Around 3:05pm on Saturday afternoon – deep in the the second half of the ACC Tournament semi-final game that saw significant national criticism befall the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew who called 42 phenomenally inconsistent fouls – I got a couple of strange tweets come through our SFN Timeline. Someone had re-tweeted a tweet from […]
ACC Officiating
ACC to disband the ACC basketball tournament. Annual Duke/UNC third time around game announced.
They might as well make it official. That was beyond bias. It was outright crooked. Karl Hess got his revenge. If you don’t follow our twitter feed then you really need to check it out. SFN was ALL OVER many of the local and national media’s admittance of ACC officiating bias and incompetence today. Link […]
ACC Tournament Game 1 refs pay tribute to Karl Hess
I am not making this up. According to alert reporter J.P. Giglio, the three officials working the Maryland-Wake game have “KH” on their left shoes. Full story. Hess’ absence is not a form of punishment for the incident at the N.C. State-Florida State game on Feb. 18, Clougherty said, but the three officials who worked […]
Further proof of officiating deterioriation
The precipitous decline in college basketball officials’ ability to call the most basic violation in basketball – the travelling violation – is a topic we have discussed here for years. So, I couldn’t resist an entry this morning when I came across the video below that highlights both the utter incompetence of ACC (and college […]
NCSU is not alone in our disgust at the Duke/UNC double standard
Other people are beginning to tire of the obvious “kid glove” treatment Duke and UNC have been receiving by the ACC. It is a subject that has been discussed on our blog many, many times. In this article in the Augusta Free Press, Chris Graham makes many of the same observations we have made. […]
ACC’s so called ‘statement’ another slap in the face to NC State (10:10pm)
Why did they f***ing bother? In this statement the conference weasels its way into even more disdain from fans focusing on Karl Hess’ authority to remove Chris Corchiani and Tom Gugliotta, while completely ignoring his controversial judgement to do so. —————————————- Feb. 18, 2012 Statement from ACC Supervisor of Officials John Clougherty on the ejection […]
Hess Fiasco Update – Yow has contacted Swofford; ACC to issue statement tonight [7:39pm]
ESPN is featuring Karl Hess’ ejection of Googs and Corch across all of their networks during college basketball coverage tonight. Kudos to Andy Katz who criticized Hess at halftime of the Florida-Arkansas game for needing to have thicker skin and pointing out the margin in today’s game was an astounding 18 points at the time […]
Karl Hess tosses NC State legends out of the game [4:50 pm Update]
In another slap in the face to NC State, one of the “top” ACC officials decided to throw Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani out of the basketball game. Welcome to another example of how awful the Atlantic Coast Conference has become and little league officials value NC State and our heritage and history. Can you […]
Just Incase You Missed It: Officiating
There is a massive flurry of discussion on the boards and the blog against last night’s game against Duke. So ‘Pride, why are you writing yet another article about the game? Simple: because I found something that had been posted prior to last night’s game that was interesting. Ironically, it was sitting right under my […]
Head of ACC Officials Confirms UNC is a “team that doesn’t foul much”
Lack of Fouls Key for UNC “Historically, even looking back to when Dean Smith coached, UNC has just been a team that doesn’t foul that much,’’ said John Clougherty, the That is a statement from the head of the ACC officials not some UNC PR firm. Can someone explain to me how 4 coaches over […]
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