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tOSU 50, Purdue 75 (Final)

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BucyrusBuckeye;1420335; said:
So who is ref ing the game tomorrow ?
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I saw Hightower reffing the Texas vs. Baylor game last night.
Who would have thought that after Saturday night he would travel 1500 miles for his next game. Unlikely that he could make it back to Iowa for tinight's contest . . . or is it?
Many negative comments about his antics on ESPiN.
Especially hilarious was the broken whistle timeout.
He is obvoiusly getting a reputation for being a a candidate for upstaging the game as described well in this article from an MSU site which also calls for officiating oversight by the conference:

http://hoopraker.com/2009/02/24/zebras-on-cialis-redux/#more-853


This season we?ve been impaled by the presence of referees perhaps more than any season in recent memory. That?s not a good thing. Ideally, players, coaches and fans prefer not knowing the referees are even on the court. Too often the referees who frequent Big Ten arenas take center stage, showing up players and coaches alike. The erstwhile Ed Hightower, Ted Valentine and J.D. Collins, whose gesticulations and agendas have been long-endured (particularly by fans of Wisconsin and Michigan State), are emblematic of a workaholic officiating corps that is long overdue for true Conference oversight and overhaul.
Zebras on Cialis
Luxuriating in anticipation of high-quality tournament basketball, there is much for the college basketball fan to be sanguine about these days of late February. There is, however, one governor to the optimism. It is the continued dread of more displays of incompetence from the NCAA?s long-toothed, physically infirm, grossly overextended officiating corps.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
Surely the intrinsic imperfection of a three-man officiating crew is understood, even well tolerated in these precincts. But as anyone who has watched more than a few live basketball games in the last decade is aware, the issue isn?t the reasonable and natural fallibility of human beings trying to proctor a game that often proceeds at light speed. The problem is an NCAA-wide system of poor oversight that is giving us officials who are overworked into incompetence, and in more than a few individual cases, are physically unbecoming of the job.
Free Roaming Zebras
One layer of the problem is that today?s officials are independent contractors who are beholden not to individual conferences but are free to work in multiple leagues and as often as they see fit. The result is referees who are exceeding their natural capacities in pursuit of more money.
In a diatribe the spirit of which won him more than a few public reprimands by the Big 12 commissioner last season, Bob Knight got to the shank of the matter:
To have some guy 54 or 55 years old referee six times a week is a real disservice to the kids who are playing. But these guys are so greedy, they end up trying to work these six games a week. And they?re not capable of doing that. Check schedules and you?ll rarely see where kids play three games a week. These kids are 19, 20 and 21 years old.
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gracelhink;1420774; said:
I saw Hightower reffing the Texas vs. Baylor game last night.
Who would have thought that after Saturday night he would travel 1500 miles for his next game. Unlikely that he could make it back to Iowa for tinight's contest . . . or is it?
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If I'm not mistaken, I think I also saw Hightower doing the MSU v. Illinois game the other day. . . .
 
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Buckeye Nut;1420756; said:
So basically you're saying given the choice to keep playing hard or give up they gave up. Doesn't matter to me, you still have to keep fighting and keep playing hard no matter how the game is being officiated. Using the refs as an excuse to not give 100% effort because you think you might get called for a foul is inexcusable. Maybe there was little chance to win the game the way it was officiated, but the only way to come back is to keep playing hard and hope some calls start to go your way. Giving in should never be an option because there is no possibility of success or progress by making that choice. This team has to start becoming more mentally tough, bad calls are going to happen and you have to learn to deal with it.
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Put it like this...the team would have lost with good officiating and nobody argues that. Nobody in this thread came remotely close to blaming the loss on the refs. The team isn't mentally tough, I agree. However, bad calls happen but I have never seen so many bad calls go against one team and not the other. They didn't go both ways. If I didn't know any better, I would think Hightower was out to try and piss Ohio off. Seriously, this was THE worst officiated game I have ever seen. This is not a typical "oh we got a couple bad calls" night. I agree you don't throw in the towel, but you play a little different when you have 2 fouls in the first 10 minutes, no? Or 3 or 4 fouls midway in the second half? Or are you playing at all? You can't honestly say you can play your normal game when you're in foul trouble. The reason we got "blown out" was not because of the team, it was because of Hightower's shannigans. The reason we "lost" was because of the team's effort and poor play. I'm personally pissed at both and I think everyone else feels that way.
 
