How could the Ateneo coaching staff not have noticed that 2 of their players were not wearing the different uniforms? Where did Vince Burke get his uniform since he was not playing for Ateneo last year? How could the scorer’s table not have seen it? How could the referees have let it pass? If referees have been suspended in this UAAP season because of bad calls, then the scorers and referees should be heavily reprimanded this time for a non-call. Who is going to reprimand the Commissioner?
I am not advocating that Ateneo be stripped of that win. They won it and UP lost it. What I am driving at here is CONSISTENCY on the part of the Commissioner and his assistants!
In 2004, in a game against UP, La Salle’s OJ Cua wore a wrong uniform. The game was protested by UP even before it began and even though La Salle lost that game, the Board decided that had they won, they would have forfeited. That is the precedence.
How can people not question the Commissioner Almighty in this case? La Salle with no ID equals technical foul. Ateneo with 2 players wearing wrong uniforms equals silence. It is the prerogative of UP to protest or not. But just as the Commissioner reversed the one game suspension of UE’s Paul Lee, he can still do something to at least acknowledge that a mistake had been committed by the referees, the scorer’s table and most of all, the Commissioner himself. Admitting one’s mistake is not a sign of weakness but rather a show of strength.
Now he has opened a Pandora’s Box because if any other team commits the same infraction, the Commissioner would have lost all his moral right to reprimand the erring team.
When will all these controversies end? Teams are bashing each other because of the bad officiating. FEU rep Anton Montinola said that La Salle’s win against FEU was an empty one because of the phantom technical on Barroca. Coach Franz Pumaren retorts by saying that it is not appropriate for a Board Member to speak that way. Why not point the finger where it needs to be pointed at?
The problems are not the teams. The problem is the officiating and those who run the league. Instead of wasting time going back and forth making accusations, the UAAP should look at the bigger picture. For a group of highly respected educational institutions, isn’t the solution so obvious?
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jesson
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 at 8:19 pm
ateneos next game is against UE, the only way to stop UE is to neutralize the points of martinez and dont let him get a momentum especially in 3 pts area, also you have to guard the most in UE is thiel and espiritu, dont let UE 3 pointers to make 3 all the time, one big fight
jesson
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Friday, 15 August 2008 at 6:03 pm
ateneo has lots of good, great and handsome players in their line up tiu, burke, long, and salva, they had great and wonderful crowd they had the best school hymn/battle song today
BerdengEbak
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 at 11:12 am
Napakababaw na palusot ‘tong “wrong uniform” kuno. Kahit buong San Beda team pa ang lumang uniporme ang suot, siguradong tatambakan pa din nila ang CSB.
Saludo talaga ako sa UP. Mahusay! Hindi sila nagpakababaw tulad ng CSB. Harapin ang pagkatalo bilang lalaki, na may dignidad. Ano bang tubig ang iniinom sa Taft? Nakakabading yata!
Ito pa isang halimbawa ng “wrong uniform”. Buti na lang parehong magagaling na eskwelahan (UST at Ateneo) ang nagtuos kaya walang protestang naganap:
http://bleachersbrew.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-guess-its-epidemic.html
Mahirap talaga kung basketball lang ang kayang ipagmalaki ng eskwelahan mo. Lahat na dadayain mo, maging high school documents, para lang manalo. Nakakaawa. Tunay na bulok ang GANGRENE.
Conde Bryant
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Friday, 25 July 2008 at 9:53 pm
Ano ba yan?!?
Kung sinu-sino ang nasa top ng collegiate ranks…
Sila pa yung malas sa uniform…
Bakit kaya?
DeViLmInE
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Friday, 25 July 2008 at 11:17 am
dami talga ng tao na makikitid ang utak.
wawawiwa
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Friday, 25 July 2008 at 10:17 am
this is really not the time to joke around carlo. buhay ang pinaguusapan dito.
carlo
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Friday, 25 July 2008 at 8:13 am
sino ba kalaban ng FEU sa next game? hehehe
damn!!
