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Originally Posted by btaylor64
Yeah the reason you don't see so many of those "phantom calls" in the college game is because if you don't get KILLED then you don't have a foul. College refs, imo, miss more plays on the side of no calls that should have been blown, whereas NBA refs miss more plays by blowing their whistle on plays that should have been no calls, but then again NBA guys have more accountability and know that if they don't blow the whistle they will be fired, whereas college refs don't get every play charted and i.e., if a team who is up 20+ in a game drives to the hole and gets hit, with no doubt in anyones mind, the ref can pass on it and most will say that it was a good pass because that team is up 20. In the league, you don't have that luxury. If it was an illegal hit then you owe it to the crew and the game to have a foul regardless of score and time.
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That is not entirely true. I agree that the NBA officials are scrutinized more than anyone, but to say someone the Big 10 does not have to get a play right in a 20+ margin game is a little disingenuous. The NBA can find out if they have a call wrong during halftime. Do not think for a second with millions of dollars on the line the officials in the Big 10 and even the smaller conferences are not scrutinizing their officials heavily. Most of the time we never hear about it official screw-ups or know if any action was taken by a conference. All a coach has to do is complain about a single call and the play is reviewed. I would say that a game at the D1 level just does not have the immediate feedback as the NBA, but they will hear about situations if they screw them up.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
Check the stats, NBA refs get more plays right than, say, refs in the Big 10. Oh wait you can't check that, the Big 10, along with the rest of Div. 1 conferences don't chart plays. Regardless, I think if they had, NBA refs would have more plays called correct even with Hank Nichols judging what is and what is not a foul.
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I do not know that I would go that far either. Let us remember that many of the NBA officials are not that experienced over all. Many NBA officials have been officiating less than 10 years of experience before they do their first game in the league. I agree many are very good, but many are not as good as many of the top D1 guys. So depending on whom you talk to, that opinion might not be widely held. Also understand the philosophies between D1 and the NBA is also very different. We really cannot judge officials from different levels on the very same merits.
Peace