In case you missed it, Miami coach Frank Haith was ejected from this evening’s basketball game at Carolina following a 10 second sequence of no less than 3 bad (if not flagrantly) missed calls. It was nice to see a coach stand up for his team and declare that he was not going to turn the other cheek to the corrupt officiating that has infested our once great conference.
Updated: 2/1 @ 2:15pm
Thanks to the N&O for this blog entry. They have turned our attention to the following YouTube video from last night. We TOLD YOU that the ACC is going to hate the internets!! Folks, this is only the beginning of a revolution.
In the span of 28 seconds, this is what Karl Hess, Michael Kitts and Bob Donato missed:
• A goaltending on Brandan Wright
• A push on Tyler Hansbrough
• A dead ball call
• An insult-to-injury three-point play after the missed dead ball call
• A no-call on Hansbrough and defending Brian AsburyNow, even with every call, Haith wasn’t going to win this game. Heck, Ol’ Roy, Psycho T and the three freshmen could all get bounced and Miami wasn’t going to win. That’s not the point.
There should be more consistency by the officials, regardless of location and regardless of which coach is on the sidelines. Clearly, that’s not the case here.
Man, I missed the game. I really want to see this. I hope its “youtube”d, so I can see what happened. They sure as heck wont show the plays on ESPN. Not is Stu Scott has anything to do with it…
Here we go again. The refs cheat for Roy and K’s teams. All teams get bad calls. Its like golf sometimes you hit good shot, but you get a bad break. Those 3 missed calls really impacted the game. Miami keep it under 50. Lets worry about our Wolfpack and the hell with Carolina and Duke.
ol Frank needs a Lefty chair to kick!!!
Those were three blatently bad calls. Dapackster, maybe its not due to bias but it sure was incompetence. Either way Frank was right to stand up for his team. How long must we suffer through the joke officiating in the ACC has become?
I’m glad somebody showed some nads. It’s not whether you think it has an impact on the game. You can’t judge that by the final score. It is the fact that teams are forced to play over their heads, because they know that they are going to get jobbed when they play the boys in blue.
When you have to do that, you are going to tend to force things and get frustrated. It is a bunch of BS that teams are put in this position. If the boys in blue are so great, then why do they need “the benefit of the doubt.”
Let’s have a level playing field. I think that it would help the conference get back to the top. I don’t think the boys in blue and the 10 dwarfs is good for the health of the conference.
Thank you coach Haith…and maybe if some other coaches do the same, somone will pay attention…
…of course, I thought the VT coach was going to get tossed tonight b/c he thought we were getting the calls (and we got a lot).
We really did get our fair share of calls tonight and Greenberg was rightfully mad. The UNC reffing was downright awful.. It’s getting ridiculous to watch their games, watching Tyler Hansbrough travel up and down the court and watch complete blatant fouls not called.
Hansbrough is the white Shaq who can’t jump! He plows you over then does a “lay-up!”
Frank’s my new hero. I was actually out at dinner with my wife (a uncch fan) during this one, watching it on a TV in the restaurant. I’ve been trying to show her the problem with slanted officiating, and she’s slooowwwwwly recognizing it. After that sequence, and particularly the last call where the Miami guy was knocked down going to the rim hard (a call the player with the ball ALWAYS gets), I immediately said, “Haith’s gonna get tossed now”. You could see it from the way he responded… and he absolutely did the right thing.
Now someone needs to speak up in a postgame interview, take the discipline that come with it, and make it public. This *&^% has to stop. More than my hatred of all that is uncch, I can’t stand watching their games this year because there are at least 20 fairly obvious calls each game that go their way… and that less than 5 teams in the country would ever get.
Hansborough should change his last name to “Wilbury” as much as he travels. I guess the ACC rulebook sez that UNC players get an extra step (or two or three).
We need that Beo picture…I’m waiting for a coach to pull his team off of the floor one night w/ time on the clock. I’m afraid that’s what it will take.
The Blue and Light Blue fans are just obnoxious when it comes to watching games with them. They always think THEY”RE getting stiffed by the refs, but when you point out the blatant calls in their favor they smirk. The calls go both ways, but it does seem they get more than their share and alot at crucial momentum changing times. Oh well, they are in training for the pros where anything goes. By the way, gumbydammit, nice one about the “Wilburys”.
Hansbrough is the white Shaq who can’t jump! He plows you over then does a “lay-up!”
He never saw a travel he didn’t like as well………”"he loves to dance.”..”do the shuffle”"
This continues a 50+ year trend of biased ACC officiating…
One of the ‘blatant’ bad calls, Tyler’s block, was clean, as replays showed.
The missed goaltend call was absurdly bad though.
ESPN highlights of the game didn’t even mention that Haith had gotten a technical, much less ejected.
Did anyone see the end of the game where Copeland missed a dunk, kept one hand on the rim, caught the ball with the other hand, then let go of the rim, and then put back in a layup?
