I’m tired of having to play in a conference that makes calls based on the number of fouls each team has… as opposed to who is actually fouling.
The Richmond game and now the Xavier game featured wildy inconsistent calls from the refs. Richmond and Xavier played a very physical game racking up the foul count in their favor… however we did not. And when the foul differential was 6-1 or 8-1 in our favor the refs would start calling touch fouls on us to even the count.
After Richmond I decided to bring my video camera to the game so that I could try to capture some bad calls on tape and maybe get some attention focused on how these calls cost us games… well I got a bit lucky and the 49ers got a little unlucky and I captured this footage which I have edited to emphasize the atrocity we have to deal with as 49ers fans.
I'm tired of having to play in a conference that makes calls based on the number of fouls each team has... as opposed to who is actually fouling.
The Richmond game and now the Xavier game featured wildy inconsistent calls from the refs. Richmond and Xavier played a very physical game racking up the foul count in their favor… however we did not. And when the foul differential was 6-1 or 8-1 in our favor the refs would start calling touch fouls on us to even the count.
After Richmond I decided to bring my video camera to the game so that I could try to capture some bad calls on tape and maybe get some attention focused on how these calls cost us games… well I got a bit lucky and the 49ers got a little unlucky and I captured this footage which I have edited to emphasize the atrocity we have to deal with as 49ers fans.
I get the feeling this call is going to become some sort of an obession. I hated to lose last night more then anything. But I am more upset with miss free throws and out of control 3’s shot in the 2nd half then the call. It was a crappy call, but make your free throws and don’t shoot a 3 pointer with 25-30 ticks left on the shot clock and maybe we dont’ get in that position.
[QUOTE=switchfoot;295325]I get the feeling this call is going to become some sort of an obession. I hated to lose last night more then anything. But I am more upset with miss free throws and out of control 3’s shot in the 2nd half then the call. It was a crappy call, but make your free throws and don’t shoot a 3 pointer with 25-30 ticks left on the shot clock.[/QUOTE]
There was still 1:55 left with this play IIRC. It didn’t give X the win, but it left a bad taste. The video would be great if it had the ref in view that made the blocking call…
I don’t think you guys are understanding happycamper’s motives. This video isn’t to place blame, IMO, but to bring evidence to the table that supports the opinion that A10 refs are, shall we say, less than adequate, and to give evidence to support our call for change.
[QUOTE=thelew1014;295334]I don’t think you guys are understanding happycamper’s motives. This video isn’t to place blame, IMO, but to bring evidence to the table that supports the opinion that A10 refs are, shall we say, less than adequate, and to give evidence to support our call for change.[/QUOTE]
I don’t think it completely paints the picture though Lew. The charge/block was only half of the problem. The bigger issue here is over riding calls. Not sure some of the commentary in there was necessary.
There was a stretch of several minutes where all we attempted were Ally-Oops and out of control 3’s early in the shot clock. Ulimately we can only blame ourselves.
[QUOTE=donkeyjaws;295349]There was a stretch of several minutes where all we attempted were Ally-Oops and out of control 3’s early in the shot clock. Ulimately we can only blame ourselves.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Like coach said last night, the officiating was very poor and quite disappointing, but [I][B]we[/B][/I] lost the game.
I'm tired of having to play in a conference that makes calls based on the number of fouls each team has... as opposed to who is actually fouling.
The Richmond game and now the Xavier game featured wildy inconsistent calls from the refs. Richmond and Xavier played a very physical game racking up the foul count in their favor… however we did not. And when the foul differential was 6-1 or 8-1 in our favor the refs would start calling touch fouls on us to even the count.
After Richmond [SIZE=5]I decided to bring my video camera to the game[/SIZE] so that I could try to capture some bad calls on tape and maybe get some attention focused on how these calls cost us games… well I got a bit lucky and the 49ers got a little unlucky and I captured this footage which I have edited to emphasize the atrocity we have to deal with as 49ers fans.
Well, this brings up an interesting issue -> Should we be video taping the A-10 ref’s (at least at Halton) in order to build a library of A-10 Niner Ref bloopers? Don’t know if the A-10 seems to care, but we could argue our complaint more effectively. Perhaps we could at least get decent, qualified ref’s for our home conf games?
PS: Look at Lutz right there calling for the basket and a blocking foul!!!
I don't think you guys are understanding happycamper's motives. This video isn't to place blame, IMO, but to bring evidence to the table that supports the opinion that A10 refs are, shall we say, less than adequate, and to give evidence to support our call for change.
Xavier didn’t play a perfect game either but they still won. We made a lot of mistakes last night, many of which can be improved upon before we head up to fordham but that is not to say that some of the methods the A10 refs use when making calls lead to inconsistencies. We truly lost the game when Xavier went up 7 with a few mins to go because our offense couldn’t convert.
The more videos like this that we can compile, the more evidence we have of bad calls. I wouldn’t mind seeing calls that are bad which go in the favor of our opponents (i.e. bad calls on Xavier that benefited us).
The charge call in the video wasn’t the worst call last night, it was just the one I got on tape. My nomination for worst call goes to the ball that Dewhurst punched in the air being called a reach-in.
And the video was taken from my Canon Powershot A650 which has quite a good resolution, especially for catching refs in action.
But the real question I have: Do other schools question calls as much as we do? Are we just the forty-whiners or are the refs really that bad. It seemed like in CUSA we didn’t complain quite as much because the officiating quality was a lot better.
The video also shows Duncan was 3-4 feet beyond the 3-point line when he took the shot and Coley was running at him while he took it. That was nothing but a big play from a big-time player.
