Mitchell blames Burdick for Technicals

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#26
He's a whiny little sissy. He looks like he's even trying to imitate Calipari.
 
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Yeah, Mitchell's entire premise is flawed: "A Tennessee player was talking smack and caused our players to lose their composure and I warned the referee NOT to let her talk smack because I KNEW our players would lose their composure - it's clearly the ref's fault and that Tennessee player's fault."
 
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Heres the issue. Mitchell has once again laid an egg on the big stage and he is personally frustrated because between the resurgence of the Lady Vols and the rise of Dawn Staley his window is closing quickly.

I think even the biggest kool-aide drinking Lady Vol fan would admit there was an opening for the next best program in the SEC to squeeze through during the Pat-Holly transition. He saw this as well, and some of the weaknesses in the Lady Vol players (think Strickland-Glory Johnson era) and thought he could take over the throne of the SEC. Well it hasn't happened. He has 1 regular season title and zero tournament titles in the last 4 years. After Stallworth and Walker graduate there will be a noticeable void in the UK post starting next year. A fair minded group of pollsters should probably put them 4th or 5th behind at least UT, SC, and Texas A&M next year.

Worse for him is that it looks like if UK is the highest ranked third seed they are gonna get sent to Louisville where UConn and Louisville will also be seeded.

Make no mistake, if this season ends in Lexington with no conference titles and no Final Four it will be a disappointment.
 
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clkou said:
Yeah, Mitchell's entire premise is flawed: "A Tennessee player was talking smack and caused our players to lose their composure and I warned the referee NOT to let her talk smack because I KNEW our players would lose their composure - it's clearly the ref's fault and that Tennessee player's fault."
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talking smack has always been a part of the game. Heck I played in the later 60's early 70's and people ran their mouths all the time. I sure did if I thought somebody would lose their cool.
 
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I guess he missed the part where his player(Walker)made absolutely no play on the ball and just shoved our player(Harrison)in the back and onto the ground. That's UK for you. That's a Matthew Mitchell coached team for you. He teaches his players to play dirty. This has been obvious for years. They get away with it and win and he doesn't make a peep. They lose and somehow it ends up being the other teams fault. "But..but..but...their player got in our players face after our player made a dirty play. What did we do wrong?" Shut up, Mitchell.
 
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Mitchell's typical sour grapes. Just trying to deflect attention away from the fact that his team lost another game on the big stage.
 
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Slydell said:
Pretty sad statement by him. I didn't see any comments he had regarding all the over the backs by Kentucky on rebounding and getting away with fouls when the LV's were going to the rim. He probably missed those. :)
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Mitchell is someone who "talks the talk" but does not "walk the walk"! What he does, you cannot do without repercussions.
 
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His antics on the sidelines is worth the price of admission. The dude must have gone to acting school. All his gestures and facial expressions are exaggerated for the benefit of the officials. He talks to the official near his bench the whole 40 minutes explaining to them why his players aren't doing anything wrong and how the other team is fouling his. If I were an official I would let him know in the first five minutes that he wasn't helping his team with all the gestures and talking. I get talking to the officials, but not the whole 40 minutes. I will give him credit, his teams play hard.
 
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Orange Maniac said:
His antics on the sidelines is worth the price of admission. The dude must have gone to acting school. All his gestures and facial expressions are exaggerated for the benefit of the officials. He talks to the official near his bench the whole 40 minutes explaining to them why his players aren't doing anything wrong and how the other team is fouling his. If I were an official I would let him know in the first five minutes that he wasn't helping his team with all the gestures and talking. I get talking to the officials, but not the whole 40 minutes. I will give him credit, his teams play hard.
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He learned from the best, Coach Summit worked the refs well and they feared her. We could not have the worse group of refs yesterday. They got to the point that they were making up make up calls. Worst group and should be banned for a year.
 
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Pat did work the refs but not every single minute of the game. I didn't have as much of a problem with the calls made yesterday, except for the last one. I was more upset by the calls that weren't made. Our post players got mauled and nothing was called. We had a couple calls go our way but the non calls made this game close.
 
