TV Teddy Snowflakes Thread
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.
^In short, this dude can suck it.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^
February 20th, 2017 at 6:55 AM ^
Almost everything is a technical in basketball.
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:47 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^
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...
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:51 PM ^
When was the last time a conference or pro commissioner was fired, anyway?
February 19th, 2017 at 9:56 PM ^
I did some research on the google and all that came up was how Goodell could and should get fired. So I don't know if there has been one (granted I did a very weak search).
February 19th, 2017 at 11:49 PM ^
Big East Commissioner got canned after it got raided for teams.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:55 PM ^
Commissioner*, my apologies for terrible spelling
February 19th, 2017 at 10:02 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:16 PM ^
Or Mark Hollis. If either one of those two gets it I'm done with the Big Ten
February 19th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 9:49 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 9:57 PM ^
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:50 PM ^
We will get a win at Rutgers, then send our seniors out on a high note against Purdue.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:04 PM ^
If we do this, I think we're in no matter what happens against Northwestern and Nebraska. Unless we get beaten by double digits in the first round of the BTT or something like that.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:51 PM ^
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.
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!
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:57 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:30 PM ^
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?
February 19th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:03 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:12 PM ^
Want more snowflakes?
Check the front page of ESPN's college football section.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:44 PM ^
February 20th, 2017 at 5:48 PM ^
Nothing major, just a big ol' hype fluff article talking about Da'Shawn Hand being the next great Bama DL.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:16 PM ^
Michigan bench was ridiculous and shameful.
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:19 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:27 PM ^
February 19th, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^
Was he wearning Minnesota underwear?
February 19th, 2017 at 10:43 PM ^
Outdoor rodents ruled my weekend. First, my dog gets sprayed by a skunk last night and the Gophers beat my team tonight. Sucky weekend, looking forward to Monday.
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.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
Hell, maybe all three. Fuck that guy.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:38 PM ^
right in his stupid fucking throat.
What an asshole.
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.
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.
February 20th, 2017 at 7:48 AM ^
Maybe we can start a protest about Delany...........#notmycommish
February 20th, 2017 at 8:49 AM ^
February 20th, 2017 at 8:15 AM ^
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
February 20th, 2017 at 8:59 AM ^
Sorry, first ever forum post on here for me. Long time lurker, but fairly new poster haha. Care to educate me?
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
February 20th, 2017 at 9:15 AM ^
When I saw Rick Pitino in the stands I knew the refs would job us.
February 20th, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^