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Officiating in this game

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CappyNU said:
Kenpom helpfully tracks referees, so I was able to see that one of tonight's referees, Earl Walton, is in his 2nd year doing Big 10 games with regularity. Last year, we went 12-8 in conference, but just 2-4 in games where he was one of the refs, including our home OT win over Purdue where Edey got to shoot a then-career high 20 FTs. He was also one of the refs in the Chicago State game that we lost, along with our NCAA tourney game against UCLA the year before.

One of the other refs, Will Howard, reffed his first-ever Big 10 game tonight.

The third ref was Paul Szelc, who is a longtime Big 10 ref, and nothing really jumped out at me from his previous NU games.

Obviously I have no way to know which ref called which fouls, but if I'm Collins I'd focus on making sure Walton doesn't ref our games the rest of the year.
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Were those Walton losses all during away games? I mean we were 2 and 8 on the road, correct? Not sure the 2-4 means as much if they were all road games.
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Collins Post Game Press Conference

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Cat-Court-Jester said:
Collins won't. He almost did that once after the Gonzaga screw job, but stopped short. He'll just continue playing the "nice guy" act with Big Ten officials...
  • And they'll continue to screw NU season, after season, after season
  • Fran McCaffrey once found the Big Ten refs in the tunnel after the game and screamed "You cheating motherf***er!" You're a f***ing disgrace!"... well, now Iowa gets treated fairly
  • PSU coach Mike Rhoades has zero history in the Big Ten, he's two years in, and noww his team gets a whistle against NU like nothing I've ever seen
  • NU suffered one of the craziest screw jobs I've ever seen in the closing seconds. What does Collins do? He remains docile and shakes hands. Well, I hope the nice guy routine makes him lots of friends. It doesn't get him calls
  • Frankly, NU fans have to question: "If Collins doesn't care enough to get fired up and show some real emotion, why should we?"
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I was surprised Collins was so calm after the inadvertant whistle screw job, but let's not pretend he never screams at the refs. Remember @Purdue last year?
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Officiating in this game

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Davidgolds5 said:
made mistake of rewatching the play-

Let’s forget the ridiculous no call on the REAL goaltend earlier.

Bit on the final play-

They messed up the play by calling a goaltend when they didn’t see one.

On the review-
BB had already released the ball when the whistle blew.
They also missed #14 hitting the rim with his arm which should have been a goaltend.
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I had thought that if they did wave off the goal tend it would still be a score. But if the whistle blew before it left BBs hand. And did it matter than BB was in continuation and was in the air the whole time. Important to know when the whistle actually blew and if there can be any continuation as there is for a foul
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Officiating in this game

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Kenpom helpfully tracks referees, so I was able to see that one of tonight's referees, Earl Walton, is in his 2nd year doing Big 10 games with regularity. Last year, we went 12-8 in conference, but just 2-4 in games where he was one of the refs, including our home OT win over Purdue where Edey got to shoot a then-career high 20 FTs. He was also one of the refs in the Chicago State game that we lost, along with our NCAA tourney game against UCLA the year before.

One of the other refs, Will Howard, reffed his first-ever Big 10 game tonight.

The third ref was Paul Szelc, who is a longtime Big 10 ref, and nothing really jumped out at me from his previous NU games.

Obviously I have no way to know which ref called which fouls, but if I'm Collins I'd focus on making sure Walton doesn't ref our games the rest of the year.
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Travel question

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NU Houston said:
I don't know for sure but would be very surprised if they don't plan to stay on the west coast in between those two games. It's not coincidence that the road games were scheduled back to back. The Washington game looks to be at 9:30pm central on Saturday, February 8 (not March). If they flew back after that one, even on charter, they wouldn't get home until late morning on Sunday. Then they'd need to fly back to Oregon the next day. No reason to do that.

On the other hand, I'm guessing that NU will fly home late tonight after the game at Penn State and will then fly (or bus) to Purdue on Saturday in preparation for Sunday's game there.
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Eanet told Collins that he's "see him on the charter" during the post-game interview on WGN
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Bowl games

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Let’s say you had a crazy rich uncle, and he decided that he wanted to try self-preservation through cryotherapy, and he willfully froze himself 50 years ago!

