They didn’t call post hacks the whole game. They did call grabs on movement toward the basket.Nick continued to get hacked in the lane all during that last ten minutes. The refs just swallowed their whistles for the blue side.
They didn’t call post hacks the whole game. They did call grabs on movement toward the basket.Nick continued to get hacked in the lane all during that last ten minutes. The refs just swallowed their whistles for the blue side.
Again, this is an outdated view of basketball. You’re welcome to it, but it willfully neglects inflection points that impacted the game
It’s actually a pattern of bad calls, again and again, in our direction throughout the game and impacting multiple games. It’s not just 1 bad call. We have to play so much better than the other team, often with a key player literally getting kicked out of the game for an insane technical foul. Or, taking game tying points off the board. Or keeping the whistle in your pocket when the Big Ten’s scoring leader is hacked to the floor.All I'm saying is you can't control officiating. You can control the other stuff. We all know that was a bad no-call at the end. We played 29 pretty good minutes last night and we got our butts kicked in the other 11. That left us in a spot where we needed every single thing to go right in the last 3 minutes, which includes officials not making a bad call. I don't think that's outdated, that's just reality.
The no call on the push off by Pardon under the basket for our win against Michigan which got us our first tourney bid?The refs are awful across the big ten. But it seems we are never the recipient of bad calls on the other team. Can you recall a game in which we got a ton of lucky breaks at the end of the game? Martinelli game winner vs Maryland, he had a questionable lifting of his pivot foot, and there was no call. That’s the closest I can think.
I’ve always thought they should work in crews like in football. Would iron out inconsistencies due to new groups of three each game. But I’m sure they like making their own schedules, even with the addition of Friday and Monday games and the nationwide travel making this all even more demanding.BIG refs are always in a hurry to call a jump ball. Any touching of the ball results in an immediate jump ball. They usually instinctively call fouls when a team that is losing is trapping at the end of the game as they did originally against Berry when it looked like he may have turned the guy over in the corner. Which is odd because when he was actually purposely grabbing the guy after the Martinelli no call the ref didn’t call a foul.
Btw I’ve heard these refs make 2-3k/game each. Five games a week, that can add up to 60k/month. Not suggesting it is an easy job. Definitely seems like a grind. But there should be a standard there. If anyone knows more about their income, I’d love to hear it.
I dunno if this is a reputable source, but this is what I found:Any idea what the salary of a big ten basketball referee is?
Way to make something completely up to make a point on a message board. I’ll play:The no call on the push off by Pardon under the basket for our win against Michigan which got us our first tourney bid?
Respect.Heh, Edey should have fouled out in the first half of every game we played against him the last two years just based on his hook-hold-and-pull offensive staples.
Yes, I think you got it!Way to make something completely up to make a point on a message board. I’ll play:
“That should have been a 5 second call before Martinelli hit the buzzer beater.”
“Edey actually got fouled at the end of the Purdue game and should have been shooting an and 1”
“Brooks traveled against FAU on the last possession by shuffling his feet on the head fake before the drive.”
This is actually kind of fun
Yeah. I don’t see how there is no call on that play. Even if they called blocking (which it was not) would’ve been better than seeing that and doing nothing.Ref botch of the night last night. Wisconsin Tonje literally plowed through a Minnesota defender, with no offensive foul, he then proceeded to take 6-8 steps and make a layup. Game was close at that time and he would have fouled out. Hard to believe the Minn defender wasn’t injured. Minnesota lost. They seem to have a horrendous call every night.
Reality is that bad calls are made against every program, Seems like more against us but we are invested in this program so maybe we notice it more. That said, we really don't know what goes on behind the scenes, I would guess that there are some significant conversations, You can lodge a complaint but it is like suing the government, Can't really do it unless they allow it. And frankly we just don't have that much weight to throw around so they know that they can just wait it out and we will go away because there are just not that many of us.Penn State was like something I’ve never seen. But the sad thing is… this level of horrendous officiating repeatedly against NU, is something that is now becoming common, year-in, year-out.
I think it comes down to incentives: there simply are no consequences for B10 refs routinely screwing NU. Media ignores it, there’s not a huge social media firestorm. And Collins and our Athletics Department… they do nothing to call out Big Ten officials. Avoid the fines, play nice, hope the situation magically goes away. No consequences. Happens again and again. For the fans, it’s beyond frustrating, and so many simply move on and stop investing time into a program that won’t stick up for itself. For casual fans there’s not much incentive to watch, when you know the refs are going to screw your team — every marginal call going against you. And even the obvious calls, where your average middle school-level ref would get it right.
And yet no consequences. Think the AD will come out with a statement that NU is lodging a complaint with the B10? Nope, they never do.
Those FTs got him to 20 and as tight as the scoring race is might make a difference, And for CCC to get tossed would have them shooting 4 more FTsI wanted Collins to get tossed while Nick was shooting meaningless free throws to end the game. It was extremely disappointing to watch the refs take the game out of the hands of the players.