Tag Archive | "Officiating"
Roy Williams suddenly concerned about fouls AFTER Hansbrough graduates
Oh my God. I am honestly SO FLABBERGASTED by this that I cannot even begin to compose this blog entry for fear that my head will explode. This will be one of the most disjointed blog posts you will ever read on SFN as I cannot think straight right now. Just keep going and [...]
Continue reading...Officials incorrectly hand Arizona win over Lipscomb
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
I look so forward to the day that NC State can garner the kind of home court officiating advantage that can literally displace time and space. Check out the following video of the ending of last night’s squeaker in Tucson, Arizona. When I watched the video at live speed and then in slow motion it is almost [...]
Continue reading...Tracy Smith Suspended for Arizona Game (Updated at 2:15pm)
Monday, December 21, 2009
Jesus. Right before one of our ‘defining’ games for the season. Obviously, Smith should have just called the refs a bunch of GD MutherF’ers right on the court during the game so that he could be afforded the same flexibility that Coach K and Gary Williams receive on a nightly basis. Link to Wolfpacker RALEIGH, N.C. – [...]
Continue reading...1989: ‘Worst Call in NCAA Tournament History’
Sunday, March 29, 2009
On the Sunday of the Elite Eight exactly TWENTY YEARS AGO — NC State should have been participating in the Wolfpack’s fourth Elite Eight of the previous seven years. I want some of you younger fans to step back and let that absorb for a moment. I want you to recognize the difference [...]
Continue reading...NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?
Continue reading...Welcome to the ACC, Virginia Tech (Part II)
Monday, March 16, 2009
One of our most viewed entries of the weekend was this vibrant entry welcoming our land grant bretheren of Virginia Tech into the Atlantic Coast Conference’s landscape. We therefore send you on a quick journey to VPI’s Gobbler Country Blog to witness the evolutionary experience of a fan into the real world. I [...]
Continue reading...ACCT Open Thread – Welcome to the ACC, Virginia Tech
Friday, March 13, 2009
N&O’s Joe Giglio: UNC finished the game with 21 attempts from the free-throw line (hitting 15), while VT finished 8 of 11. It’s not like VT took a ton of 3s and the totals were skewed by shot selection. UNC and VT each took 19 3s. And don’t confuse me here, I’m [...]
Continue reading...Your ‘how could they miss that’ of the day – Scheyer takes at least 14 steps
Sunday, March 1, 2009
We really couldn’t have asked for better timing. In the first game played after we ran this must-read/watch entry, Duke and Saturday’s ACC officiating crew gave us another one one for the ages. Unlike the video from last Sunday that counted 12 steps that did not result in a travel, it is impossible for me [...]
Continue reading...The Great Traveling Conversation, Part One
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I’ve been dying to get around to putting this on the blog for over a month now…and, I promise you that we will be focusing more and more and more on this in the future. This basketball season has finally seen attention being given to one of my biggest pet peeves in all of college [...]
Continue reading...Virginia Tech Gameday Thread
Sunday, February 8, 2009
For two programs on such dramatically opposite performance arcs, the head-to-head record is startling – the Pack has won 6 games in a row. For Hokie fans, it must be hard to imagine what your program might have accomplished if not for this strange losing streak. I’m sure Seth Greenburg (aka “Basketball Grobe”) [...]
Continue reading...A professional gambler’s view of the Tim Donaghy mess
Thursday, June 12, 2008
You know that we like to go just a little beyond the original story with links and insight that are a little deeper than the story itself. With that said, we ran across this blog entry that includes some links to the news stories if you have an interest in following them. There is a ton of [...]
Continue reading...Friday Basketball Bytes
Friday, March 28, 2008
=======> Congratulations to Sean Miller and Xavier! In just 4 years he has already taken Xavier to a place in the NCAA Tournament where his former boss at NC State couldn’t achieve in a decade. It’s kind of hard to blame the strength of Duke and Carolina for our failure to succeed in anything outside [...]
Continue reading...Duke Basketball Report Has To Shut Down Message Boards After NCAA Loss
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Duke Basketball Report had to shut down their message board after today’s loss against West Virginia. I am not sure if you guys ever had the misfortune of reading “Carolina Blue” back in the 80’s and 90’s, but DBR’s propaganda would make John Kilgo blush. We can’t wait read their post game recap from the [...]
Continue reading...Phantom Call Gives Duke Final Two Points
Saturday, March 1, 2008
As both replays in this entry indicate, there was the slightest bit of contact during the first part of Nelson’s drive that was obviously initiated by Nelson’s hook. No whistle blew at the time of the contact. The whistle didn’t blow (and a foul wasn’t called) until a part of the play where [...]
Continue reading...Clemson Sets NCAA Record for Futility, Officiating Takes the Spotlight (Updated 3:15 pm)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Preface – Poor Oliver Purnell. Now he knows how Rick Barnes felt. And, we just happen to have a great little reminder for him of how Frank Haith felt last year that you can see by clicking here. We are updating what was once the ‘open entry’ for Sunday with more fallout from Sunday’s Clemson-Carolina basketball [...]
Continue reading...Hess Holds Back on Roy
Friday, December 28, 2007
I fear the day that I am going to have to search our archives for the following quote from today’s Charlotte Observer in regards to the UNC-Nevada game last night. But, I just have a feeling and didn’t want to ignore this opportunity. Referees aren’t enforcing the NCAA’s “bench decorum” mandate designed to punish angry [...]
Continue reading...Cincinnati Cries Foul In Loss at N.C. State
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
RALEIGH — Cincinnati tried to turn up the defensive pressure on N.C. State and paid for it with a huge number of fouls, a whopping disparity at the free-throw line — and its fifth straight loss.Brandon Costner scored 20 points Sunday night, leading N.C. State to an 85-77 victory and helping the Wolfpack stretch its [...]
Continue reading...Bobby Knight Was Right; NBA Ref Busted for Fixing Games
Friday, July 20, 2007
Sometimes you can’t help but wonder how officials can be SO BAD…no matter what the sport. It was a few years ago that the NCAA’s all-time winningest basketball coach invited criticism and severely pissed off the NCAA when he commented about basketball officials and the probability that some of them fix games for various financial reasons. [...]
Continue reading...Rejoice! Larry Rose Retiring! (& More Zebra Talk)
Friday, April 27, 2007
In the middle of this past basketball season I asked my buddy if he had noticed that ACC fixture, Larry Rose, didn’t seem to be officiating as many games as he did in the past. (Don’t worry…nobody was complaining about the development) I knew that Rose was no longer allowed to officiate NC State games [...]
Continue reading...EXCLUSIVE: SFN Tommy Hunt Interview
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Jeff asked for it, so The Giant responds. On September 12, SFN interviewed ACC coordinator of football officials Tommy Hunt regarding ACC officiating, the NC State/Akron controversy, and other subjects. The transcript appears below: SFN: Thank you for meeting with us today, Mr. Hunt. Hunt: Eating? I ain’t eatin’ with you. It’s only 9 AM. Says here, this [...]
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