Anyone else disgusted with the officials?
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I've lost the very last little bit of respect I had left of Bob Huggins after reading this. Granted, I didn't have much respect left for the guy anyway, but now it's all gone. How can you have much respect for a guy that at Cincy hardly graduated one single player in ALL of his tenure there? You can't.
But if he thinks his team got screwed over by the refs last night, then he sure didn't watch the same game anyone else did. His team does nothing but mug you to death. His all-star PG constantly reached on defense, and on multiple occasions just plowed into the lane running ISU guys over and he gets called for ZERO fouls the entire night?
And what irritated me the most was all their guys crashing the offensive glass all night right over the backs of our guys and never getting called for it. That is WV's strategy. Throw up bricks, and then everyone crash the boards hard and hope to get a garbage putback. That is what their offense consists of.
C'mon Huggy, even you know you're team got away with a LOT last night.
That play where Monte threw the ball away, and then mauled the guy to get it back, that led to ISU getting a basket, wasn't slanted to WVU.
Lots of odd calls, but lots of non-calls too.
There's a few times where moving the feet on defense helps to prevent a foul getting called.
Lots of odd calls, but lots of non-calls too.
There's a few times where moving the feet on defense helps to prevent a foul getting called.
Agree, that was a missed call on Morris. Ok, there's one. WVU still had a 104 to 1 lead in that category.
The ref didn't call it because he missed the foul before that. The guy hit Monte's arm and that's why the pass went to the defender.
Or maybe, just maybe, if the refs started calling every foul last night the players would eventually adjust and STOP FOULING so we could actually watch a basketball game and not a slugfest that makes our eyes bleed. Like someone else said, the idea that just declaring you're a physical team lets you get away with fouling is asinine.
I think more likely we just would have had more people foul out, which is fine too since that's the rule, but I don't see WVU adjusting their style of play like that.
If they consistently had 3 starters fouling out in the first half they wouldn't be winning games and probably have to adjust. I don't think you should excuse excessive fouling by just calling it a style of play.
Yes. Different play style should result in different foul counts.
Teams that press and trap the whole game shouldn't get out fouled by teams that play passive help defense.
Your dumber than I thought
Dear Bob Huggins,
Your team lost by at least 10-15 points last night and was helped out by the refs.
Signed,
Anyone with eyes
Actually that's a very smart player putting a bad ref on the spot over his horrible call in not calling a foul. Monte never loses the ball in the first place if the officials call fouls on WVU during that play.
Just because Huggins style forces refs to become lazy and call MORE fouls on the team that is fouling less, doesn't mean the officials are doing their job by getting duped into that. It means they suck at their job that night.
Well, when your team is KU.....it's probably hard to remember much of anything being called.
Hint to Fran and officials working WVU games...if it's so hard to ref a team that fouls every single play...maybe don't call more fouls on the team that is getting hacked to death and just trying to avoid contact.
