The Ref in Clark's Face

[pnkranger]

Did you all see this?

https://vine.co/v/MuXdOYZJtYh

 

[MNsooner]

It's hard to tell what is going on, but it looks like Clark was getting after Hornbeak and needed someone to shut him down. Clark looked like he was on the verge of doing something dumb a few times.

 

[furge]

I'm pretty sure that was from the sequence about 5:00 before half where Clark and Cousins got to jawing at each other after they got tangled. Warning that a tech is coming, I'm sure.

 

[p230]

I wondered too but to me the big thing was not the jawing or warning it was the look on Clarks face as he backed away. He has impuse control issues by the looks of it. I can speak from experience when I was his age sometimes the filter between my brain and mouth became disengaged. He needs to work on that.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Just speculation on my part ... It appears that as Clark turns, his elbow grazes Cousin's chin, and the ref is looking right at it, at close range. It was probably accidental contact and it was not a hard blow, as Clark was holding his hands in the air over his head.

The ref seems to be trying to defuse the potential situation, although in a forceful manner. Cousins did a good job of not overreacting.

It is really hard to tell from such a short clip, as we don't have the context of what happened before.

 

[OrlandoSooner]

If it is the play, that I'm thinking of, Cousins was fouled on the drive to the basket by a different OSU player. As his motion carried him down the baseline in front of the camera people, Clark shoved him into the first row of photographers.

I noticed the ref getting into his face, yelling at him as the teams went into a TV timeout. I'm of the opinion that the refs should scream at players like he was doing to Clark. If Clarks's shove deserved a technical, then call it. If you want to warn him, fine, warn him. I don't think screaming at a player is what the ref should be doing.

 

[snydrosooner]

If it is the play, that I'm thinking of, Cousins was fouled on the drive to the basket by a different OSU player. As his motion carried him down the baseline in front of the camera people, Clark shoved him into the first row of photographers.

I noticed the ref getting into his face, yelling at him as the teams went into a TV timeout. I'm of the opinion that the refs should scream at players like he was doing to Clark. If Clarks's shove deserved a technical, then call it. If you want to warn him, fine, warn him. I don't think screaming at a player is what the ref should be doing.

Yes that is when that occured. Clark gave Cousins a body check after a whistle was blown. Not all that hard but it pushed Cousins into that row of press/special guest tabels on the north end by the student section. Cousins got up in clarks face and then the ref came over. I am assuming the ref was telling him that he was lucky he did not get a tech for knocking him to the floor and to back off. I think the ref probably should not have screamed at him, but he did give both clark and cousins a break. They could have easily both gotten techs there.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

... I don't think screaming at a player is what the ref should be doing.

It is certainly something you do not see everyday. Very unusual.

 

[oSuJeff97]

If it is the play, that I'm thinking of, Cousins was fouled on the drive to the basket by a different OSU player. As his motion carried him down the baseline in front of the camera people, Clark shoved him into the first row of photographers.

I noticed the ref getting into his face, yelling at him as the teams went into a TV timeout. I'm of the opinion that the refs should scream at players like he was doing to Clark. If Clarks's shove deserved a technical, then call it. If you want to warn him, fine, warn him. I don't think screaming at a player is what the ref should be doing.

That Vine video starts about 10 seconds late to show what actually happened.

Clark didn't shove anyone. Cousins' momentum going out of bounds is how he ended up in the photographers.

Clark was standing there as Cousins got up and then he (Cousins) shoved Clark. (It wasn't a big shove, but it was a shove.)

That's when Clark put his hands into the air and then the ref inexplicably started shouting at Clark.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

lol clark backed away like a lil b!tch

 

[oSuJeff97]

lol clark backed away like a lil b!tch

Idiotic statement is idiotic.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

That Vine video starts about 10 seconds late to show what actually happened.

Clark didn't shove anyone. Cousins' momentum going out of bounds is how he ended up in the photographers.

Clark was standing there as Cousins got up and then he (Cousins) shoved Clark. (It wasn't a big shove, but it was a shove.)

That's when Clark put his hands into the air and then the ref inexplicably started shouting at Clark.

oh my goodness where has the jeff of old gone?

I rewinded that play 5 times...clark gave cousins an unnecessary shove into the photographers.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Idiotic statement is idiotic.

he did. he backed down like a dog with his tail b/t his legs

 

[campbest]

Yes that is when that occured. Clark gave Cousins a body check after a whistle was blown. Not all that hard but it pushed Cousins into that row of press/special guest tabels on the north end by the student section. Cousins got up in clarks face and then the ref came over. I am assuming the ref was telling him that he was lucky he did not get a tech for knocking him to the floor and to back off. I think the ref probably should not have screamed at him, but he did give both clark and cousins a break. They could have easily both gotten techs there.

The screaming doesn't look good, but it's a much better than just blindly handing out double technicals...which usually accomplishes nothing.

 

[snydrosooner]

That Vine video starts about 10 seconds late to show what actually happened.

Clark didn't shove anyone. Cousins' momentum going out of bounds is how he ended up in the photographers.

Clark was standing there as Cousins got up and then he (Cousins) shoved Clark. (It wasn't a big shove, but it was a shove.)

That's when Clark put his hands into the air and then the ref inexplicably started shouting at Clark.

There was contact to knock cousins into the photographers. May not have been a shove but there was contact.

 

[CoachTalk]

Idiotic statement is idiotic.

He shouldn't even be on the basketball team if you coach had any balls. Or the prisoners didn't run the prison.

 

[pnkranger]

I think what gets the ref is not the initial shove but that Stevie continues to stand right in the middle of the action with his hands up and then tries to sneak in a light elbow to Cousins's face when he thinks the ref's not looking.

Sounds like the ref got tired of OSU jawing about every call.

 

[DenverSooner]

If it is the play, that I'm thinking of, Cousins was fouled on the drive to the basket by a different OSU player. As his motion carried him down the baseline in front of the camera people, Clark shoved him into the first row of photographers.

I noticed the ref getting into his face, yelling at him as the teams went into a TV timeout. I'm of the opinion that the refs should scream at players like he was doing to Clark. If Clarks's shove deserved a technical, then call it. If you want to warn him, fine, warn him. I don't think screaming at a player is what the ref should be doing.

It looked to me like the ref said that was Flagrant

 

[CoachTalk]

I hope the ref used the word pot head or stoner in there somewhere. Maybe that GIF can be on the next "bad lip reading"

 

[oukyle]

That Vine video starts about 10 seconds late to show what actually happened.

Clark didn't shove anyone. Cousins' momentum going out of bounds is how he ended up in the photographers.

Clark was standing there as Cousins got up and then he (Cousins) shoved Clark. (It wasn't a big shove, but it was a shove.)

That's when Clark put his hands into the air and then the ref inexplicably started shouting at Clark.

Wrong. Go back and watch it. I did here:

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/league/NCAAM/gameId/400498370/

It is just inside the 8 minute mark in the first half. Cousins drives the baseline, and is fouled by 23 (Leyton Hammonds) and is barely out of bounds and was not anywhere near the media table. Clark comes over and hip checks him and gives a shove causing an unbalanced Cousins to go into the media table. Cousins does not end up in the media table without Clark's "assistance".