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RB07OSU;1420802; said:
Put it like this...the team would have lost with good officiating and nobody argues that. Nobody in this thread came remotely close to blaming the loss on the refs. The team isn't mentally tough, I agree. However, bad calls happen but I have never seen so many bad calls go against one team and not the other. They didn't go both ways. If I didn't know any better, I would think Hightower was out to try and [censored] Ohio off. Seriously, this was THE worst officiated game I have ever seen. This is not a typical "oh we got a couple bad calls" night. I agree you don't throw in the towel, but you play a little different when you have 2 fouls in the first 10 minutes, no? Or 3 or 4 fouls midway in the second half? Or are you playing at all? You can't honestly say you can play your normal game when you're in foul trouble. The reason we got "blown out" was not because of the team, it was because of Hightower's shannigans. The reason we "lost" was because of the team's effort and poor play. I'm personally [censored]ed at both and I think everyone else feels that way.
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The reason we got blown out was our fault quit blaming the refs, it's pathetic. This team got back in the game at the end of the 1st and beginning of 2nd half and was only down two. Wow, I guess it was possible to get back in the game despite the foul trouble when you give effort. We should be used to Dallas and B.J. being in trouble correct calls or not since they are every game anyway. But then Purdue went on a 8-0 run with a free throw on a legitimate foul call, then nobody got back on defense and gave up a layup, followed by Buford throwig the ball out of bounds to nobody, another layup and finally a three. Just like that we're back down by 10 all of it our fault for a lack of focus and hustle for the most part. We took ourselves right out of that game. Sorry I'm a no excuses person and I won't accept deflecting any blame away from the team because it's a cop out. We gave a 20 point loss effort and that's what we got.
 
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sepia5;1420797; said:
If I'm not mistaken, I think I also saw Hightower doing the MSU v. Illinois game the other day. . . .
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He probably was doing another game in another city at the same time. I thought that these guys have other jobs but the number of games that Ed officiates he could not work another job. I thought during the Ohio State/Purdue game that Matta should have gotten himself tossed. It would not have made a difference in the outcome of the game and might have brought more attention regionally to how bad Hightower has become. I know that he was not the one who called the technical on TM but he certainly was part of the problem.
 
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Buckeye Nut;1420840; said:
The reason we got blown out was our fault quit blaming the refs, it's pathetic. This team got back in the game at the end of the 1st and beginning of 2nd half and was only down two. Wow, I guess it was possible to get back in the game despite the foul trouble when you give effort. We should be used to Dallas and B.J. being in trouble correct calls or not since they are every game anyway. But then Purdue went on a 8-0 run with a free throw on a legitimate foul call, then nobody got back on defense and gave up a layup, followed by Buford throwig the ball out of bounds to nobody, another layup and finally a three. Just like that we're back down by 10 all of it our fault for a lack of focus and hustle for the most part. We took ourselves right out of that game. Sorry I'm a no excuses person and I won't accept deflecting any blame away from the team because it's a cop out. We gave a 20 point loss effort and that's what we got.
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It isn't pathetic, it's obvious...so you're a no excuses person, good for you. You refuse to listen to reason in other words. If the calls weren't so one sided, we wouldn't have lost by that much, plain and simple. If a ref wants to dictate play, he can, and he did. To be honest, I don't recall Mullens ever being in serious foul trouble this year. How about Turner? Has he ever been in serious foul trouble? He is easily the heart and soul of our team and having him in foul trouble KILLED us. How about the whole team? Has nearly the entire team ever been in foul trouble all night? You can't say that is to be expected. I will give you that at the beginning we weren't focused and we could have gave better efforts at some points. Again, we deserved to lose the game with our play, especially with Buford's mistakes (his head was somewhere else). However, to say the refs didn't play a big part in the blow out is absurd. I say we lose the game by 8-12 points if the game is officiated decently, meaning calls go both ways. Every blow of the whistle was more deflation from the team's moral.
 
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gracelhink;1422602; said:
Also the Minnesota v. Wisky game last night.
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That's 5 straight days I've seen him on TV.

Sat - at tOSU
Sun - at Illinois
Mon - the Texas game
Tue - at Iowa
Wed - at Minny

He's getting some frequent flyer miles.
 
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BB73;1422607; said:
That's 5 straight days I've seen him on TV.

Sat - at tOSU
Sun - at Illinois
Mon - the Texas game
Tue - at Iowa
Wed - at Minny

He's getting some frequent flyer miles.
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I wonder if he would have time to fit in a preschool game one of these days. I guess old Ed must be retired because it used to be that most officials had second:lol: jobs. Maybe Ed got laid off for doing too much pointing at work.
 
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BB73;1422607; said:
That's 5 straight days I've seen him on TV.

Sat - at tOSU
Sun - at Illinois
Mon - the Texas game
Tue - at Iowa
Wed - at Minny

He's getting some frequent flyer miles.
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Good catch on the frequent flyer mile!
According to this site, he has in '08-'09 matched his career record for officiating in 22 different states.

Ed Hightower - College Basketball Referee

Looking strong in '08-'09 (72 games to date) to match his career mark of 84 games officiated in the '99-'00 season.
He is a visiting team's nightmare for officiating as noted in the deviation of fouls called and the home team vs. visitor's scoring average.
 
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