I really hate Jamie Luckie

[UPitt '89]

Tries to insert himself into the game. Thinks people are paying to see him.

Incompetent referee.... blows the non-walk call, then give Jamie a T for pointing out that he blew the walk call.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Yep..totally agree.

 

[Large Panther]

Tim Higgins wannabe.

 

[Fredact]

He is out of control. He should remove himself from the game.

 

[passedout]

Even Mike Giminski made a comment about Luckie making the game about him. How do d-bags like that still exist in today's game? That guy is just flat out arrogant.

 

[Bradlib Zannamaker]

Haha, terrible push off call on that poor GT guard driving on Robinson. Seems like these refs may be turning it around!

 

[pittzap]

Just awful both ways. No flow to the game. They took turns calling fouls...on Pitt for a while then caught Tech up. No one knew what was a foul. Tech was allowed to block shots, we weren't.

I had the Duke/Wake game on at the same time, and it was ridiculous how differently the game was called.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Haha, terrible push off call on that poor GT guard driving on Robinson. Seems like these refs may be turning it around!

James baited that call...
Grabbed on long enough to show the chicken wing.

 

[dbricker]

good win, if the refs hadn't made many mystery calls, it prob would've been a blow out. Really poor refs, worse than the old BE. Smith for GT had the game of his life; against NC he also shot well, but against Tennessee he was 1-8, so maybe he just needed confidence. I thought Pitt guarded him as well as can be expected, except once when Jeter should've stayed on him. Pitt is more balanced and effective.

 

[npl1127]

I've watched him affect games negatively for years now. What gets me with him is how he gets people in foul trouble by making calls away from the ball. I'm not exactly saying his calls are phantom. More like he insists on making calls that other refs just don't make and it tends to screw up the game.

And then just like Higgins and Burr at the most critical point in the game he'll allow the kind of contact at the rim that would get you 15 yards in a football game.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

At least Higgins and burr were consistent.
That's all I ask from refs.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

At least Higgins and burr were consistent.
That's all I ask from refs.

That's the real problem with Lucky. He has no consistency to his calls what so ever. Neither did the other two guys tonight for that matter.

When he called the technical on Dixon he was 50 feet away from him and Dixon wasn't even looking in his direction. That call was ALL about him.

 

[Fredact]

It seemed that Luckie called some "gotcha" fouls on Pitt to get back at JD showing him up by still not staying in the coaches box. That seemed to force the other guys to make some make up calls against Ga Tech.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

It seemed that Luckie called some "gotcha" fouls on Pitt to get back at JD showing him up by still not staying in the coaches box.

But that gets back to the consistency issue. Yeah, Jamie Dixon (like always) was frequently pretty far out of the coaches box. He fully deserved the warning he got. He probably ought to get warned for being out of the box more often. No question.

You know who else was out of the coaches box pretty much the whole game tonight? Brian Gregory. If Jamie Dixon deserved a warning for being out of the box (and he did) then why didn't Brian Gregory get a warning for pretty much the exact same behavior? Because Jamie Lucky wouldn't know consistency if it hit him over the head with a 2 x 4, that's why.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

The ESPN3 announcers said something that bothered me.
After the T the PITT bench was on him ( Luckie ) about another call.
The announcers said PITT better be careful to not get on the wrong side of I guess his name was Luckie or he can change or takeover a game??????? Not sure of the exact wording.
Not good if officials feel its all about them and not the teams playing.
Officials in all sports need to be reminded what their responsibilities are. They're not performers on TV they're there to call a sporting event.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

The officiating from all of them last night was from incompetent to just plain awful. It almost seemed like Luckie was pulled in from off the street right before game time and told to officiate the game without knowing one thing about it at all. That's how bad he was. He wanted his 2 hours of fame and that was all that was. Someone needs to fire his ass.

 

[DT_PITT]

The officiating from all of them last night was from incompetent to just plain awful. It almost seemed like Luckie was pulled in from off the street right before game time and told to officiate the game without knowing one thing about it at all. That's how bad he was. He wanted his 2 hours of fame and that was all that was. Someone needs to fire his ass.

Jamie Luckie was considered to be one of the very best for quite a while. But he hasn't been named to official in a final four for a couple of years now.

He just seemed angry last night, and his little tizzy with Dixon last night was just plain silly.

 

[Jeffburgh]

Since the Panthers won ...

GT has some nice and tough post guys, but christ on a stick my 5-9 white arse could score in the post if I could use my off arm to clear out the way they were allowed to use their arms. Worst game I have seen with that in some time. I mean, they were calling fouls on Pitt defenders taking MMA blows to the chest.

Also, GT had at least a half dozen travels, and only half of them got called.

I do agree the calls on fouls swung a bit, with some make up calls for the Panthers, just two things that reached a level of surreal disbelief watching the game.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

Jamie Luckie was considered to be one of the very best for quite a while. But he hasn't been named to official in a final four for a couple of years now.

He just seemed angry last night, and his little tizzy with Dixon last night was just plain silly.

