Did Holmes suffer adversely in the Sweet 16 last year due to different styles of officiating?

Did Holmes suffer adversely in the Sweet 16 last year due to different styles of officiating?

 

Only with the ruling on players being disqualified for leaving the bench area...:idunno:

I think the Bluegrass Association and the western regions in the state allow more physical play than the mountain regions.

Only with the ruling on players being disqualified for leaving the bench area...:idunno:

 

:sssh: agreed....however, that was more a KHSAA decision than an officiating one.

If you look at a player on the other team too hard in the ninth you will get a foul from the men in stripes.... Then again in some Regions, you won't get a foul called on you unless you draw blood. There has got to be some middle ground and the KHSAA need to set some standards for all to follow....

 

I attended the Elliott County/Anderson County game and the officials allowed a fairly physical game. I thought that the game was fairly called but drawing blood did not necessarily get a foul called.

If you look at a player on the other team too hard in the ninth you will get a foul from the men in stripes.... Then again in some Regions, you won't get a foul called on you unless you draw blood. There has got to be some middle ground and the KHSAA need to set some standards for all to follow....

 

I agree! In the 9th region, I feel they don't even let them play.

Agree the BBA is among the best in the state, and definately allow more physicality than some of the others. Also agree the 9th has a tendency to call too many touchy-feely fouls and incidental hand checks. You can hear it from the stands when a 9th region team ventures into the 10th, or many other parts of the state.

 

9th region refs not only have a tendency to call touchy feely, but to also be inconsistent. Its no handchecking on the ball but nearly lawless under the rim.

It is a point of emphasis this year to call handchecks, illegal screens and rough low post play and I am seeing this across the board and across the regions. No one likes to see tons of fouls called off the ball but it does seem the game of basketball is getting a lot more physical off ball. Most of the games i see are in the 10th and 11th and it seems the players and coaches are adjusting well. The calls made by the BBA officials in the games I have seen have not hurt the game at all but rather seem to be speeding them up a little more. Basketball in the 10th and 11th is like none other even with the emphasis.

I was watching a game this weekend. For those of you that say some regions call it too tightly, you should have watched this game. The refs did NOT call it tightly and fans and coaches both lost their minds.

This is way over the top -- the "inconsitencies" that occur from region to region are no different than from conference to conference at the college level. Sure, it would be great to have a bunch of clones running around with everything exactly the same, but thats not what we have. You shouldn't complian that the Big East doesn't call things the same as the Pac10. That is why you don't see conference officials working their own conferences in the tournament and you will never see a 9th Region official working Holmes at Rupp.

 

Officials try to call it as consistantly as possible and even talk this in the pregame.

 

I know that when I played, and whenever I hear from coaches, the talk was (is) to adapt to the way a game is being called. If a ref is going to let the big men beat it out of each other, you need to be prepared to do it. On the other hand, if it's going to be a ballet night you should be ready for that too. This is part of the advantage / disadvantage game. With 2 guys 6'4, 220lbs you can let them bump around without one gaining an unfair advantage. However when one of them weighs a modest 175, that same bump can gain a huge advantage.

 

As I climb off of the almighty soapbox, I can only add "GET OVER IT ".:argue::argue::argue::argue:

This is way over the top -- the "inconsitencies" that occur from region to region are no different than from conference to conference at the college level. Sure, it would be great to have a bunch of clones running around with everything exactly the same, but thats not what we have. You shouldn't complian that the Big East doesn't call things the same as the Pac10. That is why you don't see conference officials working their own conferences in the tournament and you will never see a 9th Region official working Holmes at Rupp.

 

Officials try to call it as consistantly as possible and even talk this in the pregame.

 

I know that when I played, and whenever I hear from coaches, the talk was (is) to adapt to the way a game is being called. If a ref is going to let the big men beat it out of each other, you need to be prepared to do it. On the other hand, if it's going to be a ballet night you should be ready for that too. This is part of the advantage / disadvantage game. With 2 guys 6'4, 220lbs you can let them bump around without one gaining an unfair advantage. However when one of them weighs a modest 175, that same bump can gain a huge advantage.

 

As I climb off of the almighty soapbox, I can only add "GET OVER IT ".:argue::argue::argue::argue:

 

Well said! :thumb:

Only with the ruling on players being disqualified for leaving the bench area...:idunno:

 

That's a good one!

That's a good one!

 

Took me a while but I get it:lol:

IMO, the 12th is pretty weak. We have a couple of good officials but the majority are spotty. Scott Bottoms and Tony Gray are the top with a big gap between the next level. This officiating association is full of politics and "who you know" tactics.