IHSAA Ends Season For Two Girls Teams

[bballref3966]

I'm just waiting for one of the fanboys to come along with the "those poor kids who didn't do anything wrong" argument.

[j51969]

What a mess.

Can't say its surprising. I grew up on the East Side, so I have no love loss for the westsiders. Only thing that would have made this better is if it was Carmel HS. We hated them more.......

[twocentsworth]

Why am I NOT surprised that the article refers to the game being "very physical"?...99% of problems occur in a basketball game from the officials NOT blowing the whistle enough.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

Why am I NOT surprised that the article refers to the game being "very physical"?...99% of problems occur in a basketball game from the officials NOT blowing the whistle enough.

Here we go again.

Why am I NOT surprised you showed up?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

Why am I NOT surprised that the article refers to the game being "very physical"?...99% of problems occur in a basketball game from the officials NOT blowing the whistle enough.

Hyperbole much? Good grief.

[Altor]

Why did you ignore the rest of the quote?

"It was a physical game, a lot of fouls were called," Cox said. "I think our contest officials did everything in their power to keep that game under control. The coaches did as well."

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Altor

Why did you ignore the rest of the quote?

"It was a physical game, a lot of fouls were called," Cox said. "I think our contest officials did everything in their power to keep that game under control. The coaches did as well."

Yet the first player seen in the video kicking someone who is on the ground is wearing #6.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Yet the first player seen in the video kicking someone who is on the ground is wearing #6.

And?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Yet the first player seen in the video kicking someone who is on the ground is wearing #6.

Why is Bill Russell playing in a girls high school game?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

You're right. My mistake. It's pretty clear that there is a LOT of responsibility to be parceled out to various parties in this incident - players, coaches, parents, administrators - but the one group we should NOT question or suspect was part of the problem are the game officials.

It is obvious that they did a fine job in applying the rules of the game in a fair manner to achieve a successful conclusion. #jobwelldone

Hell, I hadn't even read the article. Your statement that "99% of problems occur in a basketball game from the officials NOT blowing the whistle enough" is pure hyperbole, even if it was true in this game.

Of course, BNR asks a good question:

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Who said the officials weren't blowing their whistles?

And Altor provides a great answer:

Originally Posted by Altor

Why did you ignore the rest of the quote?

"It was a physical game, a lot of fouls were called," Cox said. "I think our contest officials did everything in their power to keep that game under control. The coaches did as well."

I don't see anything there that can reasonably give you, or anyone, the impression that the officials were not calling enough fouls.

Of course, if you walk in with a preconceive bias against the game officials, you could certainly get that impression if you ignore 75% of the quote you cling to.

If your first instinct is to blame the officials in spite of the evidence, you're going to get some negative responses from a group of officials.

[twocentsworth]

Originally Posted by Adam

Hyperbole much? Good grief.

You're right. My mistake. It's pretty clear that there is a LOT of responsibility to be parceled out to various parties in this incident - players, coaches, parents, administrators - but the one group we should NOT question or suspect was part of the problem are the game officials.

It is obvious that they did a fine job in applying the rules of the game in a fair manner to achieve a successful conclusion. #jobwelldone

[scrounge]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

You're right. My mistake. It's pretty clear that there is a LOT of responsibility to be parceled out to various parties in this incident - players, coaches, parents, administrators - but the one group we should NOT question or suspect was part of the problem are the game officials.

It is obvious that they did a fine job in applying the rules of the game in a fair manner to achieve a successful conclusion. #jobwelldone

So...are you just being a snarky jackass or do you actually believe this crap?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by scrounge

So...are you just being a snarky jackass or do you actually believe this crap?

You obviously have not paid attention to some of his past posts.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

Why am I NOT surprised that the article refers to the game being "very physical"?...99% of problems occur in a basketball game from the officials NOT blowing the whistle enough.

Who said the officials weren't blowing their whistles?

[RefsNCoaches]

Can't confirm this but I read (from some online comments from someone who was there) that 2 Ts and 51 PFs were whistled....so it would appear they were calling something.