Being a bad official is one thing no one chooses to be bad that's incompetence and the official should find another line of work.

But being angry or vindictive is a choice and is as bad as incompetence or worse!

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

The ESPN3 announcers said something that bothered me.
After the T the PITT bench was on him ( Luckie ) about another call.
The announcers said PITT better be careful to not get on the wrong side of I guess his name was Luckie or he can change or takeover a game??????? Not sure of the exact wording.
Not good if officials feel its all about them and not the teams playing.
Officials in all sports need to be reminded what their responsibilities are. They're not performers on TV they're there to call a sporting event.

That's exactly what Gminski said (ESPN announcer). Which you are right, that is not the correct behavior officials should have and it reeks of NHL official justice where they seemingly look the other way on the Pens because they "whine".

 

[pittzap]

Since the Panthers won ...

GT has some nice and tough post guys, but christ on a stick my 5-9 white arse could score in the post if I could use my off arm to clear out the way they were allowed to use their arms. Worst game I have seen with that in some time. I mean, they were calling fouls on Pitt defenders taking MMA blows to the chest.

Also, GT had at least a half dozen travels, and only half of them got called.

I do agree the calls on fouls swung a bit, with some make up calls for the Panthers, just two things that reached a level of surreal disbelief watching the game.

Yeah, it appeared that Tech could clear out and do what they wanted underneath with no fouls being called, or they would call a foul on us. I saw Artis go to the rim a few times and physically watched him get shoved under the backboard with no calls. They were also allowed to block shots at will with no fouls.

They started evening out the calls; and some they called on Tech were ridiculous, too, like the offensive foul when James raised his hand after the whistle blew. Good officials shouldn't have to "even out calls".

The most annoying thing for players and coaches is inconsistency with calls. Changing what is a foul a few times throughout the game interrupts the flow of the game and make it hard to play; you don't know what is a foul.

 

[Harve74]

Jamie pretty much always stretches the envelope with being out of the coaching box and even far out on the floor. Nevertheless, Luckie did a poor job last night.

College basketball needs a supervisor of officials to discipline refs who take over a game like he did last night. If the game is supposed to be about the playerss being allowed to show their skills, there should be a mechanism to prevent one old angry man from taking over a game with absurd calls.

The greater issue in my mind is that I have a question for all of those well-meaning folks who called for tightening up on physical play to "open up" the game and "improve the flow".

Just HOW does 2 teams combining for 45 free throws and over 40 personal fouls improve the flow of a game?

Look, having a game called like that probably helps us, since we are leading the nation in FT shooting. But, it certainly DOESN'T help the flow and makes for a lot of long boring walks to the free throw line.

It could have been much worse if the zebras had called all of the arm-bars and hold-offs from the GT bigs in the paint.

Very poorly officiated game. Like the crew in the Miami-Duke 7-lateral game, Mr Luckie should be suspended for a week or so.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Harve, you can't just look at one game and the number of fouls called in it and use that as the barometer for "flow". The last time I saw the numbers (a couple weeks ago) teams were getting called for less than one foul more per game than last season. If anything, the real question is for the people who said the correct rules interpretations would cause a constant parade to the foul line to answer why that hasn't happened at all.

As to game flow, I don't know about everywhere else but the average length of a Pitt game is clearly considerably shorter this year than at any time in the recent past. When you play the same amount of basketball in less time that is better game flow pretty much by definition.

 

[drgags]

Who was the official that got into it with Ontario... Syracuse game???? I think. it wasn't the same one was it ???? DT you will know this for sure.

 

[DT_PITT]

Who was the official that got into it with Ontario... Syracuse game???? I think. it wasn't the same one was it ???? DT you will know this for sure.

That was Bryan Kersey.

 

[drgags]

Thanks. Don't like either of them. What is it with officials? Lol. Keep your cool and be professional.

 

[DT_PITT]

Thanks. Don't like either of them. What is it with officials? Lol. Keep your cool and be professional.

Both situations were over the top. Kersey is almost never like that.
They are people, I guess.

 

[levance2]

Both situations were over the top. Kersey is almost never like that.
They are people, I guess.

I have no tolerance for an official chasing down a player or coach, then not calling something. Either be the bigger man and walk away calmly, or appropriately punish someone for what they did. There's no reason a ref should be chasing a graduate manager across the court, and end up walking back with nothing. I don't care if he cut Lett a break on it or not, maybe Lett was a d-bag.

 

[DT_PITT]

I have no tolerance for an official chasing down a player or coach, then not calling something. Either be the bigger man and walk away calmly, or appropriately punish someone for what they did. There's no reason a ref should be chasing a graduate manager across the court, and end up walking back with nothing. I don't care if he cut Lett a break on it or not, maybe Lett was a d-bag.

No doubt. If Lett was out of line, quietly call the T and alert the scorer's table that the Cuse will start the next half shooting a T and that's that (and leave). I don't think I've ever seen a ref chase down an assistant who was leaving the court.

It was bizarre to say the least.