Fwd: [Husker] Nebraska 70, Houston 57

[NUStLNorris at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/24/2006 11:12:08 PM Central Standard Time,  
rbeach at neb.rr.com writes:

I agree  with what you say for the most part.  I have 
officiated a lot of  games in my past on the high school and small 
college level.  It is  not the official's job to keep the fouls 
even.   It is not the  official's job to keep the fouls close.  It IS 
the official's job to  make the calls as they happen and let the chips 
fall where they  might.  Now I am not taking the side of the officials 
in the Rainbow  Classic.  I am just saying lopsided foul numbers 
doesn't translate  into the officials favoring one team over the other.


I had a coach one time get in my face for that very thing being 
his  team had many more fouls than the opposing team.  I asked him,  
"Coach, isn't it possible your team is fouling more than your  
opponent?"  I also told him it wasn't my job to call a foul and run  
down to the other end of the floor and call one to even it 
up.   Sometimes the fouls are fairly even and sometimes they're 
not.  It  just depends on the flow of the game.  With that said I have 
felt at  times mainland teams get the shaft in Hawaii.  But, these 
officials  supposedly were from the PAC 10 Conference.


Bob  Beach




 
This is a pretty condescending post, Bob.  You said that you agreed  with 
what I said "for the most part."  What did I say that you DIDN'T agree  with, 
because I never said anything remotely close to how the team  fouls should be 
even or the ref's job is to keep the team fouls close or  even?  I think most 
people on this list, basketball fans or otherwise,  probably knew that.  
 
Again, competancy of officiating is a matter of opinion (hopefully a  
knowledgable one).  I said there was one fact in this matter of  opinion -- that at 
the time of Sadler's rant the team foul situation was  7-zip.  And that fact 
MAY have been a factor in his  behavior.
 
I didn't need to hear a needless, condescending take from a ref or a  former 
ref implying that I said things that I didn't.   
 
Dave Norris