TV Teddy Snowflakes Thread

Submitted by Burt Macklin_FBI on

Well, that was rough. Teddy Valentine, notorious thunderdouche, completely controlled that game. Ticky tack fouls resulted in insurmountable foul trouble for a number of M players. It's just a bad look for the Big Ten to have officiating this poor seemingly everytime a team travels outside of their home court. Wow.

Obligitory "make your free throws and box out" wins the game observation here. You could very easily argue that we did not deserve to win this game, but what you can't argue is that we deserved to get a hell of a lot better officiating than we did. Image result for teddy valentine

^In short, this dude can suck it.

ST3

February 19th, 2017 at 10:06 PM ^

I did that same thing in a 3/4th grade game and got T'd up. I talked to the person in charge of the officiating after the game and she said she would have thrown me out of the game if I did that while she was officiating. (She refs high school games.) Refs don't like getting showed up. They should have a tougher skin and realize when they mess up and not double down by calling the tech. I stopped coaching after that season. It's just not worth it to invest so much time and energy in the kids and have some idiot ref take the game away from them because they felt "shown up." I tried to explain I walked AWAY FROM THE REF precisely for that reason because otherwise i would have yelled at the ref and that would be a poor example to the kids. Ridiculous that the refs hurt pride cost Michigan a win tonight.

sarto1g

February 19th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^

Besides the last four minutes of the first half, that was an exceptionally ugly and tedious game to watch. I'm not sure we made it more than two possession changes without a foul call in the whole second half. I'm still incredulous that Beilein got a foul called on him on the opposite end of the court. Overall not a good basketball game

L'Carpetron Do…

February 19th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^

In the middle of the 2nd half there was a stretch of about 6 back and forth possessions that resulted in tick-tack fouls.  That makes for a HORRIBLE game to watch. I thought to myself - great another game that will be a f***ing free throw shooting contest.  Big Ten should look at that and do evertyhing they can to avoid these kinds of games. Let it be decided on the court - not the foul line.

Didn't know Valentine was working the game. Then the tech happened and I said 'I wonder if Valentine is officiating the game'.  Sure enough...

Killer Khakis

February 19th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^

The  more I see the B1G landscape and what happens, the more I hate Jim Delany. When will he leave, and who's gonna replace him? I'm more curious as to who gets selected to be commishoner after Delany so we can prevent someone like that moron from having power over the conference again.  

Franz Schubert

February 19th, 2017 at 9:49 PM ^

Was fouled on his 3 to send it OT. Walton was run over after Minnesota inbounded and should of been called a charge.

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SDCran

February 19th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^

Robinson or Walton's fouls on 3-point shots earlier.

He was also fouled on the hoop to cut it to 1 15 seconds earlier.  At least according to the precedent set by the refs in this game.  You could see JB losing it on that one.

CarlosSpicyweiner21

February 19th, 2017 at 9:51 PM ^

I would argue the uncharacteristic missing of FT can be a result of the poor officiating. That stuff gets in your head and messes with your concentration. FT are all concentration. Leagues need to review officials and suspend them publicly. This puts them on notice and just maybe they won't be swayed by home crowds, bagmen or coaches.

Very odd game and it was as if these refs had never heard of verticality rule or lowering and leading with shoulder to create space is an offensive foul.

L'Carpetron Do…

February 19th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^

Fuck the Gophers and Pitinos and Big Ten road game officiating.  

I shouted out to myself at a few points in this game watching at home alone.

And that was a soft-ass technical foul.  HARBAUGH'S TECHNICAL FOUL WAS WORSE THAN THAT!

SDCran

February 19th, 2017 at 9:56 PM ^

I was at 13 completely terrible fouls whistled on Michigan when the bench got the technical.  (I didn't include that one since feet were moving and it was a  ~25% chance of that going against you).   It went to 14 when Walton got called for hitting the elbow on the 3 point shot a couple of possessions later.   14 of the 28 fouls were 100% wrong.

And that doesn't count anything on the offensive end of the floor.  Like DJ getting blatantly hacked on the possession immediately after the technical.

Worst homer job I have seen in a while.  

blahblahblahh

February 20th, 2017 at 12:18 AM ^

Not 1? Irvin plays better defense, grabs more rebounds, and acts as a primary ballhandler/distributor.

I totally agree Irvin has been doing a poor job shooting the ball, but let's not act like he's a complete scrub out there. He does a lot of things Duncan can't do. In fact Duncan's only advantage over Irvin might be shooting. Can he do anything else better than Irvin?

jmblue

February 19th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^

You know it's bad when the TV announcers (who go out of their way to praise the officials nine times out of ten) repeatedly say they have no idea where the foul was.

Duncan Robinson blocks a shot cleanly and gets called for his 4th personal, while Minnesota gets 3 FTs.

A Minnesota guy loses the ball out of bounds and somehow gets 2 FTs.

A Minnesota guy slips and falls and gets 2 FTs.

We get T'd up apparently because an assistant moved a little on the sideline (didn't even go on the court).  They get 2 FTs.

And that's just in a stretch of 5-6 minutes.

 

 

ST3

February 19th, 2017 at 10:19 PM ^

Teddy was bad, but the whole crew sucked. The game is just moving too fast for those guys. They are calling what they think is happening instead of what is actually happening.

UMForLife

February 19th, 2017 at 10:27 PM ^

No accountability from the refs. Nobody does anything. That is why I stopped watching NBA. So tired of refs walking around like they are the kings. OSU game and now this one. Nothing ever happens. How someone can be so bad at their job and continue to work is beyond me. Team played hard. Missed some FYs. But this should not have come to that. M should have won comfortably.

LandryHD

February 19th, 2017 at 10:45 PM ^

I'd like to see that fool do my job. He'd be fired the first week. I make really good money but I have to be spot on, near perfect with my job or I'm shit canned. Yet, tools like him make more than I do and can be a complete failure. The fucking weather man.... that's what he is.

CTSgoblue

February 19th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^

I usually don't wish ill on people, but I really hope Teddy V stubs his toe badly tonight when he gets home. Or his taxes get audited. Or he forgets to draft his fantasy football team and auto-drafts instead.

Hell, maybe all three. Fuck that guy.

4yearsofhoke

February 19th, 2017 at 11:40 PM ^

It's really weird in both FOOTBALL and BASKETBALL that the Big10 has such AWFUL officials. I've watched MAC crews do a much better job. Why doesn't the B1G just fire some poor performing refs and hire some MAC guys (or sunbelt etc...)??? 

It's not like college refs have tenure or are paid a ton. 

Year of Revenge II

February 20th, 2017 at 6:38 AM ^

No matter what I say, I am going to sound like I am talking about the UM/OSU football game. We should have done this..., we could have done that..., to win a game you have to do this..., it is really the same game comment in a different sport.

I am bitterly disappointed in the officiating.  Translated---the refs sucked, incompetence, home cookin, f those refs, they cost us the game because, in reality, they cost us the game.

I am still bitter, I will always be bitter. At least in basketball, we have another chance. At least it was not against our biggest basketball rivals, MSU or Indiana in the last game of the season to decide who gets into the tournament.  

We still have a shot, but a bad loss might just kill us.

Rufus X

February 20th, 2017 at 3:11 PM ^

Just generally, Snowflake means someone who is fragile and thinks their opinion is more valuable than everyone elses simply because it is theirs.  I.e. they have been told how unique and wonderful they are their whole lives that they can't handle being second guessed. Generally used to describe millennials.  I just didn't see what it had to do with Ted Valentine or the game last night.  

The term has been so overused of late in every context that perhaps I am oversensitive to it.  No worries