Refs do this all the time. They don’t call the obvious foul which caused the player to lose control of the ball, but then give the ball to the offensive team that touched it last.
This happened to my son in a high school game. He was getting ready to go up for a driving layup and got clobbered as he just jumped and he flew out of bounds with the ball. The ref gave the ball back to us. Our coach mockingly told the ref the ball was out on us.
This is the problem with officiating. However many Officials are in the total rotation you have that many idiots who operate in the grey. They make the rules not enforce them consistently. There should never be a make up call. I think back to the vandy game when we had 1 fouls on us halfway through the half then bam 6 fouls in like a minute. There are rules of the game and there is the spirit of the game. Almost every possession presents some form of contact, maybe moving a pivot foot, maybe a carry, mostly though there is contact every possession. These refs have the coaches they prefer, some are racist, some don’t like people from certain regions of the country. Some may hate a fanbase. All these refs have something with some team.
I used to get this ref 4-5 times a season. His kid played club soccer for me 25 years ago. A few years latter I coached for several years the high school team the kid played for. His dad for the first couple years he killed us. Every game he went against us. I know he was racist and we had a pretty diverse school. When a game came up after that second season where he worked on the crew every game he reffed I told my team he is going to screw you. He’s out for me the school something. You go out there and you physically beat the hell out of your opponent. I mean he was going to call 3:1 fouls against us anyway so make all of it count. After a few games maybe a season we were crushing players so much when he officiated that he let half the stuff go bc he couldn’t differentiate between a hard foul and the flow of the game. Soon fouls with him were 2:1, then eventually things averaged out because we pounded everyone with him at center official.
Cal needs to make a list and when one of the worst 3 are on a crew he needs to tell guys like juzang, sestina, brooks to go out and smash the other players on every foul. Eventually they won’t know what to call and the ticky tack crap will go away. Honestly you fill out a roster in order to have the ability to send multiple guys out to make hard fouls.
Disclaimer: I would never coach my players to go dirty or intend to injure players. I encouraged them to make the opponent pay on 50-50 balls, any tackle was next level. I coach my players that when the one is needed to use their strong upper body to run players off the ball. Never go for the legs. Really it’s European style soccer cut from the mold of the Germans, Italians, Dutch. When we had an idiot ref though I shut my mouth and let the players do the talking with their strength and going extremely hard. Many times I had players whose role was to go out and win balls out of the air bc they would smash a guy.
I’m not saying to send sestina as a hatchet man but if Doug shows is out there calling ticky tack garbage send some of our bench out there to dish out some ridiculous hard fouls. Like 7-8 straight hard fouls. The refs will be so preoccupied with the opponent being punched in the mouth that when the game settles back in the ticky tack will look like child’s play. If you’re gonna get these pathetic reac, hand check or phantom garbage fouls screw that smash the crap out of them for about 5 minutes.
