Refs make the SEC unwatchable

[TheDude73]

52 fouls in A&M vs Vandy

And the SEC league office just says "hehehe, man look how PHYSICAL our league is!!"

And then comes the NCAAT - half of the SEC teams get knocked out because that physicality they got away with from the league refs trying to portray this "so physical" and "tough" league gets laughed off the court.

It's like clockwork every year the SEC is strong - this "physicality" is worthless when the refs will just foul your ass out and set the game straight early on.

 

[TheDude73]

I don’t even care so much about the disparity in the numbers. It’s just awful how bad many of the calls are, and even worse are the no calls.

I counted at least 15 times OU's players moved during screens. That was just when I decided to start looking because it was obvious a few times with no calls. They and many other teams now use those "whoops I'm moving in that direction" as "screens" when it's clearly an effort to hide a moving screen but still screen the player.

Almost every time they screened at the top of the key their feet were moving. Or they'd do a quick hitter screen then roll into another fully-moving screen of another player to free up the lane. It's like they are acting like they are just moving to a new spot on the floor, but oddly and conveniently that moving to another spot involves bodying up against a defender as if that defender is arbitrarily in their way to that said spot. What they are really doing is, MOVING SCREENING!

And then there was that blatant bad call against Brea when the dude hooked his arm around his body to get to the rim. Just god awful obvious - there was no way one of the three refs didn't see that arm wrapped around our guy. Total hook and shove to get clearance to the lane.

Oh and the out of bounds on one end of the court. Dude clearly was the last one to touch it, one ref called it our way but that idiot vampire looking dude waved it off. Of course they didn't replay it, so I did. We had no hands anywhere near the ball - the OU player was 100% the last one to touch it - there wasn't even a reason to dispute.

 

[TheDude73]

Last night KY had 21 fouls and OK had 2 fouls. The refs do not have anything against us or any other team. We are playing is an time that will continue to emulate the NBA as far as fouls. The refs no doubt have been, for past couple of years, been told to let the play. What use to be fouls are no longer called. Last night we fouled several times as did OK that were not called and will not be called in future games. Why we continue to cry , it the damn refs, is foolish. Actually last night I thouf=ghtwe had a better whistle than the home team. It is not going to change, and Pope will at some point teach tough man to man agressive defense. To do this we need quicker kids recruited going forward.

You must be a ref. Gotta stand up for your brethren, even when they suck bad!

 

[TheDude73]

I said that a few times. The officiating is really had in the Big East and I watched Illinois get completely screwed at Michigan State.

But that doesn't mean those leagues call more fouls, it just means the officiating controlled the games and favored one team.

The SEC led the nation in foul calls last year by a lot and I bet it leads again this year.

All I can hear when I read your post is Jimmy Dykes saying "man, the SEC is the most physical team in college basketball, historically!"

That's how it's justified. The SEC league office is football first, and they love the idea that the image that our league gives off is that we're a physical, TOUGH league. But none of that translates to the NCAAT. All that beating up on each other all year long is actually a negative come tournament time.

 

[TheDude73]

2 hours and 45 minutes for a game that didn't go into any overtimes is ridiculous.

And took away 15 minutes of the start of my recorded YouTubeTV game. I was pissed to come on and see the start of my recording showing the end of that Vandy game only to find out there was only 6:44 left in the first half of the UK game. Just pissed.

Why can't YTTV figure out a way to record the alternate channel???

 

[sambowieshin]

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Total BS. So was the overruled out of bounds call off of the OK player with about 11 min in the game.
It wasn't even a close call and I think it was Shows that overruled the ref that called it off OK.
Don't care what anyone says.... Some of these refs are crooked AF.

 

[wldktz8]

The fact that there were reviewing the end of the game to possibly issue a technical on UK is almost criminal. It would have been an injustice to that game. Just end the game and get out of there.

 

[Dablueman]

Point spread was 2.5 UK won by 1 they got the job done that Vegas paid em to do.

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

Point spread was 2.5 UK won by 1 they got the job done that Vegas paid em to do.

For the people that believe this kind of thing so intensely, I wonder what is even the point of you watching sports. In your mind, you might as well be watching a predetermined fake sport like WWE

 

[Friedas_Boss]

Y'all's new coach is doing a good job this year. I guess you're pleased with him.

We love him. Regardless of whether we get into the Big Dance or not, we know we hired a good one. Good person, good teacher, and most of all, Byington’s teams fight like hell. Fun to watch even if we aren’t the most talented team.

 

[southvillecat]

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Is that the one they went back and looked at and gave the foul to Butler? If so, that’s even more egregious since Butler was nowhere near him.

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

Is that the one they went back and looked at and gave the foul to Butler? If so, that’s even more egregious since Butler was nowhere near him.

You mean when the refs did us a solid and took Amari’s third foul away? Weird thing to complain about. If they hadn’t changed it, we’d have less Amari on the floor

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Is that the one they went back and looked at and gave the foul to Butler? If so, that’s even more egregious since Butler was nowhere near him.

Yes

 

[littlecreek]

We love him. Regardless of whether we get into the Big Dance or not, we know we hired a good one. Good person, good teacher, and most of all, Byington’s teams fight like hell. Fun to watch even if we aren’t the most talented team.

I'm in the southern part of Kentucky so I'm actually closer to Nashville than Lexington. I want Vandy to do well because they've been the underdogs so long.

 

[runt#69]

SEC teams are going to really struggle with foul trouble in the tournament. The SEC is physical, and been officiated that way. It's not gonna be that way in the NCAAT.

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I keep getting the sneaky suspicion that the SEC is going to find out in the NCAA tournament that all the physical wrestling and hand checking and movement impeding defense and knocking down players, and their own flopping, is going to get some teams upset. Won't surprise me at ALL if Kentucky is one of the last SEC schools left standing. And why ?

Because we aren't flopping or falling down trying to sell the officials on bailing us out. We're trying to finish strong and BE STRONG in the face of that. Our guys should have learned to be that way by now, instead of giving in and adopting what other teams are doing. Stay strong, finish strong and it will even out in the post season.

The SEC may be in for a shock when the other teams get the kind of neutral court whistle they are going to experience in the big dance.