Rate The Crews........

[maroonx]

Overall. Absolutely terrible. I cant believe that travel violations are not being called. Too many times, the defense is called for a foul after the offensive player travels. Its hard to watch and when a player's arms accidently connects with a player above the shoulder they have to stop the game and go to the monitor. That sucks.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by maroonx

Overall. Absolutely terrible. I cant believe that travel violations are not being called. Too many times, the defense is called for a foul after the offensive player travels. Its hard to watch and when a player's arms accidently connects with a player above the shoulder they have to stop the game and go to the monitor. That sucks.

Just so you know the rule does not distinguish if an elbow is accidental or not, it is not allowed in most situations. If the coaches do not like that rule, they will change it. They created this monster in the first place.

Peace

[Welpe]

I need to log some more games in my Laz-e-Boy before I can even think about rating these crews...

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I need to log some more games in my Laz-e-Boy before I can even think about rating these crews...

Haven't seen much this year. Haven't really been that interested, to be honest.

That might explain the performance of my brackets.

[chapmaja]

I've seen a ton of calls I have not agreed with so far this tourney season (men and women).

The above mentioned Baylor-Louisville game is the most controversial.

My biggest complaint about the tourney has not been with the officiating, it is with the rules.

How many times have we witnessed a team without a timeout remaining getting extra time while the officials review how much time is on the clock. This rule has the potential to significantly alter the ending of a game.

The handling of clock issues should be the same as rule 5-10 of the NFHS book. Spending 2 minutes to determine if the clock should read 2.3 or 2.4 remaining is ridiculous when it gives a team what amounts to an additional time out to set up a play they otherwise would not have a chance to set up if the element of human error was still allowed.

If the officials know an error occurred then they should be allowed to review, which has happened a couple times this tourney (like a full second off the clock for example), but when we are talking about the margin of human error) roughly .14 for reaction time we are to nit picky.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

I've seen a ton of calls I have not agreed with so far this tourney season (men and women).

The above mentioned Baylor-Louisville game is the most controversial.

My biggest complaint about the tourney has not been with the officiating, it is with the rules.

How many times have we witnessed a team without a timeout remaining getting extra time while the officials review how much time is on the clock. This rule has the potential to significantly alter the ending of a game.

The handling of clock issues should be the same as rule 5-10 of the NFHS book. Spending 2 minutes to determine if the clock should read 2.3 or 2.4 remaining is ridiculous when it gives a team what amounts to an additional time out to set up a play they otherwise would not have a chance to set up if the element of human error was still allowed.

If the officials know an error occurred then they should be allowed to review, which has happened a couple times this tourney (like a full second off the clock for example), but when we are talking about the margin of human error) roughly .14 for reaction time we are to nit picky.

Blame the coaches and ADs who write the rules. Maybe they like that free time out.

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Blame the coaches and ADs who write the rules. Maybe they like that free time out.

No problem with doing that. It seems like the NCAA (the coaches, and AD's as well) speak out of both sides of their mouths. One one side they complain about the "speed of the game", then at the same time they make rules like this which amount to taking an extra few timeouts during the game.