Pac-12 officiating: Inconsistency continues to mar league

We were listening to Jerry because FSN hates Montana, so I’ve heard the commentary, but haven’t seen the actual play.

In both previous instances, they didn’t cause the other team to LOSE the game. The foul calls and resulting free throws caused the game go to overtime.

In this particular instance it caused Oregon to LOSE the game by free throw.

I agree with everything in both of your hands by the way. Now hopefully we can wash them and start fresh Thursday.

For me, I’m just having a hard time understand how one conference can have such laughable officiating in every single sport. And not just bad, but inconsistent. You see tons of games with no calls the first half and everything the second half. I can’t speak too much to the ducks game since the only play I saw was that very last one. The conference’s referees hav become national punchline, which is unacceptable for a league that is trying to become the premier league in the nation. And sorry for any typos, typing this on my phone.

You don’t call what you don’t see.

That ref should have his license yanked, assuming there is such a thing as a licensure program in this conference.

Generally, though, clown shows are not organized under the auspices of a certifying authority, and there’s no Mike Pereira available to shame anyone, so my prediction is that once again incompetence will be, at best, unpunished.

I caught the radio version of the game, so I was unable to watch the play until today. After reading all of the commentary and hearing Jerry’s play by play, I had an expectation of how the play went down and what kind of foul it was. Suffice it to say, I wasn’t expecting to see what actually happened. I still disagree with the call as a whole, but not like I expected to.

First thought is, that was a foul. Not on the hand at the shot, cause that was all ball (in pausing and starting, I actually got lucky and had a freeze frame of the moment Singler’s hand made contact and it really is ALL ball). But the contact with the body before the shot is clearly a block by Singler. He hadn’t established position when the CU player comes through the lane. With the foul situation, I believe it would have set up for at least one free throw, maybe two. Unfortunately, it’s clear the referee called the contact on the shot, not on the drive.

A quick sidebar on that: I disagree wholeheartedly with KevinRileyFTW above that

the official did not blow his whistle until the Colorado player complained.

Two things on that: First, no official, unless he is anticipating contact (which he should not do), blows his whistle and raises his hand at the time of contact. There is always a slight delay while they “process” the information and then react to it. The pause is not so egregious that I would doubt he did call what he saw, whether right or wrong. Secondly, at no time does he look at the ballhandler after the “foul”. Watching his eyes, he follows the ball as he goes up to shoot, sees the contact, looks at his partner (who is located at the freethrow line on the opposite side of the court) as he’s blowing his whistle, looks at Singler, then looks back at his partners as he’s pointing to the basket. But enough on that.

Finally, regarding again the play as a whole. Despite the fact that it was a blocking foul (and I have no doubt about that), I still would question him calling it (and would be fine either way with his no call on that). However, to call a foul on the shot when it’s not clear if it was all ball or not is a mistake. As our referees pool consistently harps upon, “don’t put yourself in a position where you decide the game.” He should have let the players play and decide it on the floor, not at the line.

There ya go, my two cents, which is slowly becoming even more worthless than it already was thanks to the American Dollar’s demise.

For the record, Olu didnt get touched on his and-1 where he missed his free throw right before that. they guessed on that call too.

from CGB, but I don’t see the point in getting worked up over one call. I don’t see a lot of ranting and raving about missed free throws, or turnovers, or offensive rebounds and those things contribute much greater to a loss than any one call. And for those that say, but it wasn’t just the one call, it was all game, there were 43 fouls called (probably just as many other calls like out of bounds, travelling, etc) and I doubt the refs were as bad as the Ducks were from the FT line (58%) or missed 14 total calls (number of Duck turnovers).

Now, I’m not defending Pac 12 refs, we all know they’re bad, but this team can’t use the excuse that the ref cost them this game. Oregon does more damage to itself than any one ref could ever do. Basketball is a fast paced game, and refs struggle to get calls right at every level (look at how many people complain about the NBA refs, and they’re supposed to be the best). I just think it’s too easy when watching basketball today to point to one play, and say, “if the refs hadn’t done this or that, we would have won that game” and rarely is that actually true. I’d much rather this team just say, “if we hadn’t done this or that, we would have never been in a position to lose that game.”

Unfortunately, that’s not the way it works in basketball. So instead…SCREW THESE REFS, THEY’RE TERRIBLE, THEY LOST US THIS GAME. RAAEEEEGGGGGGGG

But to end it on a freethrow, is, in my opinion, super lame