I think the important takeaway from our fans' shameful conduct with respect to Mr. Higgins is that it worked.
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Lesson learned and the system works. LAW!
Really makes no sense, but I actually root for shooters to go cold in the last week of the regular season, and the SEC Tourney. Law of averages, they’re gonna get hot eventually — and I want it to be in the Big Dance.
That’s how that works. Or something like that.
That’s how that works. Or something like that.
Yes.
He is the only player that I have seen have flawless halves of basketball over and over. For his size and activity level, he should average more than 1 foul per 14.5 minutes of gameplay.
In the home game against UVA, he has 18pts on 6 FG (fg in the paint) with 3 steals, 3 blocks (aggressive D) and ZERO fouls in 36 minutes. That is unheard of.
Not so sure about that score, legalbeagle. 1-1 IMO.
Must take into account the comfort knowing that Higgins wasted A TON of money litigating that case.
And Higgins will never officiate another UK game again. Once again The Faithful come through.
It was all just to lay the groundwork for the 2019 rematch.
Thinking big picture / playing the long game - BJW is smarter than given credit for.
(Maybe not).
Thinking big picture / playing the long game - BJW is smarter than given credit for.
(Maybe not).
Lets not forget it was the Higgins crew who missed the shot clock violation in 2015. he should have been strung up for that alone.
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You could argue that BBN showed a lot of restraint by not resorting to those actions earlier, really. We were almost forced to act.
The NYT published this 7 hours ago. These poor guys getting yelled out for sucking ass.
“The speed of information is causing referees to be more visible,” said J.D. Collins, the N.C.A.A.’s national coordinator of men’s basketball officials. “Our best hope is to have us be invisible, do our job and go home. But I’m afraid we are no longer in that environment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/sports/ncaa-tournament-referees.html
“The speed of information is causing referees to be more visible,” said J.D. Collins, the N.C.A.A.’s national coordinator of men’s basketball officials. “Our best hope is to have us be invisible, do our job and go home. But I’m afraid we are no longer in that environment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/sports/ncaa-tournament-referees.html
I'm no lawyer but to me that ruling reads almost like the Judge gets it.
If you're doing your job correctly you should be invisible.
I may or may not have written a scathing review of Higgins’ business in a redassed fueled fit of rage that Sunday night calling Higgins a gutless, blind bastard who does shit work. We have some BJW in all of us.
I'd like to introduce "Plaintiff's Exhibit 1."
I just got really angry.
Yet even as the light on officiating gets harsher, an analysis of all N.C.A.A. tournament games last year found that officials made the right call 94.75 percent of the time when they blew their whistles, Collins said. No calls, where no whistle was blown on close plays, were correct about 90 percent of the time, he added.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
I am convinced that John Higgins does, in fact, shit on roofs.
Pedophiles, Referees, Murderers, Cartel Members, ISIS, Terrorists.
One of these things is worse than the others.
One of these things is worse than the others.
I would argue that's much, much worse than it sounds. The whistle gets blown constantly on obvious plays. Obvious out of bounds alone represents probably a fourth or a third of calls. Shot clock violations, jump balls, that thing where the net goes up into the rim and they have to ask one of the actual athletes to fix it for them...
94.75 percent of the time probably equates to them getting difficult calls correct at about the same rate as a coin flip.
Imagine if someone told you they don't wreck their car 94.75 percent of the time they drive. That's a horrible driver.
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I love these things b/c it reminds me that these dudes are just kids., which for me is far too easy to forget sometimes.
Keldon always has to have the last word in every one of them, he cracks me TF up.
Keldon always has to have the last word in every one of them, he cracks me TF up.
Can you imagine the embarrassment of losing tomorrow 2 vs 15? Much less being the first 1 vs 16 EVER to lose that game![[sick]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/sick/sick0006.r191677.gif "Sick [sick]")
The amount of stress I went through for that Wisky F4 was unnecessary, so much so that a UK/Duke final is something I’m not sure my health could deal with.
The amount of stress I went through for that Wisky F4 was unnecessary, so much so that a UK/Duke final is something I’m not sure my health could deal with.
Can’t imagine how bad your wife would get it if we lost tomorrow.
Your achilles couldn’t handle the first trip down the floor in pick-up so you’re smart to exercise caution with even watching basketball, krazy.
Hey man, just sitting here trying to help you out but seriously- think about taking a break.Can you imagine the embarrassment of losing tomorrow 2 vs 15? Much less being the first 1 vs 16 EVER to lose that game
The amount of stress I went through for that Wisky F4 was unnecessary, so much so that a UK/Duke final is something I’m not sure my health could deal with.
Your pal,
MaxP
They do this analysis but then later admit to NOT tracking technical fouls this year.
I felt terrible for the injury, krazy is a good dude -- but, it was indeed the first trip down the floor, first run of the season, score 0-0. Unreal.
I embarrassed myself screaming at Doug Shows Saturday in Nashville. At one point 4-5 older gentlemen BJWs joined in. It felt good at the time.
I also yelled expletives about HOFCJC, yelled at my father and poked a 300lb+ UT fan in the chest sitting behind me. I have a hard time in public in those types of environments. Spent an hour in silence in the Hilton lobby by myself to cool off. This. Is. March.
I also yelled expletives about HOFCJC, yelled at my father and poked a 300lb+ UT fan in the chest sitting behind me. I have a hard time in public in those types of environments. Spent an hour in silence in the Hilton lobby by myself to cool off. This. Is. March.
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This is false.
It was terribly early enough to remember it this way though and pretty embarrassing.
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