In My 29 Years of Life on this Planet, I Have Never Seen This Before (Pat Adams ejected announcer).

[MWes11]

Our two favorite refs, Pat Adams and Doug Sirmons, were reffing the Horizon League semi-final and threw out the Green Bay play-by-play announcer during the game. THE PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER!! Are you kidding me? They made him leave the floor and go back to the locker room for an extended period of time before they let him come back out and resume his play-by-play job. Please, keep these two dipsh*ts away from our games.

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/green-bay-announcer-ejected/

 

[Stonewall12]

How are they still employed?

 

[TrustinCal]

Wow. They need their jobs taken away.

 

[NCukcat62]

That is absolutely ridiculous. These two guys are thugs in stripes. They think they can bully their way into doing anything they want. There comes a time and a place where refs like these 2 losers have to answer for their actions. Karma always has knack for coming back on people.

 

[TIE543]

They've gone mad with power!

 

[FiveStarCat]

How does he not have thicker skin at this point?

 

[GGCAT]

No way would I have left that scorers table. No freaking way. They would have to remove me by force and made a whole bigger deal about it just to amplify the arrogance and ignorance of officials who think they are above the game and that people specifically come to the games to see them ref.

I didn't turn on the GB Valpo game until late but saw Adams and Sirmons on the court, turned to the wife and said...."Something ridiculous will or has happened in this game."

Little did I know.

 

[docholiday51]

Wow.these guys are certifiable nut cases,imagine if they had tried to throw Cawood out of a game.

 

[DCFseattle]

i've got the link copied to my clipboard, ready to post this same nonsense.

i'm not even sure what it is i think about it. like... i know it's dumb... but i'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around it.

 

[Ugoff]

That's just bad, but it has happened before. No surprise here:

Gonzaga Elated While Huggins Ejected
March 21, 2003|By Chris Dufresne Sports correspondent
SALT LAKE CITY — File this in the log under: Things You Don't See Every Day.

The Cincinnati Bearcats got booted Thursday from NCAA Tournament along with their head coach and the team's radio color analyst -- no, it wasn't station WKRP.

No. 9 Gonzaga defeated No. 8 Cincinnati 74-69 in a wild and often frenetic first-round West Regionalgame at the Huntsman Center.

Gonzaga (24-8) meets No. 1 Arizona in a second-round game Saturday.

For a recap of Thursday's action, we turn to Bearcats play-by-play radio announcer Dan Hoard, who described the key moments of second-half action on WLW-AM 700.

Coach Huggins has just been ejected, and he's about to be joined by my partner!

It was nuts, all right.

With Gonzaga up 47-40, Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins went gonzo on referee Mike Kitts after Bearcats forward Jason Maxiell was called for traveling in the back court when Huggins clearly thought hisplayer was fouled.

Huggins screamed in protest and received a technical for leaving the coaching box. A few seconds later, Huggins was hit with a second technical for refusing to leave the floor. He was escorted away at the 16:17 mark, jawing to police officers as he was led up the corridor.

This is the same Huggins who, last Sept. 28, suffered a near-fatal heart attack in Pittsburgh, a traumatic experience that apparently has not tempered his on-court passion nor his hair-trigger temper.

Meanwhile, courtside, Bearcats color commentator Chuck Machock did not wish to confine his feelings only to his listening audience. When Kitts got within earshot, Machock blistered the referee with a foul-mouth tirade.

 

[StubbornPenny]

I guess the refs have the discretion to remove anyone that's impeding the game, but WOW. I've never, ever, ever, ever seen anything like this. A radio announcer can't be a homer? What about those "homer" simulcasts they've been doing during the NCAAs? Do we just throw them out when they're being too demonstrative? Where's the line? Where does it end?

Absolutely embarrassing behavior by the refs. I wouldn't have left either, I'd be like "I'm paid to be here, and I'm going to stay and do my job." I can't believe the NCAA lets these fools grandstand like this. Unbelievable, yet sadly, totally believable...

 

[NCukcat62]

Wow.these guys are certifiable nut cases,imagine if they had tried to throw Cawood out of a game.

