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***Official B1G In-Season Thread***

Paul Szelc is the worst ref I have ever seen.. and has been for years now. I don’t understand how he has a job.
I knew it would be bad early. I’m guessing TKR complained about a non-call and Szelc got in his face and barked at him. I figured he’d call Tre for his second soon and sure enough, like 90 seconds later, he calls him for a questionable charge and did so with his best TV Ted impression, with an exaggerated lunge. That was a hug call as it was TKR!s 2nd foul and USC went on a big run from there.
 
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I’ll add that Szelc and High Knees have both spent a lot of time lately making calls that weren’t their responsibility and were too out of position to get the call right.

It make me wonder why the hell Terry Wymer does.
 
I knew it would be bad early. I’m guessing TKR complained about a non-call and Szelc got in his face and barked at him. I figured he’d call Tre for his second soon and sure enough, like 90 seconds later, he calls him for a questionable charge and did so with his best TV Ted impression, with an exaggerated lunge. That was a hug call as it was TKR!s 2nd foul and USC went on a big run from there.
That first “foul” on TKR was beyond terrible.
 
I knew it would be bad early. I’m guessing TKR complained about a non-call and Szelc got in his face and barked at him. I figured he’d call Tre for his second soon and sure enough, like 90 seconds later, he calls him for a questionable charge and did so with his best TV Ted impression, with an exaggerated lunge. That was a hug call as it was TKR!s 2nd foul and USC went on a big run from there.
I read a kenpom article that Szelc calls more fouls than any other ref per game.

Dude also tossed Beilein the only time ever in his career… in the first half of a game lol.
 
Paul Szelc is the worst ref I have ever seen.. and has been for years now. I don’t understand how he has a job.
Szelc usually screws us and was doing so most of the game, especially in the first half. The conference doesn't have good officials pretty much all around. That said, Musselman is a douche
 
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Indy Star reporting that several restaurants in the downtown area have gone out of business because IU lost. 😂
You are going to run your mouth about attendance after THAT miserable showing? Lol is there a bedtime curfew on the farm?
 
Congrats. Your obsession drives you. Flexing on a player's scary situation is disgusting. Will you hang a banner about it in the trailer? Pathetic

For the thinking individuals in the room...hearing this is sickening. I feel terrible for any player, coach or official that gets this. Every fan base has idiots and the big fan bases like IU are going to have more of them unfortunately. I am afraid we will hear more of this crap given the toxic combination of highly paid players, inconsistent performance and social media.

Coaches can't keep these kids from getting on line, and unfortunately there is no good way to hold people accountable.

It is sad. Period.
 
Congrats. Your obsession drives you. Flexing on a player's scary situation is disgusting. Will you hang a banner about it in the trailer? Pathetic

For the thinking individuals in the room...hearing this is sickening. I feel terrible for any player, coach or official that gets this. Every fan base has idiots and the big fan bases like IU are going to have more of them unfortunately. I am afraid we will hear more of this crap given the toxic combination of highly paid players, inconsistent performance and social media.

Coaches can't keep these kids from getting on line, and unfortunately there is no good way to hold people accountable.

It is sad. Period.
Flexing? You couldn’t be more wrong about why I posted that. I feel for the young man and think fans’ access to players is making for a very unhealthy situation. People respond with “yeah, but they are paid now so fvck them”. Bullshit. Humans never have a right to treat other humans like that.

It’s pretty wild how desperate you are to denigrate anything a Purdue fan does. Perhaps you should look in a mirror.
 
Flexing? You couldn’t be more wrong about why I posted that. I feel for the young man and think fans’ access to players is making for a very unhealthy situation. People respond with “yeah, but they are paid now so fvck them”. Bullshit. Humans never have a right to treat other humans like that.

It’s pretty wild how desperate you are to denigrate anything a Purdue fan does. Perhaps you should look in a mirror.
Nah, you could have chosen many other things to make that point. You were doing exactly what I said

Your history here and in the home boards tells your story
 
Nah, you could have chosen many other things to make that point. You were doing exactly what I said

Your history here and in the home boards tells your story
Whatever. I've been here a lot longer than you and I'll be here having productive conversations with people long after you are gone.
 
Yes but why try.


Dude, I had that same suit that Greg was wearing tonight, very expensive btw, and wore to a wedding in southwest Minnesota. You talk about over dressing. Those rednecks hated my guts and burn my suit coat.

This after I threw a couple glasses and shit..

Either way, they don't know how to party, or dress over there.
 
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Dude, I had that same suit that Greg was wearing tonight, very expensive btw, and wore to a wedding in southwest Minnesota. You talk about over dressing. Those rednecks hated my guts and burn my suit coat.

This after I threw a couple glasses and shit..

Either way, they don't know how to party, or dress over there.
Iowa folks keep it classy. ;)
 
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I believe one of the announcers mentioned Ja Morant and Braden Smith in the same sentence last night; it must have been Robbie. 😂
Dropping facts baby! Dropping facts!.

Obviously Braden is nowhere near Ja on the talent level but he is doing some things that very few have done. I don't recall the specific thing they were talking about last night but I did see that Braden is the 2nd player in history with 500 points, 140 rebounds, 280 assists and 70 steals in the same season. The other player is Kenny Anderson.

Obviously a ton of that is usage driven (Braden is averaging 38 minutes over his last 15 games...not ideal) but still pretty impressive in my book.
 
I'm playing Monday morning quarterback here, but I don't understand why Painter didn't try to limit Smith's playing time this year. If I remember correctly, he logged some pretty good minutes, even in the blowout against Michigan. It's hard to find fault with this season's results, but I wonder if a better-built team would have resulted if Braden had spent less time on the floor. Who knows?
That's something Purdue fans question as well. I'd be interested in seeing Braden's splits on short rest (3 days or less) vs longer rest. I'd wager it's not pretty in comparison.

CJ Cox is good enough that in most games, he could give Braden a minute or 2 each half. Paint does a good job of stealing minutes for TKR just before TV timeouts. I'm not sure why he doesn't for Braden.

The good news is the TV timeouts are longer in the tournament so it shouldn't be as impactful but you never know.
 
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