Did Hightower & Co. cheat us out of Cartwright's heave?

tweeterhawk

tweeterhawk

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On the following video, carefully review the position of the ball and the lights on the backboard at :15 and :16. The ball is clearly out of Bryce's hands before the lights on the rear backboard go on.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfTKbwY59Fk]YouTube - Cartwright & Iowa get hosed by Hightower, Again[/ame]

Unless there is a malfunction, the lights should be the determining factor. They were added to the game to help officials get the call RIGHT when there is a successful shot close to expiration of the clock.

Iowa should have come out of the locker room at halftime with the same 11-point advantage they had going in.

Ed Hightower needs to retire.
 
tweeterhawk said:
On the following video, carefully review the position of the ball and the lights on the backboard at :15 and :16. The ball is clearly out of Bryce's hands before the lights on the rear backboard go on.

YouTube - Cartwright & Iowa get hosed by Hightower, Again

Unless there is a malfunction, the lights should be the determining factor. They were added to the game to help officials get the call RIGHT when there is a successful shot close to expiration of the clock.

Iowa should have come out of the locker room at halftime with the same 11-point advantage they had going in.

Ed Hightower needs to retire.
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Interesting footage and is a shame. Lost in this as well is from what I could tell the clock operator started the clock right as it was inbounded but no one touches it til Gatens and the Michigan guy scramble for it. You can't tell on this video obviously, but it appeared that way on the regular footage of the game.
 
We blew an 8 point lead in the 2nd half. We failed to execute offensively and defensively in the last minuite of the game. Hightower was the least of our problems. I also think they got it right.
 
Can't wait to hear what Spank thinks about this.

To the naked eye I thought it was good but they never showed a replay on the telecast.

**after watching the video, it was pretty clear to me it should have counted.
 
Hightower has done mainly Big East games this year,until this Michigan game,like he was told to move on by the Big Ten or something,but he had to come back and get his annual screwing of the Hawks in before the year is over. Then last nite he was doing the PU-IU game,and made a home town call on a loose ball scramble where he gave the hometown IU team the timeout,when it clearly should have been a jump ball....playing to the home crowd all the way....so evidently the Big Ten might have just quietly ''suspended'' Eddie for most of the season but now has let him back in....why?????
 
JHHawk said:
Hightower has done mainly Big East games this year,until this Michigan game,like he was told to move on by the Big Ten or something,but he had to come back and get his annual screwing of the Hawks in before the year is over. Then last nite he was doing the PU-IU game,and made a home town call on a loose ball scramble where he gave the hometown IU team the timeout,when it clearly should have been a jump ball....playing to the home crowd all the way....so evidently the Big Ten might have just quietly ''suspended'' Eddie for most of the season but now has let him back in....why?????
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Eddie's schedule is probably set 2-3 years in advance.
 
DuffMan said:
We blew an 8 point lead in the 2nd half. We failed to execute offensively and defensively in the last minuite of the game. Hightower was the least of our problems. I also think they got it right.
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Duffman FTW. Complaining about the officials is the lamest thing you can do. Over 40 minutes, the best team always wins.
 
Each conference has a person or comitte that assigns games usually with the help of scheduling software. Refs list dates they are "open" and "block" dates that are not in this software, and schedulers look through and ask for guys based on thier availibility.

While team schedules aren't finalized and published until the summer before in most cases a teams conference schedule is set at least a few years in advance. When you are dealing with guys who literally travel thousands of miles a week to work multiple basketball games that's really the only way it can work.

For what it's worth the fact that Eddie works a heavy schedule in multiple conferences is a good indicator that he's MORE respected among assigners. The fact that he's worked several Big East games should not be seen as a negative at all.
 
Weren't there times when Jim Bain did three games on the same day ? After his famous call at Purdue he flew out to do another game.
 
masoncityhawkeye said:
Can't wait to hear what Spank thinks about this.

To the naked eye I thought it was good but they never showed a replay on the telecast.

**after watching the video, it was pretty clear to me it should have counted.
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We talked about it on here over the weekend, but my thoughts were it was very, very close. I would have approached it with the idea that if I couldn't tell without a shadow of a doubt he didn't get it off, then I would have counted it (sort of the NFL review process thought).

After Hightower reviewed it (a multi-minute process), he deemed it no good because the horn sounded when it was on the tip of his fingertips. Yes, that's the ruling. Do with that as you will.
 
storminspank said:
We talked about it on here over the weekend, but my thoughts were it was very, very close. I would have approached it with the idea that if I couldn't tell without a shadow of a doubt he didn't get it off, then I would have counted it (sort of the NFL review process thought).

After Hightower reviewed it (a multi-minute process), he deemed it no good because the horn sounded when it was on the tip of his fingertips. Yes, that's the ruling. Do with that as you will.
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If he was basing it on the horn, then it may be that the horn and lights at CHA are not properly sync'd. If you stop the slow-mo replay on that clip at the :16 mark, the ball is clearly out of Bryce's hands -- you can see a CHA railing between the ball and his hands, and his stance shows he is finishing the shot -- but the lights have not gone off on the back basket.
 
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