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Just for the sake of discussion...In the BU-Evansville game yesterday..
I am not at all unhappy, especially with the outcome...but as I watched early on I had to wonder why oh why were the refs calling every tiny bit of even the most ticky tack contact in the lane a FOUL??
every player who played within 1 foot of the paint (Egolf, Singh, Taylor Brown) had at least 2 fouls yesterday within the first 10 minutes of the game!
Even our 3rd string center, Anthony Thompson, had two well before the half...
In the end, our guys made great adjustments and played effectively anyway, and never was foul trouble a really serious issue....
but still, I wanted to check on the refs we had and just see where they rank as far as fouls called in MVC games....
Mike Litzelfelner - 40.2 fouls per game overall, and 40.3 fouls per MVC game, #1 (tied) among all refs who have called MVC games..
(oddly he has also called OVC games and averages only 34.5 fouls per game called in those games...so obviously in the games he refs for the Valley there's a huge increase and discrepancy in how fouls are called compared to the games he refs elsewhere.)
Gene Grimshaw - 42.9 fouls per game, and this stat would place him BY FAR #1 in fouls called per game in the entirety of Division I!!!! - if he were in the rankings (but the rankings for fouls per game only rank the refs who have called more than 35 games - the leader is at 41.6 fpg)
Dave Warfel - 39.5 fouls per game so far this year, this is only the 2nd game he has officiated this season....so he is an unknown thus far in this season, but historically he is among the tops in fouls called...
He is almost exclusively an MVC ref, with 117 of the 118 games he's reffed in the past 14 seasons being MVC conference games.
(I guess this kinda blows the he!! out of the asinine argument that there really isn't such a thing as a "Valley ref"!!)
40.2 in 2008-2009 (4th highest among all refs who did Valley games)
40.6 in 2007-2008 (3rd highest among all refs who did Valley games)
40.7 in 2006-2007 (Absolute tops, #1, among all refs who did Valley games)
and he even had one season at 43.3 one of the highest of all time in D-I!
so there is reason to believe we had three of the most prolific foul callers all at the same time in yesterday's game, yet overcame a few weak early fouls on our big guys and played well anyway!
I am not at all unhappy, especially with the outcome...but as I watched early on I had to wonder why oh why were the refs calling every tiny bit of even the most ticky tack contact in the lane a FOUL??
every player who played within 1 foot of the paint (Egolf, Singh, Taylor Brown) had at least 2 fouls yesterday within the first 10 minutes of the game!
Even our 3rd string center, Anthony Thompson, had two well before the half...
In the end, our guys made great adjustments and played effectively anyway, and never was foul trouble a really serious issue....
but still, I wanted to check on the refs we had and just see where they rank as far as fouls called in MVC games....
Mike Litzelfelner - 40.2 fouls per game overall, and 40.3 fouls per MVC game, #1 (tied) among all refs who have called MVC games..
(oddly he has also called OVC games and averages only 34.5 fouls per game called in those games...so obviously in the games he refs for the Valley there's a huge increase and discrepancy in how fouls are called compared to the games he refs elsewhere.)
Gene Grimshaw - 42.9 fouls per game, and this stat would place him BY FAR #1 in fouls called per game in the entirety of Division I!!!! - if he were in the rankings (but the rankings for fouls per game only rank the refs who have called more than 35 games - the leader is at 41.6 fpg)
Dave Warfel - 39.5 fouls per game so far this year, this is only the 2nd game he has officiated this season....so he is an unknown thus far in this season, but historically he is among the tops in fouls called...
He is almost exclusively an MVC ref, with 117 of the 118 games he's reffed in the past 14 seasons being MVC conference games.
(I guess this kinda blows the he!! out of the asinine argument that there really isn't such a thing as a "Valley ref"!!)
40.2 in 2008-2009 (4th highest among all refs who did Valley games)
40.6 in 2007-2008 (3rd highest among all refs who did Valley games)
40.7 in 2006-2007 (Absolute tops, #1, among all refs who did Valley games)
and he even had one season at 43.3 one of the highest of all time in D-I!
so there is reason to believe we had three of the most prolific foul callers all at the same time in yesterday's game, yet overcame a few weak early fouls on our big guys and played well anyway!
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