Pat Parks

Old retired basketball official,
Walleye fishing fanatic

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@TonyGrazz @espnW It is. Right along with every other professional and major college basketball league in the U.S. Officiating leadership and league keadership are to blame. It's not about playing by the rules any more.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@power_ties @RefObserver17 This "art" is encouraged in all organized basketball by league. Officials are instructed to apply rules as they see fit play-by-play judging if the rule infraction really impacted the play. Rules ARE NOT enforced as written in the rule book (as they should be).

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@power_ties @RefObserver17 Rightfully so. Making a scene on court with the officials isn't the answer, it's the league leadership that needs berated. Officials by in large are calling the game as instructed by the leagues coordinator of officials. It's called "the art of offiating".

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@RefObserver17 Unacceptable behavior on both parties. The league should expect, no demand, better from both.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@RefObserver17 No game is "hard" to officiate. The game is the game, call the rules as written. If the players can't/won't play by the rules then they sit. Games being too physical are the responsibility of the officials, call the contact/displacement!!! D1 officiating is a mess.

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@RefObserver17 Exactly. Why stop at 76 if expansion is good, let everyone in so there's no controversy of who gets in :). Major college sports are a leaderless mess of massive proportions currently.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@RefObserver17 Agreed. The issue for D1 basketball is that many officials see particular teams too many times during a season and potentially again in the tournament. There needs to be a concerted effort to grow the pool so officials don't work 5, 6, 7 days a week, it's "unhealthy" scheduling

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@RefObserver17 The crew really had it rolling in first half, worked a great half. Suspicious with the extreme no whistle length of time 1st half there was, "don't let that happen again" in the 2nd. The non-whistle earlier in plays let reviewable stuff escalate. Then the reviews were bruttal

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@walkeri141 @RefObserver17 We need a lot more of this officiating, by the "letter of the law". As the Point of Emphasis in the rule book did state: enforce the rules, enforcd the rules as written, etc. Versus the recent: Enforce the rules – Finding a balance between the art and science of officiating.

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@RefObserver17 The cylinder call should be called way more than we see, it would cleanup a lot of sloppy/physical defense. Would really help thd overall push to reduce physicality in the game. It's an illegal contact play seen allot.

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@RefObserver17 Should have never changed the rule to have coaches calling timeouts. Everything related to rule changes should towards making the officials job easier not harder. Have players only calling TO's again.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@RefObserver17 Complete flop on faking a hit to the face uncalled.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@RefObserver17 Horrible sequence to end the game by the crew.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@DaveShondell Or, call all of them and sit them down early and move to other players. It's the infamous "art" of officiating at it's finest.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@SethDavisHoops Horrible no call, happens a lot. Call the rule, like all rules should be called by the book. The game is not about fairness by rule any more, it's determined by the "art officiating" in today's game. The game is becoming more and more a sham for gambling.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@KGJoseph @RefObserver17 You are partially correct, the leadership is horrific. But that dynamic is helping create the shortage of officials that are in rotation to work games to provide fatigue (physical & mental) relief. Many officials today work WAY too many games to maintain sharpness.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@JRrews @RefObserver17 Huge shortage of officials at the D1 level. The current crop of officials are working WAY too many games day on day with no recovery time. Their physical and mental fatigue is ridiculous. There's not enough officials to "bench" the poor performers.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@itsAntWright The crew not a good game, but nothing new for college officiating overall. The phantom foul calls are pretty atrocious, on top of missed legit fouls. Fans are cheated out of clean games to determine outcomes.

[Pat Parks @PatIABoiler]

@Dahoopref @RefObserver17 No elephant or ant on violations they are all equal rules, he's in great position horrible miss, good enough vision angle to cover both calls