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Great effort from UK under incredibly difficult circumstances. Sad and pathetic ending.
Great effort from UK under incredibly difficult circumstances. Sad and pathetic ending.
Very, very, very difficult to not consider SEC road games a complete joke
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The t may have been the correct call but the kid walked on that last play.
You know once the refs are putting all that emphasis in calling the calls it's going be a long night. There was that one instance where they blew the whistle and the two refs just stated at each for about 10 secs before calling a charge on us.
Refs are getting worse and worse. They need to overhaul this whole thing. Pressure needs to be put on the refs, players and coaches must speak to the media and now I think refs should to. Coaches should be allowed to grade officials and perhaps some type of committee to review the games as well. It's gotten out of hand. The refs play into the home teams crowd way too much. I don't know what it's like in other conferences, but this is a big time problem in the SEC.
Refs are getting worse and worse. They need to overhaul this whole thing. Pressure needs to be put on the refs, players and coaches must speak to the media and now I think refs should to. Coaches should be allowed to grade officials and perhaps some type of committee to review the games as well. It's gotten out of hand. The refs play into the home teams crowd way too much. I don't know what it's like in other conferences, but this is a big time problem in the SEC.
They walked all damned game. ALL. DAMNED. GAME.
Funny that we keep losing games like this. We may kill teams in march by 40 when we start getting unbiased officiating.
It's the conference as a whole. The SEC only gives a damn about football and hopes that Kentucky is good to make money until football starts again. The result of that is awful basketball for most of the league (this year has been better than the last several) and no commitment to having quality officials or facilities. If we could jump to another conference, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I don't think people understand the system as it works now.....college basketball officials are "independent contractors" who are NOT GRADED by the conferences AT ALL during the season. They are graded once the ncaa tournament starts and the best officials get to call the later rounds who are graded out positively. Is it a coincidence that the best officiating of the year is during the NCAA tournament???? GRADE THEM THROUGHOUT THE YEAR!!! Just like the NBA.
Agree 100%. League officials are a complete joke. Have been ever since the early part of the decade.
I'm all for going to the ACC, Big East or even AAC. Obviously wouldn't hurt our seeding, ex Nova, also couldn't hurt in football, ex Louisville. Any conferences have an exclusive contract with Fox Sports?
The part about coaches grading officials is dead on. Part of the problem with college officials is that they are graded almost exclusively by other (ex) officials. And as anyone can tell from watching any kind of "ask a ref" stuff (in almost any sport), officials or ex-officials almost ALWAYS find justifications for anything the actual officials call.
I appreciate that officiating is incredibly difficult, and I'm NOT some gigantic ref hater. But damn, man, how can there be these huge foul differentials in almost EVERY SEC road game? Foul differentials that lessen or vanish completely when UK plays at home. And it's like that in every SEC road game, not just UK (although I think UK gets it worse, because UK draws bigger, far more boisterous crowds).
The NBA changed their game by putting pressure on officials to lessen the amount of contact allowed. They did that by having more people grading officials than just a good ol' boy network of ex-refs. Colleges need to move in the same direction, and giving coaches a voice would be a start. We have competing interests that would potentially negate each other, so if a certain ref is hated by a certain coach, it would mean little. But if EVERY coach thinks a certain ref is bad? Guess what...he almost certainly is, and shouldn't be doing games.
Yup. Refs do need to feel the pressure, everybody else has to account for their actions during the game...except for the stripes. I see nothing wrong in letting coaches submit reviews on their game officials, just a quick questionnaire would suffice. These should be submitted to a committee for review, they do not need to be known to the officials as that would create more bias. The current situation is you have coaches who have to go through the media to call out the refs and that of course creates drama and vendettas. If you could have a committee created of former refs, former coaches, and perhaps sports journalist you could have three different views on grading officials and looking at complaints. I don't know, but the current system isn't working and it's becoming painfully obvious.