Imagine if they still did it to leach or Pratt, Bbn would make their life a living hell

 

[StubbornPenny]

That's just bad, but it has happened before. No surprise here:

Gonzaga Elated While Huggins Ejected
March 21, 2003|By Chris Dufresne Sports correspondent
SALT LAKE CITY — File this in the log under: Things You Don't See Every Day.

The Cincinnati Bearcats got booted Thursday from NCAA Tournament along with their head coach and the team's radio color analyst -- no, it wasn't station WKRP.

No. 9 Gonzaga defeated No. 8 Cincinnati 74-69 in a wild and often frenetic first-round West Regionalgame at the Huntsman Center.

Gonzaga (24-8) meets No. 1 Arizona in a second-round game Saturday.

For a recap of Thursday's action, we turn to Bearcats play-by-play radio announcer Dan Hoard, who described the key moments of second-half action on WLW-AM 700.

Coach Huggins has just been ejected, and he's about to be joined by my partner!

It was nuts, all right.

With Gonzaga up 47-40, Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins went gonzo on referee Mike Kitts after Bearcats forward Jason Maxiell was called for traveling in the back court when Huggins clearly thought hisplayer was fouled.

Huggins screamed in protest and received a technical for leaving the coaching box. A few seconds later, Huggins was hit with a second technical for refusing to leave the floor. He was escorted away at the 16:17 mark, jawing to police officers as he was led up the corridor.

This is the same Huggins who, last Sept. 28, suffered a near-fatal heart attack in Pittsburgh, a traumatic experience that apparently has not tempered his on-court passion nor his hair-trigger temper.

Meanwhile, courtside, Bearcats color commentator Chuck Machock did not wish to confine his feelings only to his listening audience. When Kitts got within earshot, Machock blistered the referee with a foul-mouth tirade.

Well, fair enough, I guess it has happened a good 13 years ago. Still, embarrassing behavior by the refs.

 

[ukalum]

I saw a Cub game a few years ago. The fans sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch, and a special guest in the broadcat booth always leads the fans in singing. In this game, the guest made some snide remark about the home plate umpire during the song. The ump looked up to the broadcast booth and ejected the guest from the park.

 

[moe#8]

I say we hire a hit man to kill em both. Can Rafters ring up that kind of coin?

yeah

 

[rick64]

Source: KSR

"Two all-too-familiar faces officiated last night’s semifinal of the Horizon League Tournament, and you won’t be the least bit surprised by a bizarre plot twist during the game.


Pat Adams — yes, the Pat Adams who T’d up Isaac Humphries at Texas A&M — ejected the play-by-play announcer for Green Bay for demonstratively arguing a call. The broadcaster, Matt Menzel, was calling the game by himself for radio when Adams sent him to the back with an ejection.


Oakland University’s play-by-play man filled in until Menzel returned minutes later.


Also officiating the game: Doug Sirmons."

Don't boo too loud or he'll start ejecting fans next.

 

[Dallas-Wild]

Now the Nation can see just how bad these two are.

Adams may have cost us an SEC title.

 

[BurpinTurpin]

It would be one thing if this was the first controversial thing Adams (and Sirmons) have done this year- or even the past few years- but it's not. When are these guys going to be reigned in? I mean, cynicism aside, there has to come a point where their superiors have to step in.

 

[liveblue92]

#playbyplaylivesmatter

 

[Xception]

Adams dgaf

 

[KMKAT]

Now the Nation can see just how bad these two are.

Adams may have cost us an SEC title.

I'll disagree; I like our slot more than the early times the #1 seed plays.

Only our guys will cost us/win us a title. We can win despite the inconsistencies of calls on the court.

 

[Dallas-Wild]

I'll disagree; I like our slot more than the early times the #1 seed plays.

Only our guys will cost us/win us a title. We can win despite the inconsistencies of calls on the court.

Agree with the slot we are in.....I did say "may have" but the timing of a call in a game CAN change the outcome.

 

[MWes11]

#playbyplaylivesmatter

 

[Zakk Wyldcat]

Wow. Where to start? With the power-crazed Adams who has about 100 chips on his shoulder? Or with the conference which lets this ass officiate? Or with the arena security which went right along with escorting a guy out of there? Just an all-around pathetic display from every party involved...

 

[FlCATFan]

This is certainly crossing a 1st Amendment line. The announcer should sue the NCAA for violation of his rights.

