You just had your big ticket item, NCAA, your billion-dollar jewel, close out the season with this takeaway:
All that money, and you can’t be bothered coming up with competent officiating for your organization’s annual biggest night on the stage? What, you didn’t know it was coming?
It’s not just the NCAA, of course. The P5 conferences won’t make the effort to professionalize their football officials either.
Maybe they all think the fans like crappy refs.
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Oh I just thought lowering a shoulder into a defender to clear room towards the basket was legal now!
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How do you think KY made it as far as they did?
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So true PTC
DAWG
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It’s part of the college sports experience! We’re all big Georgia fans because of A.J. Green’s excessive celebration penalty against LSU.
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“All that money, and you can’t be bothered coming up with competent officiating for your organization’s annual biggest night on the stage?”
The NCAA buys a custom maple hardwood court for the Final Four location each year, but last night we saw three referees huddled around the same undersized monitor trying to ascertain who last touched the ball. It appears the television announcers have access to better technology than the referees.
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What fun would it be if we couldn’t complain about inept officiating? Everything the NCAA does is in the best interests of the fans. Really.
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I think I saw the Duke bias that I’ve heard my UNC/UVA friends bitch about for years but that’s just my lying eyes and I’m sure there is nothing to see here.
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They hire inept refs so the fans can blame the refs and not the players in a loss, it’s all about the kids. The NCAA cares.
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Now if we just had an honest kid who would tell his coach…”Coach, I touched it last”..and then go tell the official. Sounds like a TV spot, huh?
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Loser of a close game usually goes to the low hanging fruit for blame, IE the REFS….try making a shot down the stretch for once.
Wisky benefited in the KY game from a blatant missed shot clock call. It happens, officials aren’t machines, they are fallible. And as far as watching replays forever, that is not better IMHO. Give’em 30 seconds to look at something in the last minute, make a decision or not, move on.
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Better officiating costs more money.
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cry, cry cry.
Whiskey wasn’t crying in the first half when the refs were trying to foul out 2 of Duke’s 8 players.
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Duck got all the breaks in bracketology including in the earlier rounds. That’s really why they won. Michigan State overachieved all the way to the Final Four and Duck got lucky and got the Spartans for their first game–thud when the Spartans fell back”to the mean.” Wisky upset the best team in the nation and spent themselves doing it. I have a buddy who is a UNC guy and he called it as soon as Wisky upset UK. I’m not saying that Duck isn’t a good team but hell, like the ESPN nattering nabobs said about the Georgia Bulldog football team in 2007 to justify leaving the Dawgs out of the BCSNCG, “they didn’t even win their conference.”
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Is that like “Duck of Death”, Mayor?
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It’s not about crying or whining or “they got bad foul calls too.” The state of officiating in the college game is a joke. When we’re reduced to trying to arguing whether the bad equaled out somehow, then we’ve surrendered to crappy officiating. Not me. The Game deserves better.
They need to find a way to be consistent. Last night featured two halves officiating in two completely different ways. We often see officials afraid to call clear fouls late or on popular players. As a result, we’re often watching a game played with a basketball – but it’s not basketball. Or at least not a very entertaining version of it.
What are my memories of NCAA 2015? Kaminsky winning an Oscar for a total flop against Arizona. A reviewed no-call for a UK player whacking a Badger in the face. A missed shot clock violation. Officials who can’t get calls right with replay. Officials who might as well flip a coin on block/charge. A game on TBS where the officials are calling 40 fouls on every little touch and a game simultaneously on CBS where players are mugging each other with abandon.
The game is becoming unwatchable, and officiating incompetency/inconsistency is a huge contributing factor.
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The refs didn’t miss all those point-blank shots down the stretch.
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