seacoaster wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2019 9:21 pm
Let's lose Sutgotz. His little bit about "selling the call" is exactly what the sport doesn't need, and SSB rightly and politely chapped his sorry ass right away when he said it.
I agree 1000%. I'm not going to be as diplomatic as you were. I never heard of this guy and hope I never hear of him again.
Three in the booth is fine if it is the right three. This was not the right three. Every word out of his mouth took air time away from SSB, which is a bad thing for the viewer. When she jumped on him today, I yelled "YES" at my TV. Let's call what he said (he said essentially the same thing on Friday night only worse) what it is: he is calling for cheating. On Friday he said he coaches his young teenagers (2022s) to cheat (pretend they have been fouled when they haven't been)! Huh?! He advocated cheating again today. No, no, no. Get him off the air. Get him out of coaching.
And he doesn't know the rules. He said on Friday that the refs made a bad call on a ball that went out of bounds after a draw since no one had gotten possession. No, the refs made the right call. The ball got to the restraining line and a player batted it backwards. It then went out of bounds. Possession was correctly awarded to the non-batting team. Rule 5, sec. 6 (p. 41). The only time you would do a redraw in that situation is if the ball went straight out of bounds from the two centers' sticks without a player touching it. Rule 5, sec. 5 (p. 41).
OK, end of rant.
Congrats to Maryland on a great win. This may not be the most talented Terp team every, but the Turtle-ettes played about as hard today as is humanly possible. They outplayed BC on offense, defense, and in goal.
I agree Md. got the benefit of the calls to an extent. My take, though, is they were better at figuring out and adjusting to how the refs were calling the game. The Terps were VERY aggressive and physical today, though clean. Lots of what they did could have been whistled, but the refs were letting both teams play, so what might normally have been a foul (e.g., lots of defensive pushing on the shooter) wasn't called today.
I thought a couple of the yellows on BC were bogus and that a couple more could have been issued to Md. The "ward" call was terrible, and came at a critical point of the game.
Having said all that, I don't think the officiating affected who won the game.
Terp Nation, you may already know about this player, but if not, I got several opportunities this year to see a future Terp goalie (HS 2021/UMD 2025) who is really, really good. Yes, she's a few years from arriving in College Park and, yes, it is a huge jump from HS (even top Island level where she is) to top D1, but she sure looks to me like the real deal. I guess we'll see in a few years.