QA with ref Melissa Barlow

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Article from the Statesman

so i guess it's a rule that they can't have a do-over after correcting an error....but i still think that's crap!! l don't understand how it's fair to take the 2 points away, but not go back and give Texas the possession that they deserved after being fouled. that was effectively a lost possession.

and yes, Texas was struggling at this point and clearly not playing their best game against the aggies (yet again). but when it's a 7 point game with 3 minutes to play, it's still a winnable game...and every possession counts. so it's a little irritating to lose 2 points, lose the possession, and have to stand around for 14 minutes while the refs figure it out on that stupid miniature TV playback screen they have.
 
Well, Coach G had a pretty animated "press conference" right at the scorer's table...
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And as far as M. Barlow goes....all I can say is BOO!!!!!!!!!!
 
While the "officiating" crew was clearly inept in the way they handled the foul discrepancy, one cannot disregard the equally aggregious error by the "official" aggy scorekeeper. How difficult is it to count from one to seven? In addition, it took Billy (a grown man named Billy? only an aggy), the official scorekeeper, several minutes to recount the number of fouls and find his error.
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Aggy consistently reaffirms their incompetence. At least Texas scorekeeping officials have mastered rudimentary math skills.
 
In a correctable error situation, the scorekeeper should have realized his mistake immediately thus giving Texas no shots and the ball. However he did not. Once the ball is put into play , the call should stand.
As it was, why did the UT scorer not raise hell about the foul discrepancy. It is the home team's responsibility to keep the official score, but a protest would have solved that problem before it happened.
 
I guess that evens things out then. I am assuming that UT knew and thought they would benefit from the mistake. However, when it was caught they got screwed.

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That's the thing about "assuming"......makes an *** out of you...

Let's not speculate about things that are not known.....we just don't have the real low-down, folks.



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No, NOTHING "evened out". Texas got 2 points or possession of the ball arbitrarily taken away from them by a brain-dead official and an Ag who can't count to 7.

A&M commits a foul and is rewarded by the refs enforcing an automatic turnover on the other team to remove a key possession in crunch time. There was no corresponding officials' error to balance this out.
 
I've never heard of anything like that one.
With five minutes left in the game, the refs discover they made a mistake back in the first half? Then talk about it for 14 minutes, then remove 2 points from the Lady Longhorns score, and go on about their merry way?
At some point, a mistake has to remain a mistake. I could see if there were a TO called right after the free throws and someone protested the situation, then that might be the fair and correct thing to have done, but not after most of the entire second half had been played. That's just BS.
There are always mistakes in officiating. They don't stop games and say, oh yeah, we made a mistake back in 1962, and we are taking some points away from you at this well-chosen time.
Wow.
 
Remember in football if they run the next play, e.g., kick the extra point before the coach has time to challenge a touchdown, then you can't go back and 'undo' the touchdown - even if on the 'jumbotron' you can clearly see the touchdown was not scored. Thus, it seems to me if the next 'play' has been run (the free throws were shot), then you should not be able to go back and undo it.
 
Like Coach G said tonight on the radio show, we were triple-penalized for being fouled!!!
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(my paraphrasing of course)
 
I STILL did not understand Coach G's explanation of how Aggie got the ball BACK after the cluster f@@k by Barlow.....I can see the points going away, but there was STILL a foul on A&M, and since you can't have a "do-over" how could they be given the ball?

Can someone explain??

VERRRRY SLOOOOOOWLY>>>>>

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I guess the biggest thing from all of the chaos...to me...is that Coach G has shown pure CLASS about the whole thing.

Of course I don't think she agreed with the whole fiasco that occurred, but, she did say that it wasn't the reason the Horns lost the game. There was no inside/outside game, and the Horns completely lost sight of the offensive game they've had over the previous 6 games.

Even though i believe with all my heart that the mishap cost the Horns momentum and composure....I love the class that Coach G has displayed about the whole thing. Remember the saying that a team emulates their coach?? That's where the next game comes in to play.

And like she said at the Coach G show tonight...the A&M game is over...time to look to the next game. And coming back from that loss with a win will mean that a great team IS CAPABLE OF overcoming a loss like that.

Horns will regroup and get another big road win in Stillwater. KEEP LOOKING AHEAD, HORNS...and Hornfans!!!!!!

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ahh, lunch time and snow! what a wonderful combination. it would be better if they closed down and we got to go home.
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at any rate, to the subject at hand. no, I agree that sequence of events did not cost the Horns the game. they were already playing without poise and control. but it sure didn't help, especially with a&m getting the ball back.

I'm sure the players want another shot at a&m. I know I want to see them play another game. I want to see the Horns play the whole game the way they started out, ball movement, tough d, rebounding.

ah, well, time to start think about going back to work and being productive.
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The only reason aTm got the ball is because the rule states "point of interruption" and "fixing a correctable error".

I agree that you got screwed two fold, but if the mistake would have been caught before the Ags got possession then Texas would have been awarded the ball.

The rule sucks, but it is the rule. I do a lot of officiating and I had to call my Commissioner to get clarification on the rule.
I fully expect that I would have taken the points off and give UT the ball.
I would have been wrong, but it still seems like the just thing to do.
 
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