Including Purdue fans. I'm tired of hearing it! The rules are clear. You can't swipe down on a players arms. You can't put your full body weight into an offensive players even as the primary defender, you can't hold a players arms and claw at them, and you can't lock arms in front of an opposing playing on ft shots. All of these things are fouls no exception. I'm tired of hearing from fans, press and media that he is hard to officiate. It's a cop out and people who say it are f'ing idiots.
No where in the rules book does it say "these are the rules unless you are bigger than the opposing team."
I would say the big ten should be ashamed, but they could give two shits. Is it an embarrassment of course. Will anything change of course not. They should want one of their great teams to get the number one overall to give them the best chance to succeed.
I have been critical of refs in the past, but no one will even convince me Purdue lost this game due to "turnovers". The refs let the game get away from them, and never tried to remedy anything. There is a reason Edey was seen throwing passes to no one. Something he has barely done all year. It's because NW was literally HANGING onto him on every possession. It's sad, and almost unbelievable at the same time. How do these f'ing refs still get to be employeed after they call a game it's hard to say they didn't have money on?
I understand it can be hard to make calls in real time, but when you get all the time you want on replays, and still do not make calls based on the rules?? Gillis clearly went for the ball. It's obvious that the NW player was hit by Jenkins and then bounced off Gillis, but nothing in the rules dictated that play being upgraded to a flagrant. NOTHING! The refs influenced that game until the final sec and will see no punishment. I understand there will be games that Purdue has to overcome bad calls, but in these situations how is any team expected to come out ahead?
This is my rant for the night as a day later I am still upset as I have even been by a loss. I never expected Purdue to go unbeaten, even after an unexpected brilliant start, but games like this should show people why it's so hard to make it deep into the NCAA tourny. One bad officiating night and your team is toast. Sad but true. Games like the Purude NW game don't get teams ready for the NCAA tourney they hinder them as they aren't basketball games but boxing matches and should have no place is college basketball.
God speed Boiler fans and I hope we get to hang a national championship banner this year.
No where in the rules book does it say "these are the rules unless you are bigger than the opposing team."
I would say the big ten should be ashamed, but they could give two shits. Is it an embarrassment of course. Will anything change of course not. They should want one of their great teams to get the number one overall to give them the best chance to succeed.
I have been critical of refs in the past, but no one will even convince me Purdue lost this game due to "turnovers". The refs let the game get away from them, and never tried to remedy anything. There is a reason Edey was seen throwing passes to no one. Something he has barely done all year. It's because NW was literally HANGING onto him on every possession. It's sad, and almost unbelievable at the same time. How do these f'ing refs still get to be employeed after they call a game it's hard to say they didn't have money on?
I understand it can be hard to make calls in real time, but when you get all the time you want on replays, and still do not make calls based on the rules?? Gillis clearly went for the ball. It's obvious that the NW player was hit by Jenkins and then bounced off Gillis, but nothing in the rules dictated that play being upgraded to a flagrant. NOTHING! The refs influenced that game until the final sec and will see no punishment. I understand there will be games that Purdue has to overcome bad calls, but in these situations how is any team expected to come out ahead?
This is my rant for the night as a day later I am still upset as I have even been by a loss. I never expected Purdue to go unbeaten, even after an unexpected brilliant start, but games like this should show people why it's so hard to make it deep into the NCAA tourny. One bad officiating night and your team is toast. Sad but true. Games like the Purude NW game don't get teams ready for the NCAA tourney they hinder them as they aren't basketball games but boxing matches and should have no place is college basketball.
God speed Boiler fans and I hope we get to hang a national championship banner this year.
