Tim Higgins

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by big jake

They have been trying to get rid of Higgins for several years. Burr is still a good official when he is not overworked. I think today might just be the last time you see Tim on ESPN?

Lets just say that's there's a helluva lot better chance of us seeing Higgins on ESPN than seeing you or mightyvol anywhere.

They missed a call. You haven't? Get over it.

It's that time of year.

[grunewar]

Digger Phelps and the boys on ESPN are hammering them about suspensions for the rest of the Big East Tourney, injuries, age and being slow, being over worked and out position.

Everyone pile on now......

[Rufus]

Just saw the Rutgers coach who was interviewed and he made what I thought were the right noises (basically that a mistake was made, that he made several mistakes as did his players during the course of the game). Nice to see at least one person keeping his head during what many will be going nuts about.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Just saw the Rutgers coach who was interviewed and he made what I thought were the right noises (basically that a mistake was made, that he made several mistakes as did his players during the course of the game). Nice to see at least one person keeping his head during what many will be going nuts about.

I know Mike Rice very well from my coaching days. I was a varsity assistant and our HC had close ties to him and I coached at his Eastern Invitational camps for several summers.

In the few times I've seen him since I stopped coaching he's given me a hard time about my choice to officiate. But he is a very good coach and "gets it" when it comes to how hard officiating really is. I imagine he could be a handful during games b/c he likes to talk and drops F bombs in just about every sentence. But that's when he's talking to other coaches and just in general. I've never been around him when he's coaching a real game.

As for the crew, I have no clue how much impact this will have on their officiating futures. This was a pretty bad miss in a relatively big spotlight. We all miss calls but as John Adams said, "not officiating to the end of a game is unacceptable." It will be interesting to see the ramifications from this.

[LeeBallanfant]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

I know Mike Rice very well from my coaching days. I was a varsity assistant and our HC had close ties to him and I coached at his Eastern Invitational camps for several summers.

In the few times I've seen him since I stopped coaching he's given me a hard time about my choice to officiate. But he is a very good coach and "gets it" when it comes to how hard officiating really is. I imagine he could be a handful during games b/c he likes to talk and drops F bombs in just about every sentence. But that's when he's talking to other coaches and just in general. I've never been around him when he's coaching a real game.

As for the crew, I have no clue how much impact this will have on their officiating futures. This was a pretty bad miss in a relatively big spotlight. We all miss calls but as John Adams said, "not officiating to the end of a game is unacceptable." It will be interesting to see the ramifications from this.

Any one mention that the two coaches did not coach until the end of the game either.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

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Any one mention that the two coaches did not coach until the end of the game either.

I don't know but if you read Rice's comments he talked about mistakes that he, his staff, and his players made and did not take what would have been an easy route and focus on the officials.

And as an official, it does not matter one bit that the coaches didn't coach until the end of the game (whatever that means). Bottom line is that was a REALLY bad miss at the end of the game by this crew. We all miss calls but one of the main points that they guy who trained me stressed was to always officiate to the end of the game. It seems that this crew did not do that today.

[APG]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

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Any one mention that the two coaches did not coach until the end of the game either.

What does this have to do with the end of game sequence? How we officiate is not dictated by if the coaches "did not coach until the end of the game either," though I'm not sure what you even mean by that.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

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Any one mention that the two coaches did not coach until the end of the game either.

And I just heard all of Rice's comments in the post game press conference. He was a class act and went way above and beyond to take the blame off the officials, praised them, and said "we have the best officials in America."

Makes the comment above even more absurd.

[LeeBallanfant]

Originally Posted by big jake

name is not jake, but my jake is big

You do sound like a big prick.