The Rooferee
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Possibly three titles: 2011, 2015 and 2017. I agree that he should never be allowed to ref another college game, let alone a UK game. But, he was voted as rooferee of the year immediately after the UK-UNCheat debacle. Not only that, but they allowed him to rooferee the Final Four a week later.
Speaks volumes to me. Tells me that the POS isn't going anywhere anytime soon and that he will continue to ref college games. It is what it is.
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He's been a FF ref several times. Says a lot about the state of college officiating.
Yes and we were a participant in two of those, if I'm not mistaken: 2011 and 2015. Imagine that lol
Not it. There was a montage the year it happened which showed a number of blown calls by him against U.K.
It was persuasive and could bolster the U.K. argument.
Makes my BP go up just thinking about that.
I don't have the technical equipment to remake another montage similar to the one being referenced. In my estimation, it shouldn't be hard to create another one of blown calls by Higgins against UK. At worst, one would have to sit and watch three UK tourney games: UK-UConn 2011, UK-Wisconsin 2015 and UK-uncheat 2017 and edit them into their own montage. Maybe @CatPhight has the nesessary equipment/apps?
Mine too! I was HOT for a couple months after 2015 and 2017, especially 2017. We were flat out robbed in that one.
I just want to clarify ... the NCAA does not assign any officials for regular season games; Conferences do that.
Maybe not, but I bet you a dollar some get strongly suggested. How else to explain some teams ALWAYS getting a friendly whistle.
For conference games, true.
For high profile non-conference games I believe the referee assignments are done by the sponsor or TV preference.
For just normal non-conference games held on a college campus I’m not sure. I don’t think it’s strictly the conference as many oddball (ie not necessarily affiliated with the home team’s conference) refs work these games.
But I agree with your overall comment that the NCAA itself doesn’t involve themselves in referee assignments until the post-season tournaments.
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Higgins is a Big 12 ref during the regular season. Now which program is always winning that conference, even in years when they don't have the best team? And that team just happens to be #2 in alltime wins, right behind UK.
Talk to any WVU fan about Higgins and see what they say.
Talk to any WVU fan about Higgins and see what they say.
There was an excellent multiple page thread here about Higgins after the 2017 debacle. The person who started it did a lot of research. Someone else did a montage video. I dont know how to search this site but you should be able to find it.
Should be a "search bar" at the top. Maybe it's a magnifying glass? The issue would be that there's probably so many Higgins threads on here it's ridiculous. Would be difficult to thumb through in my estimation.
I remember the thread. It may have been “Higgins’ missed calls...” or something like that. It also had a video of the WVU player getting hurt by a Duke flop in the Final Four in 2010. Huggins was really giving it to the rooferee in the video too.
Huggins, "they don't foul, do they, John?! They don't foul!" Remember that very well!
I think he was doing what he was told.
The NCAA doesn't like one and done. Make sure the one and done team does not win the title.
I definitely think this is true regarding 2017, without question.
Edit: That in combinations with the fact that they wanted uncheat to win a title.
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This is silly. No one is out to get Kentucky or Calipari.
It wasn't Higgins who blew a lead and went on a nearly 6 minute scoring drought late in the 2nd half versus Wisconsin despite having the most talented team that year. And it wasn't Higgins who blew a 5-point lead and went on a 5 minutes scoring drought vs UNC.
How many of you check under your beds at night to make sure the Higgins monster isn't lurking underneath?
It wasn't Higgins who blew a lead and went on a nearly 6 minute scoring drought late in the 2nd half versus Wisconsin despite having the most talented team that year. And it wasn't Higgins who blew a 5-point lead and went on a 5 minutes scoring drought vs UNC.
How many of you check under your beds at night to make sure the Higgins monster isn't lurking underneath?
Watch the video and results evidence, Troll.
So anyone who doesn't fall right in line with the conspiracy theories around here gets labeled a troll? I watched the games and I saw UK blow two late game leads when the offense couldn't hit water the ocean.
But I want to get this straight.
Higgins secret plan was for Kentucky to lose all along, but as part of his diabolical plan to screw UK over, Higgins decided it was best to let UK get out to leads late in both games? Then sensing his plan wasn't working and UK might win those games, Higgins used some type of magical powers to force the UK offense to go scoreless for a combined 9 minutes late during those two games? It that has it works?
But I want to get this straight.
Higgins secret plan was for Kentucky to lose all along, but as part of his diabolical plan to screw UK over, Higgins decided it was best to let UK get out to leads late in both games? Then sensing his plan wasn't working and UK might win those games, Higgins used some type of magical powers to force the UK offense to go scoreless for a combined 9 minutes late during those two games? It that has it works?
I’ll never forget his loose ball foul on Willis when he ran from the other end of the court blowing his godamn whistle while two refs were far closer.
Check out the Cornell game in 2010. Holy crap some of the worst calls and non calls I've ever seen. He was like Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun trying to drag Cornell back into the game.
No. Higgins just made several egregious calls against UK in huge games. UK happened to lose those games. Fans don't tend to forget that. See: Saints and Chiefs fans.
You think the first half and 2nd half were the same in the unc game...Kennedy Meeks should have been fouled out in 5 minutes
The John Higgins Sabotage of Kentucky video is at vidio dot com. I’m not sharing the link because it is unedited and still has his personal info at the end. If someone could copy it and edit that out, it would be worthwhile to keep for the record. And those were just the bad calls from the first half alone!
The video was an example of something I wish more fans did when there are multiple questionable calls made.
Lord knows that the conference isn’t interested in rooting out incompetent officials or looking for questionable behavior in games, and neither is the NCAA. More surprisingly, many in the media are more interested in taking up for referees’ bad calls than they are at questioning these things either.
So in the end either fans hold referees accountable for poor calls or nobody does.
The only regrettable thing was the inclusion of personal information, as that crossed a line. But beyond that I’d encourage people who have the capability to make videos like this, especially when you have referees like Higgins who exhibit a pattern of questionable calls.
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I see most fans in all sports will blame refs for losses, but it wasn't poor officiating that led to those two blown late game leads and a combined 9 minute scoring drought that ultimately cost UK the wins. That was on the coaching and the players and their lack of execution late in games. Unless the Rooferee come up with some way to build a magical roof on Kentucky's basket during those scoring droughts, I don't see how anyone can blame him for the losses.
Fox scored 39 against UCLA two nights before. When UNC's star guard got hurt early in the game, Fox could have easily given us a 10-point advantage at halftime. But alas, Stedman White, that great defensive player, took Fox out of the game and we never got to see.
It wasn't just UK fans who said something about this game. Jay Williams, Bill Walton and Seth Greenberg all said UK got hosed.
Everyone freaks out about the UNC game but I thought the Wisconsin game in 2015 was way more frustrating, and we would have beaten Duke two days later and been undefeated National Championship. We only shot 10 free throws to UW's 22 and were playing far more physically. Two days later, Duke got every call against the Badgers in the 2nd half. Why aren't folks angrier about that game? The UNC game hurt but a 2015 undefeated championship would have made the team and Coach Cal legendary.