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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 05:58pm
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That's a very silly comment, coming from an assignor. The official is not part of the problem. The fact that the assignor put him in a position to butt heads with the same guy 4 times in 2 weeks is a problem.
You're right in thinking that the assignor shouldn't have given that many assignments to the same official in that short a time frame. However, that is NO excuse for a coach to act like that imo.

Sorry, Scrappy, but if that's your thinking also, then you're part of the problem too.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 06:08pm
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You're right in thinking that the assignor shouldn't have given that many assignments to the same official in that short a time frame. However, that is NO excuse for a coach to act like that imo.
Let's see I started my initial post with:
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It certainly doesn't excuse Fox's behavior,...
and JR agrees with that, but still flips out.

Then I made the point that the problem is the assigning of an official to see the same team three times in nine days. The dates were March 1, 8, and 9 (and would have been 10 if Nevada had reached the final). JR agrees with that too. Yet he takes some shot at me for writing that.

Well look in the mirror, JR, because you just agreed with my two points. So I guess you are sad too.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 06:19pm
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Let's see I started my initial post with:..I believe that part of the problem lies with the fact that Nevada had Gracey in 3 of it's last 4 games"

Nevada, you intimated that Gracey was part of the problem. Gracey was not part of the problem. The head coach of Nevada, Fox, was the whole problem. No one else. There is absolutely NO excuse for his behavior imo.

Obviously, in your opinion, there is an excuse.

We disagree.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 06:32pm
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Nevada, you intimated that Gracey was part of the problem. Gracey was not part of the problem. The head coach of Nevada, Fox, was the whole problem. No one else. There is absolutely NO excuse for his behavior imo.

Obviously, in your opinion, there is an excuse.

We disagree.
I did no such thing. YOU inferred that from my post. YOUR mistake.

Now just to be crystal clear, I'm saying that the problem is having the same two people have to deal with each other in pressure situations, multiple times, in a short period of time. Confrontations are bound to happen under those circumstances because people sometimes let their emotions get the better of them. That is wrong, and I'm sure that Fox will be punished for it. Of course, the WAC conference needs to understand what it could have done better.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 06:39pm
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However, that is NO excuse for a coach to act like that imo.
Of course there's not. And no one has said that there is. Not sure where you're getting that from. The official is not at fault one iota in this situation. No one except you has even intimated that.

Having said that, every official and every assignor knows that it's simply not smart for an official to work the same team's games multiple times in a very short period of time. And this coach's reaction is exactly why it's not smart. That's all we're saying.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:01pm
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And no one has said that there is. Not sure where you're getting that from.
I'm getting that from the guy that said that having that official on the game was part of the problem. I quoted the exact words that he used verbatim. The only problem was the coach's post-game behavior. The official was not part of that problem.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:03pm
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Old people...Sheesh.

Once they get something in their mind, there's no convincing them of anything else.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:21pm
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Old people...Sheesh.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:42pm
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 08:18pm
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Hey, I got an idea. If you don't want to read something, then don't. And don't bother trying to tell other people what they can post either.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 08:31pm
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Nah, here's the quick summary:

Coach goes way out of bounds.

Some people would like to blame someone other than the coach for his idiotic behavior.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:52pm
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I'm getting that from the guy that said that having that official on the game was part of the problem.
That's right. Having that official on the game was part of the problem. Not because the official did anything wrong; but because it gives the coach an easy excuse to do what he did.

Come on, Jurassic; this is Assigning 101. Stop trying to make it something it's not.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 08:15pm
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That's right. Having that official on the game was part of the problem. Not because the official did anything wrong; but because it gives the coach an easy excuse to do what he did.

Come on, Jurassic; this is Assigning 101. Stop trying to make it something it's not.
If the official didn't do anything wrong, then howinthehell can he be part of the problem? Hell, even if he did do something wrong, he's still not part of the problem. The coach's post-game behavior was the problem. Period! Officials make mistakes and miss calls. That doesn't mean that they have to put up with post-game abuse like that.

Assigning had dick-all to do with that coach's behavior also. The problem after the game lies solely with the the coach. When it comes to behavior like that, there are no mitigating factors imo.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:49pm
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Of course there's not. And no one has said that there is. Not sure where you're getting that from. The official is not at fault one iota in this situation. No one except you has even intimated that.

Having said that, every official and every assignor knows that it's simply not smart for an official to work the same team's games multiple times in a very short period of time. And this coach's reaction is exactly why it's not smart. That's all we're saying.
To say it is not smart is kind of silly. For one the D1 level is another level of professionalism. There are things we do as high school and JH officials that they never have to worry about. If the coach cannot handle that, maybe he will not be at that level very long. And it is not uncommon to have the same team multiple times in a season.

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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 07:52pm
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Please explain why the NCAA selects ten different officials for the Final Four instead of just taking six plus an alternate and having three of those six also work the Championship game.
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