Interesting Article/Read on Officials and Thoughts from Coaches

[Nepos]

Were the authors of this study also Japanese filmmakers? Because I’m pretty sure I saw a major 1950 Samurai film based on their findings!

Kurosawa was a wise man

[awhom111]

Watching a few minutes of NC State-Virginia, I found out about a foolproof way of making sure unwanted refs are not assigned to your game. Enroll one of their family members at your school.

[brevity]

Watching a few minutes of NC State-Virginia, I found out about a foolproof way of making sure unwanted refs are not assigned to your game. Enroll one of their family members at your school.

Jon Scheyer is way ahead of you. Meet next season's Fuqua grad transfer:

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[AGDukesky]

Jon Scheyer is way ahead of you. Meet next season's Fuqua grad transfer:

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Randolph and Mortimer Duke fully endorse this post!

[wavedukefan70s]

https://theathletic.com/2974610/2021...me-some-teddy/

I hope it's alright to post this article, but I found it really interesting. It gave coaches an anonymous platform to speak on some of the more well-known college basketball officials.

As a high school basketball referee myself, I understand how difficult the job can be and also recognize just how fast the pace of the game can be at the high school level. The job is NOT easy, folks.

Lord help you. I've seen some down right
Nasty fans at a few highschool games here. Hopefully not as bad where you are.

[wavedukefan70s]

Ayers is considered one of the best refs in the country: https://kenpom.com/blog/roger-ayers-is-the-best-ref/ even if fans like to complain.

tv Teddy gets deserved hate for his antics

Lol I haven't seen him locally since before covid.
He's a nice guy.well he was that day anyway.

[wavedukefan70s]

A few years ago the NCAA tried to institute more freedom of movement and make the game less physical, which resulted in early season games with whistles on almost every possession and people were losing their minds because it was unwatchable. I agree the game needs more freedom and flow but don’t know how to get there.

Separately, I liked it back in the day when the refs used the concept of “advantage” in determining fouls. So an offensive player throws himself into a defender who has not totally established legal guarding position, that’s an offensive foul or no-call. It’s hard to define and determine “advantage” in the era of high speed cameras but would eliminate foul seeking behavior that I think is part of the current problem.

That call drives me nuts.
The offensive player throws himself into a defender gets rewarded makes no sense to me.