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Friday, 25 July 2008 at 7:10 am
grabe na talaga sa pilipinas ngayon! ang gulo! dapat siguro after 1st round break muna UAAP ng 1 week para maayos ng board yung problems nila.. like yung sa commish and kay baracael.. grabe ang UAAP ngayon.. very CONTROVERSIAL!!
Crystal_Clear
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 11:54 pm
@greenminded>>>
Oo nga naman, bakit nga ba di nalang ikaw ang maging commissioner Mr. Atayde. para meron kami makita sa sinasabi mung “CONSISTENCY” yung malapot ba hehe. o kaya ikaw nalng personal na questionin si Narvasa sa rulling nya, para naman mapatunayan mung mahusay ka.
Jason Postulka
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 11:33 pm
ang violent naman ng bumaril. chaka nya!
DeViLmInE
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 11:20 pm
Don’t worry mac..Ateneo community will include you in our prayers.
kahit d ka atenista…ONE BIG FIGHT!! for yo!
omfg
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:47 pm
let’s pray for mac. that’s way too much! grabe na sa maynila!
Grrr!
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:43 pm
mayor lim… HOY GISING! hulihin mo yung criminal…
Grrr!
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:39 pm
please provide updatess on Mac’s condition. he is strong… he’ll pull through.
what a very very stupid and idiotic and dastardly deed. i hope the shooter gets what he deserves soon.
nicksy
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:37 pm
sir green mind,
typo error: Mary Chiles Hospital, along Gastambide.
nicksy
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:33 pm
it is hard to speculate if the incident was Basketball related or it was personal , or maybe he was misidentified as somebody else. hopefully the MPD will take action on this, and the shooter will be apprehended.
shawgirls
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:32 pm
PARA SA UAAP YATA YUNG “BEYOND BASKETBALL” NG ABS AT HINDI SA NCAA. JUSTICE FOR MAC!
Maria
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:29 pm
Let’s pray that Baracael will survive this and he may continue playing. Sayang ang galing niya.
nicksy
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:25 pm
Sad News for college basketball, on behalf of the NCAA community, we pray that he will get better and out of danger.
NCAA as one.
Animo San Beda.
mac-chiz
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:24 pm
lets all pray for mac. thats too much.
The Green Mind
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:18 pm
More on Baracael:
Baracael was with Ron Cabagnot and Robert Kave right outside the gym. A car passed and they heard a shot. Next thing they knew, Baracael was down.
They were not able to see who fired the shot.
This is really sad and goes beyond basketball!
Grrr!
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:13 pm
i hope they catch the shooter… let’s all pray for his recovery…
The Green Mind
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:12 pm
Barcael was said to have been shot from behind.
red_no_more
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:10 pm
aw.. sad news really for college basketball… let’s pray for the best..
The Green Mind
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 10:08 pm
Sad news:
FEU mainstay, Mac Baracael was confirmed shot near Philtrust Banck at the corner of Morayta and R. Papa, near the FEU gym.
His now fighting for his life at the Mary Childs Hospital. Please pray for him/
bingbong
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 9:57 pm
mr tony, kelan nyu po ilalabas yng scoop nyo s rookie n uaap?tgal n po un inaabangan e.tnx po.more power, godbless
Grrr!
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 9:10 pm
@LDC, that the ruling applies only to the July 18 game is true. The ruling there is forfeiture. how can subseguent games be forfeited when there was no violation committed yet. also, the complaint of csb does not trasnlate to complaints by other teams. the complaint by csb is use of improper uniform. after JUly 18, the use of the BARRED player is a forfeitable offense. that would be the basis of the new complaints, kung mayrroon man.
LDC
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 8:53 pm
It makes sense now. I got confused by the last paragraph stating “(9.2.1 applies only to that particular played game last July 18).”
Just couldn’t understand why they didn’t just delete the sentence about the banning of the player from the rule. Wouldn’t have caused all the confusion.
Anyway, thanks.
The Green Mind
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 8:48 pm
LDC,
I have 3 cofirmations from the NCAA that Ekwe is NOT BANNED. I would trust these people more than I would Ubelt.com.
Thank you!
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