Get the play right ? ?!?

[Muncie]

As a fan I'll gladly give up some of this constant going to the cameras so we can "get the play right ". In my opinion it so slows the game down not worth all the perfectionism that often is not so perfect anyway . Thoughts ?

[atljar]

I rather watch a slow game than lose a game because of a bunk call

[vee4xu]

I'll tell you what needs done to shorten games, have the refs swallow their whistles. The last 12 minutes of yesterday's second half was painful. It's no fun watching a free throw shooting contest instead of running plays in the flow of the regular offense.

[Backyard Champ]

Vee, I hope refs don't all of a sudden start swallowing their whistles- well maybe I'd be okay if a certain few did- but they are trying to change the game. College basketball has been pretty bad for a while, refs letting teams get away with way too much for too long. The result? Low 60's scores. It stinks and will for a few years until players adjust completely, but something had to change.

Though it seems like beginning of the year refs are always much more whistle happy, then come January they start calling games completely different than in the OOC. That should change.

As for replays, I think it's necessary. I'd rather have the correct call than be screwed over so we could speed the game up.

[X-band '01]

Just put a time limit on replay if it's a judgment call.

[XU 87]

Vee, I hope refs don't all of a sudden start swallowing their whistles- well maybe I'd be okay if a certain few did- but they are trying to change the game. College basketball has been pretty bad for a while, refs letting teams get away with way too much for too long. The result? Low 60's scores. It stinks and will for a few years until players adjust completely, but something had to change.




I agree with this. College basketball got way too physical with all the body and hand checks etc. They are trying to get the game back where people can move more freely on offense. It will help with higher scoring.

[vee4xu]

Yeah, I see what you guys are saying about rough play, but there's no flow in many of the games I'm watching, not just XU games. There has to be some happy medium between an all-out physical free-for-all and 10 minutes of free throws and whistles every 5 seconds. I don't know what's the answer, but it has to change to some reasonable level of whistles.

[XUFan09]

Yeah, I see what you guys are saying about rough play, but there's no flow in many of the games I'm watching, not just XU games. There has to be some happy medium between an all-out physical free-for-all and 10 minutes of free throws and whistles every 5 seconds. I don't know what's the answer, but it has to change to some reasonable level of whistles.
The happy medium comes when the players learn to stop fouling after a long time of getting away with it. You can't really have the improved game without the rough transition.

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[XU 87]

The happy medium comes when the players learn to stop fouling after a long time of getting away with it. You can't really have the improved game without the rough transition.

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I agree with that as well. There are now some automatic calls that keep getting called over and over again- two hands on the offensive player, the semi-moving screen, the body block when offensive player is cutting through the lane, the body block on the defensive hedge (O'Mara yesterday), to name a few.

[D-West & PO-Z]

The happy medium comes when the players learn to stop fouling after a long time of getting away with it. You can't really have the improved game without the rough transition.

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Yes this, it will take a while but that is the solution (and it will happen) not the refs changing.

[ammtd34]

The referees in the Ohio State vs Maryland game reviewed a late out of bounds call and got it wrong anyway. That happens a lot. A play will be reviewed and the evidence is apparently ignored anyway.

[Muncie]

The referees in the Ohio State vs Maryland game reviewed a late out of bounds call and got it wrong anyway. That happens a lot. A play will be reviewed and the evidence is apparently ignored anyway........This is my point I would rather watch the game than the zebras stare at a screen then just make a subjective call anyway . Officiating is an art not a science and they will get it right or wrong with or without the stare do da. Play the game.