Let’s further say that he was a big college football fan.

Let’s say funding ran out today, and you had to thaw him and see if he survived, and it worked!

“Uncle Warbucks, you’re alive!”
“What’s the date?! How was the Rose Bowl?”
“January 2! Rose Bowl was a blowout. OSU over Oregon.”
“Oregon?!?!? Oregon?!! Not USC or UCLA or Washington or Cal for chrissakes. OREGON?!”

“But there’s more uncle. We’ve got a COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF, and FOUR TEAMS ARE LEFT.”

“A playoff! Blasphemy! Who’s are the FINAL FOUR?!”

“Ohio State, Texas, Notre Dame, Penn State.

“Some things never change, I guess.”
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The Rant Board

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Hungry Jack said:
is temporarily restored:

That game had two sets of rules: One for PSU, and one for NU. If there was ever a need for disciplinary action against a crew, tonight's game is Exhibit A. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, the Easter Bunny or even Bigfoot, but I believe we got completely jobbed by a crew that has no business officiating another B1G game.

WTF was that travesty of competitive sports mediation?

I have never seen so many fouls called away from the action. I have never such a disparity in what is permitted by one time and called on the other.

And the final call was a fitting and seminal clusterf@ck to seal our fate: Call a goaltend, then review it and wave it off, while also negating the putback. But at least we got possession! Thanks guys!

POSSESSTHISYOUSHITHEADMUTHERFUKKERS!

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That was the worst officiating I’ve seen in any sporting event ever. There’s nothing even close.
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Hungry Jack
is temporarily restored:

That game had two sets of rules: One for PSU, and one for NU. If there was ever a need for disciplinary action against a crew, tonight's game is Exhibit A. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, the Easter Bunny or even Bigfoot, but I believe we got completely jobbed by a crew that has no business officiating another B1G game.

WTF was that travesty of competitive sports mediation?

I have never seen so many fouls called away from the action. I have never such a disparity in what is permitted by one time and called on the other.

And the final call was a fitting and seminal clusterf@ck to seal our fate: Call a goaltend, then review it and wave it off, while also negating the putback. But at least we got possession! Thanks guys!

POSSESSTHISYOUSHITHEADMUTHERFUKKERS!

/rant
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Bowl games

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While Finebaum did sort of a mea culpa, it was absolutely disgusting (even taking account that he works for the SEC network) how lopsided his "analysis" has been the past couple of weeks.

Blah, blah, blah - who did Indiana play/where are their good/great wins, but nothing stated about Texas which was in the same boat.

Repeating ad nauseum about dOSU spending $20 mil on NIL, but again, silence on Texas (and other schools which spent more); nevermind all those years when the SEC was paying players under the table.

Ironically, UT is the last hope for the SEC and many SEC fans earlier in the season were saying that Texas was not yet a real SEC program.
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Collins Post Game Press Conference

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cedricmelons said:
Anybody know when and where we can watch it? Hopefully he is lighting up the officials.
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Collins won't. He almost did that once after the Gonzaga screw job, but stopped short. He'll just continue playing the "nice guy" act with Big Ten officials...
  • And they'll continue to screw NU season, after season, after season
  • Fran McCaffrey once found the Big Ten refs in the tunnel after the game and screamed "You cheating motherf***er!" You're a f***ing disgrace!"... well, now Iowa gets treated fairly
  • PSU coach Mike Rhoades has zero history in the Big Ten, he's two years in, and noww his team gets a whistle against NU like nothing I've ever seen
  • NU suffered one of the craziest screw jobs I've ever seen in the closing seconds. What does Collins do? He remains docile and shakes hands. Well, I hope the nice guy routine makes him lots of friends. It doesn't get him calls
  • Frankly, NU fans have to question: "If Collins doesn't care enough to get fired up and show some real emotion, why should we?"
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