glutton said:
SFCityBear said:
glutton said:
SFCityBear said:
stu said:
ClayK said:
There should be consequences -- and Cal should agree to call the game "no contest."
Cal scorers made a big mistake. Pac-12 officials refused to correct it. SU got screwed. IMHO the right thing to do would be for Knowlton and Fox to agree that SU won in regulation. I'm sure SU would concur. No re-do.
All true. What I would like to see is Knowlton call a meeting with Fox, the Cal Staff, and the Cal players, and come to agreement over how to handle this. One of the things that sports, even big time college sports is supposed to do is help to mold the character of the young men and women who play these contests, to teach sportsmanship. And in this case, Cal has to man up and accept that SU won the game and publicly announce that to SU, their coach and team. We don't play by the rules of Al Davis "Just win, baby". We are Cal, and we should be bigger than that. We will still have the memory, that it was our best game of the season, and we need to put this behind us and move on.
You're must be joking, @SFCityBear. A one-point mistake in the middle of the 2nd half shouldn't mean that the outcome of the game should be reversed. If that point had been counted correctly at the time, then the rest of the half may have played out completely differently, and we may still have ended up winning in overtime. SUU needs to accept the apology and get over it. If they knew that there was a mistake, then their coaches should have been more insistent AT THE TIME that the score be reviewed properly. Mistakes are made by officials all the time during games, just not usually simple scoring errors like this one.
No, I'm not joking. I try not to be a "woulda, shoulda, coulda" kind of guy. You sound like SUU is at fault here. I'm surprised you didn't say, "SUU should have played better, if they wanted to win this game." You are a Cal fan. I get it. That is terrific.
In this case, I'm a fan of amateur sports first, a fan of basketball second, and third, I'm a Cal fan.
Do you think the outcome of games should be reversed any time there's an acknowledged officiating mistake in a game that affects the score? It's ridiculous to assume that Cal would have lost the game if one additional point had been credited to SUU in the middle of the second half.
As to your question, that's a non-sequitur, irrelevant to the issue. The officials officiating a game work for the conference and are paid by the conference. The scorekeeper in this case worked for one team, Cal, either as a volunteer or a paid employee. If he was a paid employee, then Cal paid him to score this game. Can you see how this looks to the sports public generally?
As to what is ridiculous, who is assuming that Cal would have lost the game if one additional point was credited to SUU in the middle of the 2nd half? Isn't it equally ridiculous to assume that if the free throw was recorded, that Cal would have stepped up their game a bit to score another point to send the game into overtime, or score 2 or more points to win the game in regulation? It is only one point, and no matter when it happens, in the middle, the beginning, or the end of a game, it is up there on the arena scoreboard for all to see. In a game that later gets close, one measly free throw can affect one coach's defensive strategy and tactics, and the other coach's offensive strategy and tactics. And at the end of a tight game, it can affect the decisions that players themselves make on the floor. That Cal scorekeeper really screwed up.
What actually happened was a point was taken away from SUU, whose player skillfully and honestly scored a free throw during the game. The Cal scorekeeper either failed to notice the free throw had been made, or he decided to help Cal a wee bit, and not do his job faithfully and honestly by not recording the 1 point for SUU. In either case, Cal does not look good, and I feel the right thing to is acknowledge the mistake, and take some step or steps to mitigate it. The ball is in Cal's court, not SUU's. SUU is not responsible for anything here, Cal is.
SFCityBear
