Officiating this year

[H2P 2003]

I honestly thought it was abysmal, especially towards the end of games.

Today, the two calls near the end were abysmal. ND player trapped in the corner and bowls over kene and he kene gets called. The call on trey where he stole the call was unbelievable.

The VT game was bad. Blackshear should have fouled out 3 times over and they kept calling everything on pitt.

The nc state and cuse games were pretty awful too. It seemed like 50/50 calls on those games, especially at the end constantly went against Pitt. The call on McGowens in the cuse game where they took away the three still cracks me up.

Also, in general, it seemed like the refs were far more likely to review head shots on pitt than opposing teams. See Davis for example.

I know I’m biased, but in general the refs have really vexed me this year.

 

[MajorMajors]

It’s not widely known, but refs have a “random-foul-call-generator” that they use for calling fouls. It fits into their ear like a hearing aid and signals them when to call the next apparent contact a foul.

There’s no other logical explanation.

Go Pitt.

 

[Wilver Dornell]

For the home team to not get that call on a perfect trap, with two defenders hands extended to the roof is unbelievable. Nice the team overcame that horrible call.

Trey obviously is the straw that stirs the drink. Shame on anyone who has criticized him for losing a little confidence at age 18 in the midst of an undermanned team playing ACC games.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

For the home team to not get that call on a perfect trap, with two defenders hands extended to the roof is unbelievable. Nice the team overcame that horrible call.

Trey obviously is the straw that stirs the drink. Shame on anyone who has criticized him for losing a little confidence at age 18 in the midst of an undermanned team playing ACC games.

From the TV view, at least, the call on MacGowens for a foul when he tipped that ND pass away on the inbound from the baseline to the ND player outside the arc looked bad also. Don't both players have an equal right to the ball when it is in the air (or only in football?) and shouldn't incidental hand to hand contact when both are jumping to go after after the passed ball be ignored by the refs--particularly when the defensive player gets his hand on the ball?

 

[Tiger Paul Lives]

For the home team to not get that call on a perfect trap, with two defenders hands extended to the roof is unbelievable. Nice the team overcame that horrible call.

Trey obviously is the straw that stirs the drink. Shame on anyone who has criticized him for losing a little confidence at age 18 in the midst of an undermanned team playing ACC games.

I thought the post game with JWF was funny when he said Trey is the only player born with a 0 in his birth year.

 

[H2P 2003]

From the TV view, at least, the call on MacGowens for a foul when he tipped that ND pass away on the inbound from the baseline to the ND player outside the arc looked bad also. Don't both players have an equal right to the ball when it is in the air (or only in football?) and shouldn't incidental hand to hand contact when both are jumping to go after after the passed ball be ignored by the refs--particularly when the defensive player gets his hand on the ball?

Try got there first on a loose ball. It was a TERRIBLE call.

 

[pittzap]

Try got there first on a loose ball. It was a TERRIBLE call.

That’s what I thought, too. It looked like Trey got fouled!

 

[levance2]

Officiating has not been any worse than any other year. Our margin for error is just very, very small, so it has the potential to impact more outcomes.

Even last year, a couple bad calls are rather trivial when you are losing by 20ppg.

 

[goalieman]

I thought the charging foul on Trey late in the 1st half was very questionable also.

 

[DT_PITT]

Officiating has not been any worse than any other year. Our margin for error is just very, very small, so it has the potential to impact more outcomes.

Even last year, a couple bad calls are rather trivial when you are losing by 20ppg.

Completely agree.

 

[NCLee]

Well the blocking call on Chukwuka at the end could have cost us the game. Horrendous as well as 2 missed travels on ND in final mi Ute and 20 seconds.

I’m sorry but it just seemed that after Capel publicly criticized the refs we were done getting any calls!

 

[PittMan2003]

I was there and almost had an aneurysm on that call when trey was going for the 50/50 ball with Gibbs. That was the last straw in a game full of bad calls against Pitt. We were extremely fortunate to pull that game out with those calls and our missed free throws in the end.

 

[H2P 2003]

I was there and almost had an aneurysm on that call when trey was going for the 50/50 ball with Gibbs. That was the last straw in a game full of bad calls against Pitt. We were extremely fortunate to pull that game out with those calls and our missed free throws in the end.

Those two calls absolutely could have cost pitt the game.