NO Technical called!!!!!!!!!!!! I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe the easiest call in the book wasn’t called but then I remember what team did it and thought that the refs are just getting ready for Saturday afternoon.
(”One of the ‘blatant’ bad calls, Tyler’s block, was clean, as replays showed.”)
He got all ball on the initial block, but the continuation shows him taking the guy down with his forearm. The cation of a play conitues the whole way through a play. If it didn’t then you wouldn’t have 3 pointplays or 4 point plays. Hamburgler took the guy to the ground using body, that is a foul.
I bet the man down in Texas told Haith a lot about ACC refs regarding UNC and Duke before he came to Miami. Some of those no-calls changed the momentum of the game.
BTW — Roy is classless for running up the score for some damned biscuits.
I sure this will be “handled internally” by the ACC. Can those “moving pictures” be introduced as evidence.
^ LOL!
As you already know…moving pictures aren’t evidence of anything. That is why we use video for instant replay?!
Follow-up: Exclusive interview with Tommy Hunt
I go back to Kenny Inge, that man was always being hit, grabbed and pushed. It seemed like 20 times a game he was getting up off the ground and he would get up and sometimes push someone back and he would called right away. For some strange reason he was the one called an undisciplined player.
Too bad that the Holes do not have to make the return trip to Miami this year. That is one of the worst parts of this new ACC, no longer the home and home series. There definitely would be some fireworks in Miami, would be worth watching a little just for that.
This has moved beyond anti-UNX paranoia to blatant favoritism with the video to prove it. The ACC needs to do something about these referees — now.
At least the TV guys got it right and provided good commentary that was not one sided. These guys may never get to do another Holes or Duke game again if they keep up the non-biased analysis of a game.
“There should be more consistency by the officials”
They are. They are consistently bad. At least when the Pac-10 had the ref issues in football this past year, they had the guts to suspend the crew.
Herb would have stamped his foot very hard.
Yep Beo - that’s one thing I like about Sidney - he’s giving it to the officials. We saw what proceeding the gentlmanly route got Herb.
I actually saw him get tee’d up for having the audicity to yell at the ref:
“What’s the difference?”
He didn’t even curse..It was unreal what little respect he was given. I know he did the complaining by the book. However, as Coach K demonstrated, it’s not enough to send tapes to the league office. COACHES FROM SCHOOLS NOT NAMED DUKE AND UNC NEED TO COMPLAIN IN THEIR PRESS CONFERENCES AND PUBLICLY QUESTION BOTH THE INTEGRITY OF THE OFFICIALS AND THE LEAGUE.
wow that was really bad.
you know the officiating is pretty bad when the blog for the N&O (a paper with an OBVIOUS and long-standing history of pro-UNC bias) criticizes the officiating of ACC refs in defense of Frank Haith with respect to a UNC - Miami game. The real message the N&O/Ram’s Club Cheerleader rag is sending?
“Don’t be so damned obvious we boys in blue paid you fellers off. Everybody else is catching a whiff of the fix. Save the preferential treatment for those close games…”
Between this and the Clemson-Duke game it would be impossible for the N&O to ignore the issue completely.
Now the ACC head office is a different issue…
“but the continuation shows him taking the guy down with his forearm. ”
Fair enough shell. I think a blocked shot thats clean, followed by contact with the arms (as opposed to the torso) are often let go, but your point is valid.
I will say, if wuffies can watch Tyler with somewhat unbiased eyes (after Sat of course), you’ll observe that he takes an absolute beating inside. Yeah, he gets away with some pushing and the occasional walk, but he gets it back in spades.
… I’m a big State fan for over 30 years, but I respect Carolina B-Ball and what Coach K has achievedv at Duke. Coach K took on Dean and Jimmy V was getting the best of him. By the time V left and Dean retire Coach K was the man. I believe Sidney will get us back where we are competing for ACC Championships and with opportunities to get to the Final 4. I pull for the ACC and I admire the programs at Duke and UNC. Jealously is not a virtue.
You can leave the insults out and still make your point. See? — SFN
Speaking of coaches that were discussed during our coaching search…
Anyone see that Bob Knight gave Rick Barnes his note cards from New Mexico game where he surpassed Dean in appreciation for Barnes’s nice comments about Knight when he broke the record.
I guarantee no coach appreciates Knight passing Dean’s record more than Barnes.
I left your point in; I took out your gratuitous insults of the entire community.
You’re right about the F-words, but I don’t see them here.
It’s not personal.
– beowolf/SFN
I always love the inevitable person that chimes in with his frustration over folks complaining about the refs “again?!?” … as if hearing/seeing folks complain over and over again is worse than having to put up with piss-poor officiating over and over again.
Statefans is right. The Internet, and specifically youtube, is the ACC’s worst nightmare.
^and thank god for that. it really is gonna force the ACC to hold their refs more accountable. but unfortunatly for DaPacker he might have to hear some bitching and F-bombs in the process. sorry buddy. take one for the team.
All I can say to Frank Haith is…..WELCOME TO THE ACC!!
