Big-12 admits to officiating errors in KU game

[coolm]

wow

http://news.yahoo.com/big-12-admits-officiating-errors-kansas-win-233530054--spt.html

 

[p230]

Some one need to check the temp in the underworld it may have frozen over with the rest of Oklahoma.

 

[robinT]

Those were some pretty glaring no-calls at the end of the game. Another one that I couldn't believe was the foul on Withey (that would have fouled him out, I believe) that Young raised his hand on and it was accepted as a Young foul. I couldn't believe Hoiberg didn't make an issue of it.

 

[KCRuf/Nek]

Those were some pretty glaring no-calls at the end of the game. Another one that I couldn't believe was the foul on Withey (that would have fouled him out, I believe) that Young raised his hand on and it was accepted as a Young foul. I couldn't believe Hoiberg didn't make an issue of it.

All the KU humps today were crying about a bad call on him early on so in their minds it was a wash.

 

[DenverSooner]

Why is it that government officials and college referees often cannot be named? It just makes you think of a cover up or conspiracy. Just say the guys name. It is simple:

John Doe screwed up. He has officiated for X years, generally done a good job, we still have faith in him, he will still call games but he loses 5 assignments for this error.

That would be so much better than this secrecy.

 

[steverocks35]

I was bored last night so I watched Baylor/OU on the DVR. In the first half there was a question on who a foul was on so the officials went to the monitor to determine the right guy to charge with the foul (according to the announcers). I don't understand why this couldn't be done in the KU/ISU game.

 

[Swans]

The Big 12 has decided to make it up to ISU in their next game.

 

[campbest]

I was bored last night so I watched Baylor/OU on the DVR. In the first half there was a question on who a foul was on so the officials went to the monitor to determine the right guy to charge with the foul (according to the announcers). I don't understand why this couldn't be done in the KU/ISU game.

They either a.) did it incorrectly, the rule does not allow that or b.) were confirming the shooter, which is allowed. Don't remember what the announcers on TV broadcast said, but Fraschilla (who did the KU/ISU game) knew that you couldn't go to the monitor to confirm the fouler.

 

[AdaSooner]

Why is it that government officials and college referees often cannot be named? It just makes you think of a cover up or conspiracy. Just say the guys name. It is simple:

John Doe screwed up. He has officiated for X years, generally done a good job, we still have faith in him, he will still call games but he loses 5 assignments for this error.

That would be so much better than this secrecy.

Here you go:

Officials Tom O'Neill, Mark Whitehead and Bert Smith were convicted of extreme negligence in Monday night's Kansas-Iowa State basketball game. Smith was the baseline official who chose to ignore a charging foul that would eventually seal ISU's fate. He compounded his error a short time later by making an untimely, questionable call to put a KU player on the line to tie the game and send it into overtime. Whitehead and O'Neill were complicit in the crime by allowing a KU player to remain on the floor after receiving his fifth foul, and by refusing to blow their whistle when Smith failed in his duties.

The Big 12 Conference did not announce the specifics of the punishment these officials will receive. However, an inside source told this reporter that O'Neill and Whitehead will be suspended one conference game next year and be forced to take a bus from the airport when calling future ISU games, to prove their humility. Smith will have to sit out two games and write "I am a bad official" fifty times on Bill Self's bald head. This is believed to be the biggest penalty a Big 12 basketball official has received for deciding the outcome of a game in the last fifty years. Repeated attempts to reach the Big 12's supervisor of officials by telephone were not successful.

 

[steverocks35]

They either a.) did it incorrectly, the rule does not allow that or b.) were confirming the shooter, which is allowed. Don't remember what the announcers on TV broadcast said, but Fraschilla (who did the KU/ISU game) knew that you couldn't go to the monitor to confirm the fouler.

The announcer clearly stated that the officials were trying to figure out who to give the foul to, they obviously could have been wrong.