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Re: BU 2017 Season Thread III: Terriers falling (into the off season)
The TV thing has been brought up ad nauseum. I completely agree but it's never going to change. I actually posted it about 2 seconds after they "announced" the switch. It stinks. What is troublesome is that when LACROSSE runs overtime, they keep the game on that channel and don't even SHOW the hockey. They join the game halfway through. And, of course, women's basketball is way more important. You know, in some ways it was better in the old days when the broadcasts were syndicated and a "local" channel would pick it up. Because the reality is this: if you're going to show this on a "national" network, you have to understand that people in non-collegy hockey areas (which is most of the country) would RATHER watch tiddlywinks, so hockey will get pre-empted for almost ANYTHING. The same thing happens in golf, by the way. If a tournament goes into sudden death, CBS will show "60 Minutes" and then switch the golf to Golf Channel. So if you are recording it, good luck.
Secondly (and I can tell from the number of times you have posted that you most likely have not seen the back and forth banter on this), I also completely agree about the review. Completely ridiculous. (Sean won't agree) Humans make mistakes. If they missed the call, they missed the call. It had NO bearing on the goal. Let's say North Dakota had the puck in the zone WITHOUT IT COMING OUT for five minutes before they scored (not unreasonable if you watched the game tonight
). You're telling me that something that occurred FIVE MINUTES before the goal should have any effect? Next are we going to start keeping score of all the "mistakes" made by officials? And while we're at it, you're telling me that a grainy "long shot" from the other side of the rink with parallax preventing any actual view is "conclusive" evidence? I never saw a shot where they "synced" the two views. From what I saw the boards were blocking the feet of the left wing so there was no way to tell if he was in the zone ahead of the puck or not. How could you possibly tell from an END SHOT 200 feet away that they had to zoom in to even see if he was in ahead of the puck, which was all the way across the ice on the other wall?
Replay is ruining sports. It destroys the flow of the game, not to mention adding a ridiculous amount of time. Someone asked tonight "Why is it taking so long to review this?" You can go back and look at my response (as a former official) if you would like, but the point is they STILL don't always get it right after looking at it fifty times. So what exactly is the point? They don't go back and replay the game whenever a player makes a mistake. Why do they do it after a referee makes one? No wonder these guys are afraid to make calls. Big Brother is watching.
I agree about the North Dakota fans...I experienced similar sentiments at the Garden in 2015.
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Secondly (and I can tell from the number of times you have posted that you most likely have not seen the back and forth banter on this), I also completely agree about the review. Completely ridiculous. (Sean won't agree) Humans make mistakes. If they missed the call, they missed the call. It had NO bearing on the goal. Let's say North Dakota had the puck in the zone WITHOUT IT COMING OUT for five minutes before they scored (not unreasonable if you watched the game tonight
). You're telling me that something that occurred FIVE MINUTES before the goal should have any effect? Next are we going to start keeping score of all the "mistakes" made by officials? And while we're at it, you're telling me that a grainy "long shot" from the other side of the rink with parallax preventing any actual view is "conclusive" evidence? I never saw a shot where they "synced" the two views. From what I saw the boards were blocking the feet of the left wing so there was no way to tell if he was in the zone ahead of the puck or not. How could you possibly tell from an END SHOT 200 feet away that they had to zoom in to even see if he was in ahead of the puck, which was all the way across the ice on the other wall?Replay is ruining sports. It destroys the flow of the game, not to mention adding a ridiculous amount of time. Someone asked tonight "Why is it taking so long to review this?" You can go back and look at my response (as a former official) if you would like, but the point is they STILL don't always get it right after looking at it fifty times. So what exactly is the point? They don't go back and replay the game whenever a player makes a mistake. Why do they do it after a referee makes one? No wonder these guys are afraid to make calls. Big Brother is watching.
I agree about the North Dakota fans...I experienced similar sentiments at the Garden in 2015.
The problem with video review of offsides is that has gone far beyond what I believe was the intent: disallowing goals when an obvious uncalled offsides had a bearing on the goal. I'm all for dropping video review of offsides (or I was until I was informed I wasn't 
), but the earliest that can happen is after next season.
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