uxley, still waiting for a response to my post as well as a couple others. Why did you pick the post concerning the fans as the only one you answered?

It's been known to happen. Not too long ago Iowa Hawkeye fans tore down the goal posts at Minnesota. :D
His point was, as a #1 team, the fans shouldn't get that excited about a home win.

He wasn't scrutinizing the officiating at THAT end of the court, silly.

I didn't see the game and have no opinion, but I think SJ's numbers are a bit off. I have heard several times that 80% (correct calls) would be great at the D1 level. 1 or 2 calls a game would probably happen with a NBA crew.

Although my team lost, I thought the officials did a fine job. It was Big Ten basketball. Both teams got to bang a bit. Hopefully Butch will be back soon and the Bucky's can get by them in the Big Ten tourney.

He will be out 4-6 weeks. I know we wish nobody gets hurt, but I bet the Badgers wished this happened 4-6 weeks ago.

I thought the officials did a good job too, the game was just sloopy.

But personally, without a Tivo or DVR, I can rarely see the travels when they happen... anyone else have this problem?

Just so I don't misunderstand, are you saying that you would consider a D1 official to be doing a "great" job if he/she got only 80% of his/her calls correct?

I would think that's appallingly low for a "great" performance.

You are probably underestimating what a good/great performance is at that level. Or perhaps you are of the opinion that if Official X calls a call, it must be right because of where he's been and what he's done.

That's possible, I suppose. But do you really think that if you blew 2 out of every 10 block/charge calls, you'd be considered a "great" official?

No, honestly, I don't think that. I understand that all kinds of things contribute to getting an official hired at that level. But at some point, you have to be able to call plays. And to say that 80% correct is "great" means that some lower percentage like 60% would be considered good or acceptable. And I just can't see how that's possible.

Here's another thing to consider. Not all of our calls gets whistles. We probably have 6-8 calls per possession when it comes to legal dribbles, or incidental contact after a pass, or legal/illegal screens. If you consider all those calls in a game, I think the percentage has to be a lot higher than 80% to be great.

If you're only talking about whistles, then it might be a little lower to be great, but 80% still seems low to me.

I think you have to factor into this that judgment plays a part in each block/charge call and evaluations of such calls [mostly likely taking place in slo-mo while the calls are made real-time] would give opportunity for anyone to second guess several of their own decisions... throw in the fact that someone else may be the judge of correctness and now their judgment clouds the issue and 80% starts to look pretty good!

I was watching the game in the lounge before our Association banquet with about 15 other basketball officials. Not a one said anything about the travel calls - he did!

The room did cringe when the last shot was blocked expecting a foul call with the body. The replay did show otherwise. Well done by the officials. Interesting that Steve Welmer was one of the crew working the game. To attach back to another thread it yet another game in a row for Mr Welmer.

BTW - The guest speaker was former Ohio State standout and now part time radio host Jay Burson. Jay Burson held the Ohio High School career scoring record until last Friday night when he was surpassed by none other than THE Jon Diebler. Burson and family were guests of the school for the game. About 2000 packed into a gym that holds 1500 (where's the fire marshall?). Fans gave Burson a standing "O" upon his entering into the gym. They passed out those give away basketballs. Jay said he thought he signed every single one. The best part was when his own 6 year old son asked him to sign a ball, not knowing why everyone else was asking for his dad's autograph.

You almost had me going there stmaryrams. Then you throw in this part and you lose all credibility. Jon Diebler passed away last month, how could he break the Ohio scoring record? :rolleyes:

This is obviously one of those hoax websites. Look at how many people they say attended the game: Also, look at his jersey, that's not a real team: http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/21/214362.jpg

Plus they say he dunked. Yeah right. :rolleyes: I've never seen a white guy from Ohio dunk.