I would totally disagree with the bolded part. There is contact on every. single. play. that doesn't get called as a foul.
My Gripes with Your Gripes About Officiating
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I would totally disagree with the bolded part. There is contact on every. single. play. that doesn't get called as a foul.
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Its like football. There could be a foul/penalty called every play. I wish the refs would call the fouls properly but I just find reading posts about bad calls to be boring and repetitious. One thing that's consistent is "Losing fan base complains" and "Winning fan base gloats".
Well yeah, there's going to be contact. That doesn't mean it's a foul though. I guess I should have said contact that is worthy of a foul. Contact that actually has an affect on the game (inhibits the other player).
Except we're the winning fan base.....and I still complain about officiating.
My biggest gripe with officiating is how frequently they play to the home crowd. I get that it’s human nature to get caught up in the game, but it pisses me off when the home team starts to get a rally going, the fans are ready to blow up with a big play, and the official gets caught up in it and dramatically emphasizes a charge or something that favors the home team to blow the roof off the place. It lacks professionalism and makes the game about the refs. There are some refs who just love being the guy to make that call, and it is incredibly annoying, even if the call favors the Hawks (though I’m usually in a lot better mood when it does).
I get that it is part of the whole “home court advantage” thing, but that home court advantage has been taken to a new level in the Big Ten, where home teams are winning at a rate substantially higher than the rest of college basketball
I get that it is part of the whole “home court advantage” thing, but that home court advantage has been taken to a new level in the Big Ten, where home teams are winning at a rate substantially higher than the rest of college basketball
First of all, there will always be some complaining about officials. But, I think the majority of folks want: 1)even-handed officiating at both ends of the court, 2) allow players to play basketball it is not football, 3) and for the officials to absolutely not let their personal bias or the crowd dictate their calls.
Just be consistent and equally fair to everyone.
Just be consistent and equally fair to everyone.
We can never expect there to be no contact but we sjould be
Yeah, don't like the word fair. Life isn't fair but rules should be evenly handled and yes that goes both ways.
Not a fan of officials calling a foul like they did on RK for words if your not going to be policing it for everyone all the time.
Otherwise what you posted is exactly what I would like to see.
Hand checking and moving picks are absolutely horrific.
You rarely see a guy curl off a pick anymore without the trailing defender having a hand on him to slow him down or outright holding the cutter.
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I understand where your coming from but if everyone gets a 'home court advantage' AND everyone plays the same amount of conference home games.....then its, by default, a fair playing field. But I know what you are saying and I agree that refs could be more consistent no matter who the home team is and who the away team is.
Edit: Sorry for the long post
I would say that it is an even playing field, but not necessarily a fair playing field. The home court advantage in the Big Ten has served only to hurt the better conference teams, and help the worse teams. As I look at conference standings across college basketball, most conferences have an upper tier of teams, a middle tier, and a bottom tier. In the SEC, another conference with 14 teams, it’s incredibly apparent. Same thing in the ACC (14 also) and Big 12. Pac 12 has like 5 games between top and bottom teams. Admittedly, I haven’t followed closely enough to speak confidently about the conference or the reason for this
Look at the Big Ten. Not a single team has a winning road record, and almost all have insane home records (to the tune of the top 7 teams not having more than one loss at home all season), and the teams, outside of the Nebraska/Northwestern atrocities, are all within four games.
This is just my opinion of course, but I don’t really believe that Big Ten teams are THAT much better at home than all of the other teams in the country, and that officiating has played a role in this phenomenon
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