 

[NCukcat62]

This is certainly crossing a 1st Amendment line. The announcer should sue the NCAA for violation of his rights.

I agree.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Loved this little tidbit:

In 2012, a minor league umpire ejected a stadium’s organist after he played, “Three Blind Mice.”

 

[BoulderCat]

I got 30 years on you OP, and I've never heard of that either. SMH. I would think only the police or the venue's security could order essentially a by-stander off the court, or out of the arena. Have to let the Rafter's legal team weigh in on that one. I can read a statue same as they can, but have no idea where this one would be. In the NCAA by-laws maybe.

 

[BlobUK]

Adams and Sirmons refereeing the same game. Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?

 

[Pygmy Sasquatch]

Those two guys need to have their kneecaps adjusted, both guys, both knees.

 

[Elliott Tim]

I say we hire a hit man to kill em both. Can Rafters ring up that kind of coin?

And put a horse head in each of their beds.

 

[PhattyJ4UK]

Wonder what it would take...if we get him for a tourny game, I might drive from Birmingham and hold him hostage for 3 hours starting right before tip


Adams seriously sucks ...and I'm sure his life is miserable. .has to be with how angry he is

 

[Reber3]

Yeah, I remember when Chuck got ejected during the Gonzaga game.

 

[docholiday51]

And put a horse head in each of their beds.

A deflated basketball might do the trick

 

[kats23]

You don't see anything in the video that would warrant a toss . I saw the organist thrown out at a Redbirds game when I was a kid and Buddy Bat got tossed a few years ago as well by an umpire during an inning. They said in the article the announcer made a demonstrative call but come on, short of guy pointing you out and showing you up or saying something directly , it couldn't of been any worse than what any head coach does at every call.

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

I say we hire a hit man to kill em both. Can Rafters ring up that kind of coin?

If they find out then the world will start thinking we hate special needs people.

those two are obviously so corrupt that I'm sure if people could get some private investigators to follow them, a book and movie deal later on would more than pay for itself haha. Call it blowing the whistle. A tale of two douches

 

[crazyqx83]

I would have told the jackass to talk to the university attorney. Until then, I'm not going anywhere.

 

[KMKAT]

Wow. Where to start? With the power-crazed Adams who has about 100 chips on his shoulder? Or with the conference which lets this ass officiate? Or with the arena security which went right along with escorting a guy out of there? Just an all-around pathetic display from every party involved...

You know, that's no more pathetic than allowing Roy to eject a Presbyterian fan from Chapel Hill from being ejected by cheering against the beloved cheaters. That's the ultimate thin skinned move.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

This is from the Green Bay paper:

Noteworthy:UWGB radio announcer Matt Menzl briefly was off the air during the game after referee Pat Adams kicked him off press row for what Menzl described as a misunderstanding.

Menzl said Adams thought he was waving him off after a call went against the Phoenix.

“I talk with my hands,” Menzl said. “I was trying to describe that we had two guys fighting for the ball, and he took it as I waved him off, like saying that’s a horrible call.

“At first he gave me a warning. Then two seconds later said, ‘I want this guy removed and I won’t start the game until he gets removed.’”

Menzl had to hand over his headset to an Oakland play-by-play announcer and went into the tunnel, where he explained the situation to UWGB athletic director Mary Ellen Gillespie and Horizon League spokesman Bill Potter.

Potter told Menzl to go back and that they’d deal with it.

“I maybe missed actual game action, a couple minutes,” Menzl said.


Adams is so pathetic and weak that he can't tolerate nondescript hand waiving? How absurd. It's interesting that a Horizon league official sent him back to work. Enough is enough with these Napoleonic little tyrants. I wonder if the NCAA is going to reward their pathetic behavior by having them deep into the NCAAT again. That is the sad part. The idiots who run the conferences and the NCAA are causing this nonsense by rewarding it. Rewarding bad behavior always makes it worse.

 

[jrm693]

Wow.these guys are certifiable nut cases,imagine if they had tried to throw Cawood out of a game.

Not defending them at all but Cawood would have not argued a call with the referees, he would have just mentioned"not a good call" Those guys will get tried everywhere they go as the certainly have developed a reputation.