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I felt overall that Kentucky got the benefit of the doubt far too often and just got away with a lot. Remember all the dumbfounded looks our players gave the refs? I had those same looks on my faces. There were just so many bad calls made against us: fouls not called on UK that should have been, fouls called on us that should NOT have been, loose balls on Kentucky players but the refs said it went off us.

Remember when Reynolds got tripped out of bounds and the ball looked like it went off a Kentucky player and they didn't call the foul and gave Kentucky the ball? It was just stuff like that all the time. Intentional foul by UK's Walker but we don't get the call OR the ball back. Remember that game Simmons got a technical foul just by her reaction to a foul call?

End of the game, Burdick doesn't do anything resembling a foul but the referee has his/her mind made up before the play happens. That's 3 points right there. The no intentional foul call is another 2 points. It adds up. We should have won by 10 to 15 points.

I want a modicum of consistency. Coaches shouldn't have to WORK the refs. The refs should call the same game regardless. There should be enough ticket sales and advertising dollars to afford and train some decent officiating.
 
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Mitchell's coach's "show" is downright silly, from cooking to picking guitars. He tries to come across like a warm, regular guy, then he whines & teaches cheap-shot thuggery on the court. Total loser IMO.
 
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The real reason he acted like a dweeb after the game is that the Refs were not letting his team get away with the rough play inside in the second half. So he cries after the game that Burdick was mean to his players talked to them mean it upset them :) She is a mean one that Burdick lol.:)
 
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AllforTenn said:
Burdick clearly did not foul McNeill on the last play. If there was any contact at all it was McNeill's knee into Burdick after the shot was released. And Burdick was mugged repeatedly under the basket on offense. Poor officiating for an important game.
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Sudden Impact said:
He learned from the best, Coach Summit worked the refs well and they feared her. We could not have a worse group of refs yesterday. They got to the point that they were making up make up calls. Worst group and should be banned for a year.
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I agree. It would have been funny if it hadn't been such an important game. Even my wife knew the officiating was bad....... both ways. Its tough having to play with inconsistent officiating like that.
 
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OrangeDog said:
I agree. It would have been funny if it hadn't been such an important game. Even my wife knew the officiating was bad....... both ways. Its tough having to play with inconsistent officiating like that.
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That is what bothers me the most is that they stuck this crew out there in a Championship Game with a lot on the line. It wasn't like the Refs stood around and drew straws to see who would get the Championship Game.

Afterall, this crew knew KY's style of play and the players from both teams how physical it was going to be and they lost control in the first half of the game. Why they didn't pull both coaches together and state we are calling this game tight versus we will see how the first half goes and adjust. They were more inconsistent with calls in the second half....
 
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If the officiating is legit, the refs don't have to make halftime adjustments. And, the coaches don't have to either based on how the officiating went in the first half.
 
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Wonder if Mitchell caught his players saying "you can't stop me" MULTIPLE times after they made a basket. To me...that's being "mouthy" as he called it. But I'm sure he missed that part and only saw Burdick. The commentators even mentioned about his players saying it at one point. Comes with the game! Lol. It's basketball, baby! He needs a reality check!
 
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Mitchell still screaming like a little stuck piggy. Here piggy piggy. Here piggy. Piggy pig pig.
 
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well Burdick is our enforcer :)

Holly was saying that the double Technical foul was the right call

the sad part is the lack of good officiating in the SEC Championship Game and as we have all seen,it has been going on all year and i don't mean just bad calls against the Lady Vols,surely the SEC can do better than this,I know they can't get all the calls right and i don't expect them to,but damn,lets have some consistency from one crew to the next and from half to half
 
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The SEC has made it abundantly clear that they are just fine with having the worst officials in the country in all of their sports. And the women's basketball officials are the worst of any sport in the SEC.

It is damn near criminal in my opinion.
 
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I'm still not clear why Burdick was called for a technical. She wasn't near the play Walker went all WWE on Izzy.
 
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