hoyaalf
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Post by hoyaalf on Feb 8, 2010 20:44:22 GMT -5
 Watchin a sorta WVU-VU game. B'EAST refs ain't that good, don'cha know. Weren't good last two games at Boooth, either way. How do they compa5e to say, Mountain West officials?
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Feb 8, 2010 21:09:53 GMT -5
To quote David Byrne ... "same as it ever was."
College reffing is awful, period. I watch some Pac-10 games -- atrocious. I was once tortured with a Big-10 game -- an enormity. And the Big 12 teams' boards have massive, twenty page posts screaming about Ed Hightower. Even when they win.
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Feb 9, 2010 12:04:47 GMT -5
I think the main problem is the inconsistency with in reffing teams. This has happened at both the Duke and Nova games. In both games two of the three officials were good, they made fair calls both ways and were consistent. But one of the officials always seemed to be making calls contrary to the others (both ways, there wasnt any bias towards one team)
I would think it would be better for players and coaches to have consistently bad reffing than inconsistently good and bad reffing
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FLHoya
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Post by FLHoya on Feb 9, 2010 13:42:25 GMT -5
Funny, the same thought crossed my mind as ALF's last night, but from the opposite direction. I was scrolling through channels and caught the MD-Eastern Shore - NC A&T game on ESPNU. There was some officiating issue or another going on at the time. And I thought--hmmm, you never do see MEAC referees in the NCAAs do you? It's pretty much all officials who see the majority of their time in a Big Six conference. Wonder why that is to be honest.
I guess it's one of those things where through experience and good assessments you move up to the "big leagues" and once you're there, the marquee assignments follow--think about the well-known officials in the Big East...they've all been there a good 15 years or so.
My question: if we did a switcheroo right now, and swapped the Big East's referee roster with another Big Six conference for a full season--say, the PAC 10 b/c there's no overlap--would we find things any better? I doubt it.
It's a tough job with a ton of gray areas and ways to "interpret" the supposedly black and white rules. I do think certain officials display tendencies on the court (Curtis Shaw has a short fuse, John Cahill IMO calls charging fouls fairly liberally, as last night in Morgnatown) but it's almost impossible to predict how a given crew will call a game.
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