Blog: Officiating to dominate water coolers on Tuesday

**ChrisMWilliams** · 02-26-2013, 03:20 AM

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**Psyclone Brian** · 02-26-2013, 03:21 AM

**demoncore1031** · 02-26-2013, 03:39 AM

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since i only have one co-worker (who is not into sports), i decided to have a conversation with the water cooler itself. he agrees that the refs should be drawn & quartered! this water cooler is a pretty cool guy!!

**demoncore1031** · 02-26-2013, 03:58 AM

and yes i am picking my nose

**CapnCy** · 02-26-2013, 06:04 AM

Losses like this hurt because they'll be relived over and over today when folks in my office will want to come get my take on what happened. I don't mind sharing my take, but it gets old when the people asking aren't really fans. I may have to pull the "no comment-move on" thing for my own sanity today.

**ISUAlum2002** · 02-26-2013, 06:11 AM

And it looks like at least one thread about the officiating from last night has been deleted for some reason.....

**Cyclonepride** · 02-26-2013, 06:11 AM

My voice was gone and my throat was killing me, and with about five minutes left, I decided not to scream at the top of my lungs anymore. Until I did, over and over and over.

Just sad that a great game was decided by a really bad series of calls.

**CycloneErik** · 02-26-2013, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by demoncore1031

and yes i am picking my nose

As far as I can tell, that makes you qualified to be a referee.

**Cardinal2001** · 02-26-2013, 06:41 AM

Here I thought we might have a chance at a fairly called game, when I heard Higgins and Janssen weren't there.

Oh how wrong I was.

**ameshammer** · 02-26-2013, 06:46 AM

yep, the refs lost the game no more analysis needed. isu did everything right, didn't miss a shot, no turnovers, but were cheated by a bad call that obviously was a foul on Kansas

**binsfeldcyhawk2** · 02-26-2013, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneErik

As far as I can tell, that makes you qualified to be a referee.

Fail. If he missed his nose he'd be qualified to be a referee.

**CycloneErik** · 02-26-2013, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by binsfeldcyhawk2

Fail. If he missed his nose he'd be qualified to be a referee.

Touche.

If you were Georges Niang, I'd call a foul right now.

**binsfeldcyhawk2** · 02-26-2013, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneErik

Touche.

If you were Georges Niang, I'd call a foul right now.

Ha! Swallow the whistle and "let them play" and then call a foul on Niang. Horrible sequence.....

**CycloneErik** · 02-26-2013, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by binsfeldcyhawk2

Ha! Swallow the whistle and "let them play" and then call a foul on Niang. Horrible sequence.....

I think it's a common sense call. If a guy goes to the floor, he should know that's a foul. That's just how it works.

I feel much dumber after typing that one. Ouch.

**ChrisMWilliams** · 02-26-2013, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by ISUAlum2002

And it looks like at least one thread about the officiating from last night has been deleted for some reason.....

Not a conspiracy. Thread was deleted because the phone number of a ref got posted in it. That's 100 percent not appropriate. It was quoted like 20 or so times and I wasn't going to take the the time to clean every individual post up. Was a very long night and I figured there were plenty of refereeing threads forr you all already.