zebra15

Like the last comment. Always good to hear

Record for the season:

Officials 1-0, NCC 0-1. :clap:

Would that have been the right call if it wasn't at the end of the game?

I agree 110% :thumb:, as a scorekeeper you hear all kinds of things directed towards players, coaches, and most of all officials. If the officials would take just two minutes and take care of the problems I think that these basketball games would'n be a little more fun to watch. And maybe we wouldn't have to listen to the ADULTS act like 3 year olds!

Officials have enough work to do on the floor and worrying about who or what is being said in a ball buster of a game is the least of their concerns. Game management is there to take care of unruly fans and did their job last night. I can say I never heard Coach Fookes say anything abusive or nasty. She is a fiery coach and that bothers some but I can say as a former male player that her intensity is what I love in a coach.

I don't doubt what you heard at all colby because I have heard a lot of the words come out of her mouth during games too but because she the "HOLY NELL", nothing will be done about it. I think players just learn to expect that from her and apparently the parents of the players haven't brought this issue strong enough to the administration. Hey, as long as she wins, apparently she can do NO wrong.

I can say that I never heard any foul language come out of the coach's mouth.

That's exactly what I am saying and I think you're trying to say 'partial' every time you said 'impartial', but I think everyone knows what you were trying to say. I don't personally know the refs so I couldn't possibly know their reasons why. I believe that the Birds ultimately are a better team and that they'd go further into post-season play than NCC. If I could surmise, which would not be fair of me, I'm guessing that it's possible that they too want to see the best teams advance to better the chances of the 9th Region, aren't too wild about the blind draw, know that if they've got something to say about it they sure can have a voice and a hand in it to do so. I'd like to see the best teams advance too only if it doesn't leave a bad taste in the mouth and the winning team does so without any help. Ya gotta let it happen out on the court and not let your personal desires interfere with the outcome. That's probably asking too much of humans, but until we figure out how to have robots call the game, it would be nice if they would let the players decide the outcome themselves. Whether their actions were unintentional or blatant, I do not know. I just know that it smelled rotten to me. I don't think I'm pointing out anything here that hasn't happened before in the history of the game or any officiated sport. You just want the officials to be as impartial as possible. I don't know it anyone remembers Tommy Thompson, but that guy, human and all, called a game as straight as humanly possible. I'd like to see more callers like him. I could never detect from him at all who he might've wanted to win a game. Others seem to wear it on their sleeves and know that most people will say a fan is sour grapes if they protest. I'm a fan of the game though and wasn't rooting for any particular team. Refs have a hard time fooling guys like me. I guess you can say that when I go to a game I can impartially officiate the officials. Not my job, but I guess if there's anything I can say about it this is the best place to do it. Thank you BGP's for the opportunity to vent.

I am just curious to know what the foul total was for each team so I know how partial the officiating was to winner's side.