todays ref's

Question

They were bad both ways, they were as bad of a crew as I've seen in major college ball...maybe a church league but not at this level.

Originally posted on The Hall by rockycard.

Answer 1

So many bogus calls. Dieng got #2 posting up. When the ref called a block on Russ in the 1st half, he was so excited I thought he was going to high five the DePaul coach and take off his shirt and swing it around over his head. That is when I knew we were in trouble.

They had a play late in the game where the DePaul guy clearly climbs Dieng's back for a defensive rebound knocks it out of bounds and they called it off Dieng.

All those were fascinating but maybe the most hilarious play was the alley-oop pass where Swopshire rooted the guy out and he barely got his hands on the ball and they called it in the act of shooting.

This is what we've come to expect. Whatever Pitino is saying to the refs, it's not working. The shaft that we receive his hilarious. It's always something bizarre, and in a strange twist it MIGHT, key word, MIGHT make us a better team come post season, as it would seem the NCAA officiating would be a little more even than what we're getting in this Big East.

Originally posted on The Hall by Ipartiedwithhopgood.

Answer 2

Perhaps the most noticeable wrong call was when Dieng corralled the ball on the floor inches inside the endline, but it was called out of bounds. the replay showed the ball did not touch the line let-a-lone cross. One of the commentators uttered "OOOOhhhhhhh" then their was a pregnant silence. The ref making the call was no more than five feet away. Pathetic! Once again.

Originally posted on The Hall by GaelicKnight.

Answer 3

Yea, the refs decide these games far too often. I have to wonder if the decline in basketball popularity isn't in part due to the refs. We get too many idiotic calls that just ruin it. Or in the last minute they just decide to swallow their whistle. No consistency in college basketball.

Its hard to play defense when the offensive players are pretty much allowed to run you over. I particularly find it hard to stomach when an offensive player makes a running leap towards the basket, slams into the defender, and somehow that is contact created by the defender.

I can only speak for myself, and this is one reason why I have stopped watching college basketball if it doesn't involve UofL. I don't want to watch refs make up rules in their head, and then a minute later forget they made that rule up. There needs to be consistency for an entire 40 minutes.

Originally posted on The Hall by Vballjones.

Answer 4

It is a very hard job, but they were so bad today. When people complain about the refs in a win, you know something is really wrong.

Originally posted on The Hall by Big East Card.

Answer 5

I'd say you talk to a Depaul fan and they would have at least 5 calls they thought were bogus as well. Officiating is a lost art.

Originally posted on The Hall by ColdCard.

Answer 6

I think they should have a "showboating" rule for refs. On some of these calls, the ref runs 4 or 5 steps down the floor before doing an over exaggerated charging/blocking motion. Some of these actions are just plain obnoxious and take away from the game and puts the focus on the refs. Reminds me more of something you'd see in WWE rather than professional sports.

Originally posted on The Hall by meltdown213.

Answer 7

Hope you're right. I really hope the poor calls makes the team stronger but I'm worried it will have the opposite effect in the post season. I'm concerned that the poor officiating is promoting bad habits thus when good officiating shows up, the bad habits surface and cripple the team with serious foul trouble.

About the alley-oop pass/foul which the refs called a shot, that ONE play should earn those refs a suspension in my opinion. They actually huddled to talk about it and STILL got it wrong. That's what upset me the most about that call. You cannot call that a shot because the offensive player never grabbed the ball to make a shooting motion. It wasn't a shot. One of the worst calls I've seen called in any game at any level only because they huddled as a crew to talk about it and still screwed it up. Pitiful.

Originally posted on The Hall by Cue Card.

Answer 8

The out of bounds was a hideous call, but what about the traveling call on Russ when he was dribling the ball. I noticed Pitino kept having words with the ref who continued to make yhe bogus calls on us.

Originally posted on The Hall by redbirdtd.

Answer 9

If you go back and watch, his finger is barely over the line while Dieng had posession of the ball. It was the right call but I can't believe they saw it.

Originally posted on The Hall by Bird Watcher.

Answer 10

What about Karl Hess ejecting 2 former players from the crowd at the NC State game? Then that douche Digger Phelps agreeing because he's friends with Hess. Refs have too much control and can't really be held responsible for poor calls.

Originally posted on The Hall by louis502ville.

Answer 11

Ordinarily I hate blame-somebody-else-because-you-were-unhappy-with-the-results threads, but this post makes this thread worthwhile, both in its literal sense, but also in its latent comedic value. It is comedy when you picture the great lengths that refs go to display their ballet and gymanstic moves.

I once knew a HS girl who ref'd grade school BB games. She knew the scorekeepers. When she called a foul she would run near the scorers' table and give the hand signals for the infraction. However, she would verbally call out the correct offense while making obscene "hand signals" to the scorers.

So, meltdown, what do you suggest?
First infraction - stand at center court and get boo'd for 30 seconds.
Second infraction - buy four tix for a needy kid
Third infraction - loss of one shoe for the rest of the game

Originally posted on The Hall by 71card.

Answer 12

The traveling call on russ while he dribbled the ball was the one that got me. One day I'm going to be institutionalized. My brain will implode during a play, and an usher will find me in the aisle, cradling in the fetal position. I will spend the rest of my life muttering, "he was dribbling the ball, so it can't be traveling. How can it be traveling if he was dribbling the ball?"

Originally posted on The Hall by ColonelCardinal.

Answer 13

At first I thought the Dieng call was wrong - but actually it was correct - the arm he was using to balance himself had his fingers on the line just as he made contact with the ball with his other hand. The Russ Smith travel - I couldn't see clearly enough.

Originally posted on The Hall by Violiner.

Answer 14

Originally posted on The Hall by meltdown213.