My daughter (09 UM grad) to this day never fails to tell me about Ben and what a great guy he is. She was also an athlete and says that she never met a better person than Ben during her tenure at Michigan. To have lost your father one year, and the ability to participate in the sport you love at the school you love the next year, had to be devastating for him. I am so glad to see he has rallied from horrific setbacks to become an example for everyone about perseverence and a dogged determination.
Joyce made a blatantly bad judgement call on a play that was at least in the ballpark of an immediate reaction. This call happened in a 15 second time frame where he apparently had an assistant ref who spoke another language and couldn't bring himself to tell the lead ref how incompetent he had made himself look. I have followed wrestling for twenty plus years and this was the single worst call I have ever witnessed. The referee showed a complete lack of credibility. It was almost as if his mind went blank and he erased what he had just seen in the previous 15 seconds. Justin Zeerip should have the loss expunged from his record and receive a written apology from both refs and the BIG.
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My daughter (09 UM grad) to this day never fails to tell me about Ben and what a great guy he is. She was also an athlete and says that she never met a better person than Ben during her tenure at Michigan. To have lost your father one year, and the ability to participate in the sport you love at the school you love the next year, had to be devastating for him. I am so glad to see he has rallied from horrific setbacks to become an example for everyone about perseverence and a dogged determination.
Joyce made a blatantly bad judgement call on a play that was at least in the ballpark of an immediate reaction. This call happened in a 15 second time frame where he apparently had an assistant ref who spoke another language and couldn't bring himself to tell the lead ref how incompetent he had made himself look. I have followed wrestling for twenty plus years and this was the single worst call I have ever witnessed. The referee showed a complete lack of credibility. It was almost as if his mind went blank and he erased what he had just seen in the previous 15 seconds. Justin Zeerip should have the loss expunged from his record and receive a written apology from both refs and the BIG.