How many refs are there? i.e. he's 28 out of what
Hopefully these guys don't have any more RU games because shafting us can't be good for their kenpom.
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Hopefully these guys don't have any more RU games because shafting us can't be good for their kenpom.
When did the player gain control of the ball, before or after they were on the floor?
Not necessarily. Your angle, from above the play might be better than the angle the official had on the court.
I believe they are allowed to ask an official to go to the scorer's table and review a play to see if a flagrant foul call is warranted, even if no personal foul was even called on a play, or should be reduced to a normal personal foul.
Kenpom ranks 200 game officials. So if someone is No. 28 they're pretty good. Doesn't mean they don't miss calls or can't have a bad game.
I think these two points go hand in hand. When refs are working too many games, especially games on back to back nights with travel in between - and especially when they also have a day job, as many of them do - I'd have to think their ability to get in proper position becomes compromised.
I have to imagine that officials with day jobs don't really have typical 9-5 jobs. They would need jobs with enough flexibility to allow them to travel around the country for 5 months. While their performance might be impaired by reffing too many games, I wouldn't think their day jobs play a factor.
I remember an article from years back that the salary for reffing games isn't enough to live on for most referees, unless they are working the top conferences and have a ton of games - so they have other jobs, too.
Even a top official like Gene Steratore had another job running a janitorial supply company. Larry Sicrotto was an assistant police chief. Officiating is usually a part-time job on top of something else for most of these guys.
And it's not that the day jobs necessarily are physically taxing, but they're mentally taxing and take hours out of their days during the week, too. A guy may be an official 100 days from November to March, traveling game to game and state to state, and also be working 30-40 hours a week. That can absolutely contribute to them being a step slow, or not completely mentally sharp.
I did notice that. Not sure what he said or did; but the referee was certainly was not happy about it. Security intervened. I too thought that he might be on his way out.
This is true, and could also be asked for in a 2/3 scenario. Last 2 minutes they can also ask for clock adjustments and last touch on OOB. College BB really needs to reel in the amount of reviews in late game scenarios. You can adjust the clock by .1 or .2 on every single made basket, and nearly every OOB play is close enough to look at in a close game. It's absurd. Give each team 1 challenge in last 2 minutes on clock or OOB play, and a 2nd if they are correct.
Nice! Scorcese might be 10-15 years older, but this is dead on.
They aren’t wrong though. It’s not a conspiracy necessarily ie orders coming from Jimbo in Chicago BUT rather it’s a cultural thing for the officials who are accustomed to a traditional Big Ten style of play and the original teams.
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