BreakinBison
Sophomore
Posts: 146
Reg: 01-23-06
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02-20-06 12:17 PM - Post#16017
I've seen a couple of posts over on panther nation indicating the ref. crew was a "Patriot League" crew.
To my knowledge the Patriot League does NOT have its own set of referees a la the Big 10, SEC, Big East, etc.
Instead we share a series of refs who cover games throughout the Northeast including A-10, Big East, Ivy League, MAAC, etc.
In addition, I don't recall ever seeing any of those ref.'s before the UNI/BU game (not sure if someone can check the statistics on that).
There were bad calls on both sides of the ball and BU gave the game to UNI; however, I just wanted to comment on a couple of posts that indicated the ref's were bad "because they were Patriot League refs."
Trust me, we get our above average share of bad referees throughout the season; however, I believe to suggest the poor calls were being made to favor one team over the other because the ref's belonged to the Patriot League is incorrect.
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BUFan
PhD Student
Posts: 1936
Reg: 01-24-06
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Re: Patriot League Refs.
02-20-06 01:08 PM - Post#16018
In response to BreakinBison
I don't recall seeing any of them either, but on ESPN, they said it was a Patriot League crew.
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LU06
Freshman
Posts: 16
Reg: 01-25-06
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Re: Patriot League Refs.
02-20-06 02:26 PM - Post#16019
In response to BUFan
I watched the game and heard the PL refs comment as well. I know for a fact that one referee (the white guy) has done some Lehigh games in the past, so he is a ref that does PL games. As mentioned above, i don't believe there is a group that are PL refs, just local refs that tend to get the call more often than others.
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BUFan
PhD Student
Posts: 1936
Reg: 01-24-06
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Re: Patriot League Refs.
02-20-06 04:22 PM - Post#16020
In response to LU06
The most shocking thing if they were PL refs is how few fouls were called. Most PL refs are completely whistle-happy!
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