Was the FL-Houston game poorly officiated?

[stockhome]

I only got to listen on the radio. The announcers and commentators seemed to think there were a lot of bad calls.

I did not listen to the entire game, but I counted at least three bad calls go against Houston and maybe 5-6 go against FL. Maybe there were more. Again, this is according the the announcer and two commentators (because, of course, there is no visual on radio and I can't judge). They announced and analyzed a good game, so wondering about this.

Another thing. I think there were only a handful of fouls in the first half. Maybe only 4 shooting fouls. Is that right? And then, there were a bunch of fouls in the second half. That generally tells me inconsistency and poor ref tone. Like an umpire with an inconsistent strike zone.

Thoughts?

 

[odanny]

It was not great at all, but not terrible. What I noticed was the flurry of foul calls, 1st half, let them play, then 2nd half, lots of whistles.

What I really didn't like was the refs attempt to "balance" the calls, they nailed Florida for multiple fouls and then they did the same to Houston, 3 or 4 foul calls in a row on them.

I can't fault them too much, they made a lot of good calls too, my biggest aggravation was how long it took them to confirm a call when they went to the monitor.

 

[stockhome]

It was not great at all, but not terrible. What I noticed was the flurry of foul calls, 1st half, let them play, then 2nd half, lots of whistles.

What I really didn't like was the refs attempt to "balance" the calls, they nailed Florida for multiple fouls and then they did the same to Houston, 3 or 4 foul calls in a row on them.

Thanks.

All I can think of is Bill Walton berating refs when saying, "That's not a foul!"

 

[stockhome]

...my biggest aggravation was how long it took them to confirm a call when they went to the monitor.

I heard the announcers discuss how the monitor had to come from underneath and surfaced to the court or something. Those modified courts can be funny like that.

 

[rightwinger]

Fouls can be very subjective.
You can call a foul on or off the ball on every play
Best to let them bang it out.
No harm, no foul

 

[odanny]

I heard the announcers discuss how the monitor had to come from underneath and surfaced to the court or something. Those modified courts can be funny like that.

I didn't hear that, I realize they have to be careful but someone should be in their ear before they go to the monitor and say "it's pretty clear that #12 in white knocked the ball out of bounds", two of those calls were obvious that it should have taken less than 10 seconds to see it and confirm.

 

[stockhome]

I know this guy who took some kind of officiating class. It was for high school or low level college, and might have been some brief thing.

Anyway, someone apparently did some stats on fouls in NAIA or similar. They compiled fouls by skin color. They found that different skin color fouls were called more. For example, a colored guy fouling a white guy got called more than a white guy fouling another white guy. Same for a white guy fouling a colored....more calls.

The conclusion was that the contrast made it easier to see mixed race fouls.

 

[Blaster]

The poorest officiating was in the Florida vs Auburn game. Auburn got shafted by the officials.

 

[odanny]

The conclusion was that the contrast made it easier to see mixed race fouls

What about the black ref who called a foul on the white kid (Flagg) with the white coach against the team with the black coach and all the players were black?

We can surely read a lot of things into these calls, that is for sure.

 

[MarathonMike]

I'm just glad that a ref didn't decide the champion by making a bonehead call in the last minute of the game. It was funny when the refs called 3 fouls in 9 seconds on Houston to balance the calls.