 

[pittzap]

Well the blocking call on Chukwuka at the end could have cost us the game. Horrendous as well as 2 missed travels on ND in final mi Ute and 20 seconds.

I’m sorry but it just seemed that after Capel publicly criticized the refs we were done getting any calls!

We were done getting calls several games before he criticized the refs.

 

[H2P 2003]

We were done getting calls several games before he criticized the refs.

I felt the first couple of games were kind of ridiculous on our favor, but after that it completely swung the other way.

 

[Thee Jackie Treehorn]

I don't know if the officiating was worse than any other season. Those were bad calls against Kene and Trey. Bad calls, but essentially within the realm of the sort of bad calls you see pretty often.

What sticks out in my mind about officiating this year were the calls in that Syracuse game. The offensive foul called on jump-shooting Trey and the call where they aborted a transition dunk. Some argued they were the right calls, but nobody could actually say they had seen them made before in a college basketball game. Those weren't run-of-the-mill bad calls. They weren't rare calls that are seldom made. They were unique calls that are never made.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

I felt the first couple of games were kind of ridiculous on our favor, but after that it completely swung the other way.

IMHO, it was the typical annual progression in how officials call games. Early on they are trying to follow the new emphasis to limit contact so as to allow more freedom of movement. After a while they revert back more in the direction they are accustomed to from past seasons and let more contact go by "swallowing their whistles" more often. We benefited early from the emphasis being followed and then didn't later when they reverted.

 

[H2P 2003]

I don't know if the officiating was worse than any other season. Those were bad calls against Kene and Trey. Bad calls, but essentially within the realm of the sort of bad calls you see pretty often.

What sticks out in my mind about officiating this year were the calls in that Syracuse game. The offensive foul called on jump-shooting Trey and the call where they aborted a transition dunk. Some argued they were the right calls, but nobody could actually say they had seen them made before in a college basketball game. Those weren't run-of-the-mill bad calls. They weren't rare calls that are seldom made. They were unique calls that are never made.

Goodness, I forgot the play they blew dead. The foul on the jump shooter is a calL I’ve never seen. Perhaps by the book it was correct, but it is never called in college.

The VT game also stuck out to me as well...blackshear had about 10 fouls in that game.

Also, don’t forget the end of the Iowa game where an Iowa player clearly took a swing at a pitt player but even after review it wasn’t called a flagrant.

 

[MrPups]

Everything changed after the Florida State game. Trey forced the issue consistently, drew contact and essentially won the game by going 18-19 from the free throw line. Leonard Hamilton was fairly gracious after the loss but I'm sure every other ACC coach that had to face Pitt this year pointed to the FSU game and lobbied the refs to make sure that never happened again. The officiating against Trey was really tough the remainder of the season and reached its illogical conclusion with Trey getting called for an offensive foul on a made 3 against Cuse. As Jackie said above, this was a totally outlandish call, the type of call that would only be made when opposing coaches like Boeheim are riding the refs and lobbying them crackdown on a player like Trey.

Just glad this team gutted out a win against ND and that their big victory against FSU was not bought at the price of finishing the season on a Stallings-esque losing streak.

 

[Thee Jackie Treehorn]

Goodness, I forgot the play they blew dead. The foul on the jump shooter is a calL I’ve never seen. Perhaps by the book it was correct, but it is never called in college.

The VT game also stuck out to me as well...blackshear had about 10 fouls in that game.

Also, don’t forget the end of the Iowa game where an Iowa player clearly took a swing at a pitt player but even after review it wasn’t called a flagrant.

Also, an honorable mention should go to the play in the WVU game where Kene got a technical foul for - as far as anyone could tell - having an opponent stand over him. Three months later, I still don't understand that call.

 

[H2P 2003]

Also, an honorable mention should go to the play in the WVU game where Kene got a technical foul for - as far as anyone could tell - having an opponent stand over him. Three months later, I still don't understand that call.

That WVU game was pretty bad..konate got away with murder in that game.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

After the FSU game, refs stopped calling fouls on Johnson and McGowens drives. I mean I DO think refs overall fouls on the defense in those situations but usually when a player drives to the lane and there's contact, it's a foul on the defense. That wasnt the case after FSU. It was basically like the refs knew that was our entire offense and they wouldn't allow Pitt to win at the foul line.