OT-Yelling at Ref Works
I read this at Five Thirty Eight and I thought it is of interest to this board since our coach is famous for his sideline antics.
Statistics show that refs are more likely to call judgement calls when near the opposing team's sideline. They do serve purpose...
January 16th, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
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January 17th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
This works well for Izzo. The conference has supposedly been calling games tighter for years. This doesn't apply to Izzo's teams. All of the refs are afraid of him. It gets worse when they are at home.
January 16th, 2017 at 7:12 PM ^
January 16th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
When the cameras cut to him before he started to take off his jacket, I not only thought but said out loud "take off your jacket for this". I guess he was on the same page as me.
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January 16th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
January 16th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Meyer yelled and got a call. Harbaugh yelled and got called.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
You're right. Meyer did get a call. It was from Delaney and the head of the Big Ten refs telling him they were about to royally fuck Michigan in the ass just so OSU can win again.
January 16th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
So Izzo doesn't just do this because he's a tiny angry douche bag? Good to know...
January 16th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
Izzo didn't read the article, so yes, he does do it because he's a tiny angry douche bag.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
But the REAL question is, what do the statistics show that a guy has got to do to get a butt slap?
January 16th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 3:13 PM ^
This was the problem. 1 or 2 subconscious calls that have some effect on the game is the 3 point home field advantage (combined with crowd noise). 5-7 conscious choices to make or not make a call in one teams favor is cheating.
January 16th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
There has got to be a happy medium between Harbaugh throwing stuff and Jim Caldwell just standing stoically. I love Harbaugh but I'm worried that he is starting to get the Rasheed Wallace treatment where if someone else did what he gets penalized for it wouldn't be a big deal. I mean he's already getting techincals.
January 16th, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
You nailed it, 100% correct. Yelling at grown men (refs) who have screwed over your players is always better than yelling at your players, even if they earned it.
The people I manage respond better when praise is public and critique is done behind closed doors. Harbaugh gets this; "You mad bro" above does not.
Don Brown also gets this with a recent quote I read from him: "critique the performance, not the performer".
We have the best football coaches.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
People have it so wrong when they say Harbaugh is intense. He is only intense when he needs to be: on the football field. Otherwise he is a very smart, cool, and reasonable man. People who immediately describe him personally as intense, they haven't seen enough of him to get it. Intense coach (within reason), but not a intense person.
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January 16th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
Please don't patronize me. Of course other coaches cuss out refs. I'm not sure what I've said makes you think I'm unaware of this.
January 16th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
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between throwing clipboards and/or playsheets and getting the calls - (unless they are on you)
January 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^
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January 16th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
January 16th, 2017 at 4:43 PM ^
Gene Smith was willing to play ball with the Friday Night Lights approach to B1G football games. In exchange, three refs from the state of Ohio; one fired for incompetence over a decade earlier; one barred from reffing 2006 The Game for conflict of interest reasons; and one ref in the Ohio High School Referees Hall of Fame.
You scratch my back, we'll scratch yours.
January 16th, 2017 at 7:14 PM ^
Ref Works sucks. Zotero 4 lyfe.