How do you rate the SEC in basketball officiating poll...
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Consistently inconsistent with calls. What is a block on one end is a charge on the other end. Let players hammer each other then call a reach in, maddingly inconsistent, tend to make game changing calls at the end of the game instead of letting the players play. Like to be the center of attention.
A well refereed game is one where the officials are barely noticed. When is the last time you watched an SEC game and that was the case?
They are below average and arrogant.
A well refereed game is one where the officials are barely noticed. When is the last time you watched an SEC game and that was the case?
They are below average and arrogant.
and the difference incompetenceand consistency is night and day. Really, the only call that remains questionable in those games is the block/charge call (the most difficult call in basketball, I think...). Even throughout SEC games, calls inside, what constitutes a "foul" changes throughout the game. Little things aren't called on one end of the floor that are automatically called on the other end of the floor. Ticky-tack calls count sometimes when blatant pushes and wrist slaps don't get called. I know that is a lot that I am trying to say, but with officiating, you never know what you are gonna get (are they gonna let you play, or whistle you for breathing wrong). Not only that, you never know what is gonna get called and what isn't.
I know there are websites that tell you all about the refs and how they call the games, but I'm talking about a scenario like this:<div>
</div><div>Each ref starts the year with 0 points. Refs get 1 point for every bad call, 1/2 point for missed calls added to their totals. If it's blatantly obvious that they know they made a bad call and don't correct it, 2 points. Whichever referee has the highest point total at the end of the year can no longer officiate in the SEC. Simple, but it will never happen. At least you'd get the worst one each year.</div>
</div><div>Each ref starts the year with 0 points. Refs get 1 point for every bad call, 1/2 point for missed calls added to their totals. If it's blatantly obvious that they know they made a bad call and don't correct it, 2 points. Whichever referee has the highest point total at the end of the year can no longer officiate in the SEC. Simple, but it will never happen. At least you'd get the worst one each year.</div>
For reference, my dad has refereed Division I NCAA basketball for almost 15 years, and has been to the tournament many of those years, including the Sweet 16.
I can tell you that the SEC refs make decent money, but not the best. In fact many non-major conferences pay more to their refs than the SEC does. The good refs will go where the money is, and most refs will belong to multiple conferences. The SEC pays good, but not the best. Also, what is considered a good ref by the fans, is not necessarily a good ref by the coaches point of view. Many refs will actually try to please the coaches instead of calling the game exactly how they see it. A coach will say a ref is bad if the fouls are one-sided, even if that's the way it really was. It's not uncommon at all for referees to keep the fouls on both teams close just so neither coach gives them a bad rating. This is more based on individual refs, though, and not the crew. To a ref, two average ratings (by a coach) are better than one good and one bad.
Coaches can actually block a couple of refs each year from refereeing their team. If a ref is blocked by enough coaches that ref will get fewer games in the future.
Also, the commissioner of a league has no impact on how refs will call games... In other words, Slive has no impact of how the calls go in MSU games. That's not to say that a referee doesn't have something personal against a team or coach, but that conferences commissioner certainly won't influence them.
I voted "average" in the poll, btw.
I can tell you that the SEC refs make decent money, but not the best. In fact many non-major conferences pay more to their refs than the SEC does. The good refs will go where the money is, and most refs will belong to multiple conferences. The SEC pays good, but not the best. Also, what is considered a good ref by the fans, is not necessarily a good ref by the coaches point of view. Many refs will actually try to please the coaches instead of calling the game exactly how they see it. A coach will say a ref is bad if the fouls are one-sided, even if that's the way it really was. It's not uncommon at all for referees to keep the fouls on both teams close just so neither coach gives them a bad rating. This is more based on individual refs, though, and not the crew. To a ref, two average ratings (by a coach) are better than one good and one bad.
Coaches can actually block a couple of refs each year from refereeing their team. If a ref is blocked by enough coaches that ref will get fewer games in the future.
Also, the commissioner of a league has no impact on how refs will call games... In other words, Slive has no impact of how the calls go in MSU games. That's not to say that a referee doesn't have something personal against a team or coach, but that conferences commissioner certainly won't influence them.
I voted "average" in the poll, btw.