“If you ain’t wearin’ blue…you’re gonna get screwed!”
so much for the 1st amendment rights, I guess I have to be a yes boy and a whiner to get my comments printed. What is wrong with calling Fergie Opie or ronald mcdonald. Are we being a little sensitive. I forgot we live in the United States of the Offended.
The sad part is, that they had the audacity to eject Haith for calling them out on their incompetence. Whatever he did was far less objectionable than their own officiating. By all rights, the officiating crew should have ejected themselves.
I guess this will be “handled internally” as well. The bonus checks just keep on comin’….
The most annoying part is the UNC fans going crazy when blatantly bad calls are going on all around them.
DaPackster, if you can show me where in the First Amendment it gives you the right to speak freely on someone else’s private forum, I’ll gladly leave.
Grow up, seriously. Or buy your own site and call people whatever you want.
Hansbrough takes a beating???
Hansbrough forces contact by bulling into defenders every time he touches the ball. It is literally impossible to play defense against him because the refs don’t call offensive fouls on him when he is forcing contact with defenders standing straight up.
This recent rash of biased officiating might actually be a good thing. I know for a fact there were some “inquiries” about the officiating at the State-Duke game. Now with the even more blatant problems at Duke-Clemson and UNC-Miami, maybe things will come to a head and some action will be taken. Let’s hope…
PackGirl - that would be nice - but nothing will change until these refs are publicly called out - ala what Coach K did to Deano in the 80s.
The coaches and/or ADs are just going to have suck it up and pay the fine. Behind the scenes protests and escalations don’t work w/ ACC officials and Swofford. Public humiliation is the only way to get results.
I’m watching this Duke game and I can’t help but wonder - why have this sideline analysis….Doris whatever her name is is talking about Duke’s 1 and 1/2 defenders. When Singletary drives by Duke’s 1.5 defenders - she states that good offense is better than good D or something stupid like that. What she neglects to mention is that the half defender was responsible for Reynolds - and he had to chose to either stop the drive or defend Reynolds. He actually makes the right decision, picking up Reynolds - and in theory, allowing Singletary to run into more help D…Give up 2 vs. 3 - not a bad decision.
Haha just saw the best sign in the UVA Duke Game.
“Sportscenter is Next…
Unless Duke needs more time.”
Ain’t that the truth.
^^^LOL…they did need some more time, but unfortuantly they did not get it. Good job UVA.
Well duke did pretty much all they could on defense at the end. Singletary is just too good. How do you defend a guy who can still make a shot one handed on his ass with time running down… Great win UVA.
^^…in review of my previous statement that should be “fortunantly”.
UVa probably has the 2 best guards in the conference. They will cause troubles for folks in the tourney.
I hope this is not a bloodless revolution…
Duke wne the last 8 adn a 1/2 minutes of last nights game without a field goal and it took a miracle shot by Singletary to win it.
How can you beat a team when they do not have to score to win? The refs just keep giving them FTs.
Well it’s groundhog Day. Chapel Hill reports sunny conditions and that Roy Williams did see his shadow. This of course means six more weeks of basketball,
Raleigh-Durham is overcast so no reports in on when Coach’s Mike or Sid have come out of their burrows yet.
“I know for a fact there were some “inquiries” about the officiating at the State-Duke game.”
They probably came from Duke, because we shot more free throws than them for once.
Actually Rick - I thought that UVa was allowed to play very physical against Duke. They were doing lots of pushing and hanchecking too. I actually thought that the refs called it fairly evenly.
Duke lead 59 – 51 with 3:40 left in regulation. They took and made 2 foul shots in the remainder of regulation and ended up with 61 points. UVA was 6 for 6 in foul shots during the same period. In the overtime, Duke was 5 for 6 in foul shots and UVA was 3 for 4.
Total foul shots taken in the last 8:40 of the game that started with Duke holding an 8 point lead:
Duke – 8
UVA – 10.
I didn’t notice any egregious calls during this period.
I think between the blogs, the N&O, and signs during the game along with coaches complaining and getting T’s that some folks in the league office (while they would never admit it publically) may be starting to get the message. If they are not they are oblivious.
I will recant my statement as I have been proven wrong.
Bullshit everybody.
If you’ve been around long enough, you know the ACC league office allows a token 2 or 3 games per season like last night, where the officiating is actually very even handed. Hell, I’ve often wondered if Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t orchestrate the whole thing to toughen his team up and prepare them to face some adversity. Make no mistake, however, these occasions are FEW and FAR between.
Everyone in the league needs to realize that unless you’re wearing blue you might as well go ahead and grab your ankles and prepare for the worst. It’s been that way since the beginning of time and it isn’t going to change anytime soon.
To beat either of the blue bellies you have to be prepared to play well enough to beat 5 on 8. Because it’s going to happen as sure as the sun rises in the east.
I remember the game and I know I’m typing here a year later than the actual event but,
T H A T S T I L L S U C K S B I G T I M E ! ! !