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Officiating

  • Yes but there are mistakes / bias and it can have enormous impact on the end result. This is why certain sports have been asked to use replay or risk losing Olympic status. I am sure historical powers like UNC and Dook would be against video challenges.

    This post was edited by sabreterp on 2/5/2012 at 10:26 AM

    sabreterp

  • hgoodman said...

    Well starting the same "Wow, this team is really shitty and under-manned" thread would get tiresome, too.

    LOL, fair enough.

    UMTerp ●

  • Count me among those who thought this was the worst officiated game they've seen in Comcast (5 years worth of games for me). Heartbreaking, too, since we really had a very good chance to win were we not playing 5 on 8. Frustrating as all hell. And I actually had gotten excited at the start of the game when I saw we didn't have Hess, Luckie, or Eades working.

    terp121

  • I don't think we got whored because the refs were simply awful both ways. The ACC really needs to do something, the games are unwatchable now.

    neal990

  • simply put, the refs took the game out of the players hands.

    RDurr ●

  • SATerp said...

    I pretty much agree with this. ACC refs are front runners, and will ALWAYS favor high ranked teams (ie, Duke/UNC) over lesser ACC teams. We got better calls when we were ranked. It's as stupid as, you have to become highly ranked in order to get the calls (and thus stay highly ranked). I don't think there's anything you can do in the ACC to avoid getting jobbed against UNC (anytime) and Duke (as long as K is there).

    Right - Unless we are playing high ranked teams from Carolina. Go back to Lefty and look at the horrific screw jobs we got time and again playing any teams from Carolina. The 1974 hose jobs may have cost us our first NC. It is actually somewhat better now, but the ACC did not earn the title "All Carolina Conference" for nothing.

    King Penguins, South Georgia Island

    MikeFan

  • Pretty much every game is on TV today. There is absolutely no reason not use replay for subjective calls. I think you eventually see it come to basketball. It will probably start at the World Championships or Olympics and trickle down.

    This post was edited by sabreterp on 2/5/2012 at 12:35 PM

    sabreterp

  • RDurr said...

    simply put, the refs took the game out of the players hands.

    This. My complaint about the refs is not so much that they cost us the game, but that they've completely ruined the flow of the games by not using more discretion with their whistles.

    Gumbercules ●

  • I think the last 4 games was the worst four game stretch of officiating that I can remember. Duke, Va. Tech, Miami, and UNC were all awful officiating. They were pretty bad both ways in all four, maybe less in our favor vs. Duke than any of the others, but they were overall terrible in each of those games. I can't say that I thought they "cost us" any of the losses per se, but the UNC game is the one where they might have had the most impact int hat direction.

    mrterpfan ●

  • mrterpfan said...

    I think the last 4 games was the worst four game stretch of officiating that I can remember. Duke, Va. Tech, Miami, and UNC were all awful officiating. They were pretty bad both ways in all four, maybe less in our favor vs. Duke than any of the others, but they were overall terrible in each of those games. I can't say that I thought they "cost us" any of the losses per se, but the UNC game is the one where they might have had the most impact int hat direction.

    I would say of all of those games, if officiating cost us the game in any of them, it would have been the Miami game. That missed offensive goaltending and the phantom fouls in the OT periods were killers.

    Gumbercules ●

  • That's true, strictly in the sense of that game being closer at the end so one or two calls could have possibly made the difference, but I guess I thought we got the benefit of more of the dubious calls overall vs. Miami than we did against UNC, particularly down the stretch of the UNC game where it started to get away and we got nothing at all from the zebras. That offensive goaltend was an absolutely killer though, I agree with that.

    mrterpfan ●

  • I'm not big on officiating causing games because it often is bigger than one or two whistles, but yesterday the referees were horrific. I don't think it cost Maryland the game, but it hurt both teams and ruined what was a tremendous game by disrupting the flow of the game. Simply put, the referees became the show and as a fan, that's the last thing you want to see.

    They were in the bonus like 5 minutes into the second half on some incredibly touchy fouls. A little more discretion would have gone a long way, not to mention some of the calls they flat out blew.

    patterp09

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