UGA AD not happy with officiating

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#2
Basketball refs are usually awful especially at Kentucky or at Vanderbilt, welcome to the club.
 
#3
#3
The shot clock problem is UGA's own fault. I saw at least twice where I thought there was a violation but there was no horn to alert the officials.

I'll give back the the shot clock violation if they'll give back the phantom technical foul at the end of the 1st half.
 
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If he wasnt happy about the refs then he should come and read volnation.I might be wrong but I think the fouls were something like 18 fouls on Tn and 13 on Ga.
 
#7
#7
There were several bad calls or "no calls" against both teams. Just glad it went in our favor at the end.
 
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Just saw UGA AD not happy with...thought Richt hot seat was rolling again, watching basketball but really can't get in the thinking about it mode the last 2 weeks of Jan leading up to NSD..
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I won't pretend that the no call at the end on Brian Williams wasn't horrible, but I can't ever remember an AD going public about the calls in a basketball game.
 
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Well now maybe he can sympathize with us about the lsu football game and the north carolina football game. I agree, the officiating was terrible, but it was terrible for both teams consistently throughout the game. He's just trying to make a name for himself in see the new athletic director.
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GAVol said:
I won't pretend that the no call at the end on Brian Williams wasn't horrible, but I can't ever remember an AD going public about the calls in a basketball game.
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I still don't think he made contact until after grabbing the ball.
 
#13
#13
Are ad's subject to king slive's punishments? If a coach says this its at minimum a fine.
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GAVol said:
I won't pretend that the no call at the end on Brian Williams wasn't horrible, but I can't ever remember an AD going public about the calls in a basketball game.
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I agree with you about the phantom technical foul. That call was absolutely ridiculous. That 1 and another call they called outta bounds turnover of cameron tatum when he never even touched ball.
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jwells said:
I still don't think he made contact until after grabbing the ball.
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Please. It was absolutely an over the back. We just benefited from the refs doing what they do most of the time, and that's swallowing their whistles in last second situations.
 
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LawVol13 said:
Please. It was absolutely an over the back. We just benefited from the refs doing what they do most of the time, and that's swallowing their whistles in last second situations.
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Yeah, it's hard to argue that it wasn't a foul. I think the fact that it was an airball also contributed to it being a no call since nobody was really set for the rebound and things happened so fast.
 
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GAVol said:
Yeah, it's hard to argue that it wasn't a foul. I think the fact that it was an airball also contributed to it being a no call since nobody was really set for the rebound and things happened so fast.
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Agreed. And, as you noted, there were other blown calls that went in favor of UGA that evened it out.
 
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tigervol9802 said:
Are ad's subject to king slive's punishments? If a coach says this its at minimum a fine.
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I was gonna ask that. Coaches aren't allowed to publicly criticize officiating, are other university representatives (the AD) allowed to?
 
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LawVol13 said:
Agreed. And, as you noted, there were other blown calls that went in favor of UGA that evened it out.
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The funny thing about it is that BW is now a hero, but he was a whistle away from a really bad foul that would have likely lost us the game.
 
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As Tech sings in the Ramblin Wreck song: "To Hell With Georgia". I live 30 minutes from Athens and have to listen to their crap and whining constantly. I wore my bright orange shirt, hat and jacket today just to rub their noses in their little pile of dog manure.
 
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That's basketball there's stuff that goes unseen and don't get called , and then there are things that do get called that make no sense throughout the enitre game. Just because it was the end of the game does not mean it should be magnified.
 
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GAVol said:
Yeah, it's hard to argue that it wasn't a foul. I think the fact that it was an airball also contributed to it being a no call since nobody was really set for the rebound and things happened so fast.
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I don't think it's hard to argue; in fact, I think it's hard to argue that it WAS a foul. Here is why:

I watched the video over and over, trying to determine exactly what happened. Here's what I saw -
  • BW did not push or shove the GA player
  • BW did not 'ride the back' or otherwise impede the GA player's ability to jump
  • In fact, there was actually very little contact involved. BW was basically just standing behind the guy. If anything, the contact came when the GA player began backing into BW to box him out.

However, we are lucky that over the back wasn't called, because at full speed it really looked like it. Here's what made it look that way (IMO):
  • Harris shot an airball, and the GA player wasn't expecting it
  • Because of that, the GA player was just beginning to block BW out.
  • When the ball didn't draw iron, it was in the GA player's face before he was ready to secure it
  • BW, having a better look at the shot, saw that it was short and just reached over the GA player's head to snatch it. That's not over the back; that's just being tall. There's no rule against that.

Ultimately, the correct call would have been BW at the line for an 'and 1' because the GA player grabbed his arms as he was falling to the floor. But I think the refs did the right thing in swallowing the whistle.

Holy crap, can you imagine if BW had missed the put-back but the foul for grabbing his arms was called? Brian Williams, at the line, shooting two, with no time on the clock?? Cardiac wards would have been full in Knoxville.
 
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