Pollard Mobilizing The Po Po

by **MissouriValleyUnite** » January 29th, 2019, 9:54 pm

@NWIOren: Now a Valparaiso fan is being admonished by an official. Police are going into the stands. This is getting good. #MVCHoops

@aaron_hunter: Pollard?

@Valpo_Hoops: yep...

@BuckFradley: Pollard being Pollard

https://twitter.com/kyle321n/status/109 ... 67745?s=21
@kyle321n: I was ejected from a @ValpoBasketball game. A thread.

The officials were reviewing "who the ball went off of" when I yelled "Maybe you should review the foul you missed". The ref not at the table looked directly at me and I said "he knows you the call". That's when it began.

He pointed at me and called the VUPD over to the scorers table. They came up to me and asked my name, etc. Apparently I was being ejected. We stood there for a few seconds while getting confirmation and I was walked out of the arena.

@valpoathletics couldn't have been nicer to me about this as they said they were unsure why I was being asked to leave, they had heard my comment and it wasn't offensive or anything.

#ValpoPolice also couldn't have been nicer. The officer asked me to move to a different section

But @MVCsports needs to review thier officials. The previous two crews couldn't have been worse. And this crew is apparently so thin skinned that they couldn't deal with one fan yelling during a review time out.

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by **VU2014** » January 29th, 2019, 10:05 pm

I don't want to take away from MSU's win but has the MVC officials always been such a flaming pile of $%&#?

by **BCPanther** » January 29th, 2019, 11:18 pm

Same pool the Big 12 draws from and guys that go deep into the tournament ever year. Gerry Pollard is a very good official as are the other two you had tonight (Smith and Heimerman). They wouldn't get the games they get if coaches didn't want them there.

Now, some of the crews we get on Saturdays, especially this coming Saturday, are either young officials or guys that never quite made the big time. The crews we get during the week and on Sundays tend to have at least one, if not two or three, that get to the second weekend of the tournament.

by **musiccitybulldog** » January 30th, 2019, 6:02 am

What does "he knows you the call" mean? Sounds like more to the story?

by **BigMacAttack** » January 30th, 2019, 6:22 am

BCPanther wrote:Same pool the Big 12 draws from and guys that go deep into the tournament ever year. Gerry Pollard is a very good official as are the other two you had tonight (Smith and Heimerman). They wouldn't get the games they get if coaches didn't want them there.

Pollard has always been a well criticized official on this site and in the arenas he works. Heimerman was part of the Drake/UE crew last week that called 3 terrible moving screens in the 1st four plus minutes against UE.
I'm puzzled by the statement that the coaches have a say in the officials the league uses. Explanation?

by **ptownbraves** » January 30th, 2019, 6:24 am

musiccitybulldog wrote:What does "he knows you the call" mean? Sounds like more to the story?

The ref crew isn’t the moral crowd police. Even if he dropped an f-bomb or two, that’s up to Valpo to decide whether to address the situation or not.

by **ValleyFAN** » January 30th, 2019, 7:22 am

What foul was this genius Valpo fan complaining abou anyway? Two big ones I remember both went against Mo State. A bad call on Kreklow which sent Freeman to the line late, theb on replay review it obviously went off Freeman (even the annluncers were confient ) but they gave it to Valpo anyway. I watched the whole game and overall the crew did a nice job

by **BEARZ77** » January 30th, 2019, 8:15 am

Yeah, I can't see much ground for any officiating issues. Don't know about the incident in the stands, but that has no bearing on the game. Valpo was called for 18 fouls , MSU 17, but Valpo went to the line more ; it wasn't a game where either team was fouling at the end to catch up, so that aspect of the game looked pretty even. There's always calls that can go either way, and there's always a few calls officials just miss. I thought the above mentioned out of bounds call was pretty obvious on replay, but the officials thought there wasn't enough evidence to overturn. Gave Valpo another shot to put the game away, but they couldn't make a play and we had the last chance down 1 instead of 3 or 4. Cook made the play to win. Just the way the game breaks.

by **BCPanther** » January 30th, 2019, 10:25 am

BigMacAttack wrote:
BCPanther wrote:Same pool the Big 12 draws from and guys that go deep into the tournament ever year. Gerry Pollard is a very good official as are the other two you had tonight (Smith and Heimerman). They wouldn't get the games they get if coaches didn't want them there.

Pollard has always been a well criticized official on this site and in the arenas he works. Heimerman was part of the Drake/UE crew last week that called 3 terrible moving screens in the 1st four plus minutes against UE.
I'm puzzled by the statement that the coaches have a say in the officials the league uses. Explanation?

Coaches send evaluations to the league on all three officials after every game. If they didn't receive consistently good marks, they wouldn't be back. There's a reason that Pollard, Janssen, Higgins, Eades, etc do the Valley whenever the Big 12 hasn't scooped then up. They grade out very well.

by **davidfast** » January 30th, 2019, 10:46 am

VU2014 wrote:I don't want to take away from MSU's win but has the MVC officials always been such a flaming pile of $%&#?

I'd argue people who complain about officiating are piles of that