USA Today’s national columnist: If what I’m seeing tonight is an accurate representation of SEC basketball officiating, road wins should count double. Home teams getting away with some stuff.
National Writer tells what we have always know because Adolph told us
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Someone at the SEC offices sometime in the last 6-8 years decided that the only way for the SEC to stand out is to take our football league and transfer it to basketball. That means 2 months of pain only to see the SEC flop every March because no other conference refs allow this shit. So it only works for conference, but rarely in the big dance.
And when you have a national writer calling it out, it justifies the fans’ complaints.
And when you have a national writer calling it out, it justifies the fans’ complaints.
Good, they need to talk about it. Only pressure from national media may make them actually do something about it.
https://x.com/vapelawguy
lol Like this response in the comments on X I saw from your link
"Does Pope need to design a play to ensure an official catches a very hard errant pass in the face when they are stinking it up?"
Actions do speak louder than words!
This doesn’t make sense, I’ve been told by numerous fans tonight that we only lost this game because we are soft and can’t shoot.
That is blatant... These guys should never call another game. Corrupt.
Georgia guards flopped nonstop and the officials fell for it every single time. There is just zero consistency. Let both teams bang one night and the next time out, they are calling every single touch foul.
I actually did this once in a church league game. Not to the ref though. One of the opposing players undercut my cousin/friend and he had a very hard fall. He was 6'2" and went up, the guy went underneath and caused my buddy to hit the floor very hard. Whie he was out, I told his brother, who was 6'5" to stand near the guy, and to not catch the next pass I threw. I hit him square between the eyes, ball goes out of bounds off of him. My friend who was laying on his back with spasms was rolling on the floor.
What we saw from the officials tonight was beyond description. If this is what SEC road games hold in store I probably won't watch anymore. The game was a joke. UK always gets the shaft on the road but tonight was so blatant it borders on criminal. A tape of this game should go to the SEC and NCAA offices and some one should have to explain what occurred in this game.
Pope would have been justified in taking the team off the court at the last t v timeout
Pope would have been justified in taking the team off the court at the last t v timeout
There are a lot of stupid people on RR. Couldn't tell they were cut if blood were shooting out of their bloody stump. The officiating was bad well before we lost the lead but was piling pretty high before we got down by 12. Then we cut it back to 5 and the faucet was turned back on for Georgia.
To be fair to the idiots, they probably get slapped around a lot and don't see a problem with it.
Don’t worry, the officials will balance it out. Next time UK is at home, they’ll make sure there is no home cooking. LOL!
Absolutely. And it has ceased to even be the sport of basketball as it was intended.
I want to watch football when I'm watching football, and basketball when I'm watching basketball.
Coach Rupp always said we get the same officiating in the Southeastern Conference whether we are in Lexington or on the road…we get road officiating.
He coached his last game in 1972. Fifty-two years later, nothing has changed.
There was one ref back it those days who always gave us a hard time, can't remember his name right off the top of my head (Burl Crowell maybe) We always got a fair shake from George Conley until he had to stop calling our games when Larry was here.
