Originally Posted by zebraman (Post 703153)

The officials who got picked for these early season TV games are some of the bigger of the big dogs. What message does it send when they allow the abuse?

1) You have to allow the abuse to get to their level.

2) If the big dogs put up with it, then the little dogs should too.

Pathetic. It appears as if the coaches and refs in the Maui tournament are not only sharing a room, but also a bed. :eek:

Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 703331)

Funny how you mention Izzo and Calapari and not Romar's similar foot stomping outbursts. If called as you wish (and I agree with your general point), Romar would have been DQ'd more than once in just one game. There was on incident where Romar would have made a baseball manager proud with the way he was barking in the face of TWO officials at the same time. The only thing missing was a little dirt to kick on their shoes.

Originally Posted by zebraman (Post 703361)

Coach Romar is usually pretty calm. But he is quite bright. When he feels that officials are being intimidated by an opposing coach who is being a tyrant, he will sometimes bark a little too so that the officials know that there are two coaches on the sidelines.

Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 703331)

Funny how you mention Izzo and Calapari and not Romar's similar foot stomping outbursts. If called as you wish (and I agree with your general point), Romar would have been DQ'd more than once in just one game. There was on incident where Romar would have made a baseball manager proud with the way he was barking in the face of TWO officials at the same time. The only thing missing was a little dirt to kick on their shoes.

Originally Posted by rockyroad (Post 703365)

This is true. However, Romar's outburst came after Calipari had gone on several rants - including the one where he was dropping f-bombs on the crew. That does not mean I condone Romar's actions, but maybe he thought he needed to get in their ear also??? I don't know...it just looks horrible and makes officials in general look bad.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 703362)

What Camron describes seems pretty different from your assessment.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef (Post 703383)

Even so, if the refs are letting Izzo do it then Romar is just following suit.