Feb
2008
It was nice while it lasted I guess….
In a game officiated to the delight of perhaps only Ted Valentine, Tennessee lost to the Commodores and the referees on Tuesday night. Awesome.
First off, let me say that Vandy, for being the “Harvard of the South” has some of the most classless fans ever, and you know, ugly cheerleaders to boot.
Seriously though, just in case you guys didn’t get the memo, here’s the officiating rundown for the game.
1. First off, we’ve got Tennessee. Whenever they do anything… like say, pointing? That’s a foul.Yep, if they’re wearing any kind of orange, and do anything to even get CLOSE to anyone wearing a white jersey, go ahead and blow your whistle. In fact, when orange has the ball, just breathe through your whistle. It’ll just be easier, mmkay?
2. Next up, we’ve got Vandy’s side of the ref’s manual. If white does anything to orange, see if there is any way to foul orange. If it looks too too TOO bad, go ahead and don’t call anything. I know, it might seem weird, especially if people are being tackled to the ground, but still, trust me, it’s better to not blow any whistles, because you want to save the ‘ole cork ball for orange (see point 1)
Kevin Stallings said during his post-game interview…
We’re not much into gloating, we like to do it with class…
Um, I suppose you don’t speak for your fans in any way nor yourself as you do the bow to the student section? Ass.
Am I being a sore loser? Hell yeah, because we lost to the shittiest fans and some of the worst officiating I’ve seen this year. Crap, I think Tennessee just got T’ed up for me making that comment.
I suppose the good that came of it, the last 2 times the #1 team was beaten by Vanderbilt, the teams made it either to the Final Four (Kentucky), or the National Championship (Florida).
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Worst officiated game i’ve ever seen…LET THE BOYS PLAY FOR GOD’S SAKE!!! I agree with your assessment of the game. Let’s just hope we can keep the focus and poise and beat Florida and Kentucky….
Tough odds on back-to-back games like these. Ditto on the officiating, but missed free throws and bad ball control hurt more. Still #1 for a few more days, and will still be when they come back to K-town Sunday. I’ll be there with pride. Matt said it. Focus and poise will get us through March. Vandy won’t be in that ass-backwards layout of a home court for the tourney so expect them to get back on the bus after round 1.
The officiating was bad but the commentating might have been worse. There were many “fouls” called on UT and the dumbasses didnt even stop there conversation about Vince gill? wtf theres a #1 #14 game being played. Also did you catch the last play when Vandy almost threw it out of bounds, and the fresman saved it by inches. A genius said ” good thing the court is 94 feet and not 95 feet”. I guess cause if it were longer it would have gone out of bounds. Effen A Jon, Effen A
first i’ll cut and paste my comment from last night:
OK it’s halftime of the Vandy game. UT went on a nice run at the end of the half, so I want to post this before the end of the game so if UT loses it doesn’t look like sour grapes.
Vanderbilt has the worst fans I’ve ever seen. Alums should be embarrassed.
-Expletives clearly audible on the broadcast.
-Students seeing the camera is on them and flipping the bird.
-Some 40 year old guy wagging his finger in Tyler Smith’s face after he hustled for a loose ball.
I remember some UT fans getting on the students earlier this year for profanity…I don’t see how anybody could take their kid to the game tonight.
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I don’t think the game was officiated so much poorly as it was called “close.” Either way, with UT’s aggressive style, it hurt UT. Nobody can watch that tape and gameplan a way to beat the Vols without close officiating.
Ball control was frustrating too. I didn’t understand why the Vols insisted on driving almost uncontrolled into the lane and trying to dish it off to a covered guy at the last second. Also, lot of arguing on the radio today about whether they were tired, but about midway through the 2nd half when I saw Lofton could barely run the court, I thought they were clearly without their legs.
I also agree about the commentators; I thought I was going to have to mute the TV.
It wasn’t so much the officiating as it was the poor shooting. UT couldn’t get the ball inside against Vandy. Being that they had a short turnaround and Vandy had an entire week to prepare, the Vols still had a chance to win.
Just a bump in the road.
Good point, Moondog: It’s hard to blame the officials when the home team has only 5 more attempts at the line than the visiting team (37 vs. 32)
You saw the overhead view of Neltner getting hammered on the way to the basket during that “block,” right? The officials evened things out.
Balance that “short turnaround” and “entire week to prepare” with the fact that Vandy’s second leading scorer was riding pine for 85% of the second half, and they still won the game.
BTW, teams are going to watch that tape of Vandy bringing the big man down as an outlet to break the press as well.
Cheers, and stay healthy against UK…but don’t win the game by any means!
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