The VP of officials lied according to Dan Gavitt

[Cusefan0307]

The refs saw the replay and still screwed it up. They didn't stay at the monitor long enough.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...isputed-bounds-call-duke-wisconsin-title-game

 

[upperdeck]

so they thought the other replays werent clear enough too?

did they ever really explain why the kentucky kid got nothing called the game before?

i get the replay having no central review during the season but for conf tourney and ncaa why not do so? remove the crowd and local officials from the equation when its so easy to do so..

 

[Cusefan0307]

Make the officials available to the media and all the BS is avoided.

 

[NKR1978]

This should be one of the biggest stories in sports. Just do away with replay if they're going to see video and still mess up this badly.

 

[Cusefan0307]

This should be one of the biggest stories in sports. Just do away with replay if they're going to see video and still mess up this badly.

It's not a national story because the national media likes Duke too much. If it was Syracuse..., well you know what would happen.

 

[Ringostar57]

No folks replay, just exposes the corruption makes transparent the fact that officials are a big part of the scam. Game management to foster particular outcomes is their function as handed down by the NCAA.

 

[texascpa]

1775 John Adams > 2015 John Adams

 

[orange79]

No folks replay, just exposes the corruption makes transparent the fact that officials are a big part of the scam. Game management to foster particular outcomes is their function as handed down by the NCAA.

 

[Dave85]

Make the officials available to the media and all the BS is avoided.

When I was school during home games if we did not like a refereee call we would yell out, "Hey Ref, we know where you live!"

There was a funny period of home games around 1982 - 83 where when the visitors would make a free throw everyone would yell out, "Shiite, you a**hole". And then the crowd would bust out laughing. It really caught on and got louder and louder. And then at one point, they stop the game and JB addressed the fans. He said he there's any more profanity our team would get a technical foul. So the free-throw chant stopped. But at the time it was really funny!

 

[Alsacs]

John Adams was such a joke as VP of NCAA officials. He would appear on March Madness coverage on CBS/TBS/TNT/TruTv and no matter what decision the ref did would spin it as the correct call even if it was wrong. Lying on national TV doesn't mitigate the fact the refs messed up even the NFL with Dean Blandino will admit the refs make mistakes.

NCAA basketball officials are the worst at their doing their job than referees in any other sport.

 

[Full_Rebar]

It's typical NCAA that they will even throw their own under the bus like this. Such a joke.

 

[Cusefan95]

It's typical NCAA that they will even throw their own under the bus like this. Such a joke.

The horrific officiating in the Final Four is par for the course, and a big part of why I watch less and less college basketball every year. I got roped in to watching the Final Four since I live in Wisconsin and virtually everyone I knew was watching, but man - college hoops is badly broken.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Mike wilbon ripped the officiating on PTI yesterday

 

[Col. Bleep]

The standard to reverse a call through replay is that there must be "indisputable evidence" that the call was wrong.
I've seen the close up 4 or 5 times and I'm not sure Winslow actually touched it.
At worst it barely grazed his fingertip.

Perhaps this just means that I'm blind enough to qualify as an official.
But...a game shouldn't be turned around for something like that.

And if they're not going to reverse a no foul call on the Kentucky facial slap...why even bother with the rule at all?

Besides I love fallibility. It makes the game human.

 

[NineOneSeven]

The standard to reverse a call through replay is that there must be "indisputable evidence" that the call was wrong.
I've seen the close up 4 or 5 times and I'm not sure Winslow actually touched it.
At worst it barely grazed his fingertip.

Perhaps this just means that I'm blind enough to qualify as an official.
But...a game shouldn't be turned around for something like that.

And if they're not going to reverse a no foul call on the Kentucky facial slap...why even bother with the rule at all?

Besides I love fallibility. It makes the game human.

Dude's finger bent

 

[Ghost]

The standard to reverse a call through replay is that there must be "indisputable evidence" that the call was wrong.
I've seen the close up 4 or 5 times and I'm not sure Winslow actually touched it.
At worst it barely grazed his fingertip.

Perhaps this just means that I'm blind enough to qualify as an official.
But...a game shouldn't be turned around for something like that.

And if they're not going to reverse a no foul call on the Kentucky facial slap...why even bother with the rule at all?

Besides I love fallibility. It makes the game human.

I think at one point they stopped the video with it actually sitting on his finger. Did you really see the close up??

 

[Alsacs]

The standard to reverse a call through replay is that there must be "indisputable evidence" that the call was wrong.
I've seen the close up 4 or 5 times and I'm not sure Winslow actually touched it.
At worst it barely grazed his fingertip.

Perhaps this just means that I'm blind enough to qualify as an official.
But...a game shouldn't be turned around for something like that.

And if they're not going to reverse a no foul call on the Kentucky facial slap...why even bother with the rule at all?

Besides I love fallibility. It makes the game human.

Sorry the last few replays CBS showed the audience at home had indisputable evidence the ball went off Winslow.

I wanted Duke to win and I thought that call was terrible. Winslow's finger bent it was a bad call.

 

[Alsacs]

The ball went off Winslow. I mean the NCAA wouldn't be spinning if they made the correct call.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Dude's finger bent

And the spin on the ball changed completely.

 

[jordoo]

Dude's finger bent

And the rotation of the ball changed. This us exactly the type of play they have replay for. Almost impossible to see clearly live but clear in the replay.

 

[texascpa]

I know you try to win at almost all costs, and I'm not blaming Winslow in the least, but how refreshing would it have been if Winslow went to the refs and said "look, it went off my finger, should be Badgers ball". Of course, if he had done that and lost, he would have gotten death threats. so...

 

[NineOneSeven]

I know you try to win at almost all costs, and I'm not blaming Winslow in the least, but how refreshing would it have been if Winslow went to the refs and said "look, it went off my finger, should be Badgers ball". Of course, if he had done that and lost, he would have gotten death threats. so...

Yeahhhhh...you never do that.

 

[dasher]

I know you try to win at almost all costs, and I'm not blaming Winslow in the least, but how refreshing would it have been if Winslow went to the refs and said "look, it went off my finger, should be Badgers ball". Of course, if he had done that and lost, he would have gotten death threats. so...

No one would do that. No one. This isn't golf.

 

[OttoMets]

I know you try to win at almost all costs, and I'm not blaming Winslow in the least, but how refreshing would it have been if Winslow went to the refs and said "look, it went off my finger, should be Badgers ball". Of course, if he had done that and lost, he would have gotten death threats. so...

I had a soccer player friend in college who transferred from Penn State. He quit our team after a year and ultimately played on my intramural team. Wacky kid. Anyway, he did that when a ref missed his handball in the box in our semifinal intramural game. People completely lost their minds over this bit of honesty.

In a national championship game, the reaction would be worse. Honorable, but dangerous.

 

[Halfmooncuse]

They should check for DNA. The ref could have gone to Winslow and demand that he give them the finger!