Monday, January 17, 2005
Big Surprise
Well, the big surprise of the weekend was that the Cyclones went down in defeat to the Cowboys in Stillwater. They've got something like a twenty-some game home winning streak and well, we all know about ISU on the road. Anyway, despite the seemingly inevitable outcome the team actually played pretty well. They fought hard and, in my opinion, outplayed OSU for a majority of the game. The last minute of the first half and the first part of the second half is where OSU really made there run.
My biggest complaint about the game was the officiating. I know that the better team will get the majority of the calls, especially at home, but OSU got away with murder while the Cyclones had fouls called just for looking at a guy. ISU's favorite referree managed to make his presence known. Curtis Shaw managed to throw out his third Cyclone coach in the last five years. Considering how rare it is that coaches are actually tossed and this is quite a feat. Shaw was the same referee that tossed Eustachy in the Michigan State game in 2000 and was suspended from the SEC tournament for flipping off a group of Auburn fans in the regular season finale. Not only did he throw Morgan out but threatened to throw the radio announcers out!
They came back from commercial break and were describing what Morgan did to get tossed and mentioned some of the questionable calls that led up to that moment. Shaw turns to them and says "you'd better find something else to talk about or you'll be joining him." John Walters responded that maybe he should pay a little more attention to what was in front of him on the court. It's just unconscionable that someone like him can't keep his head in the game enough to block out what the announcers were saying about him. I guess when you're as terrible as he is you tend to have some thin skin.
ISU's athletic department needs to make it clear to the Big 12 that this idiot better not be stepping foot onto the court in any other games that the Cyclones are playing. He obviously has some bias against ISU and is essentially starting any ISU coach off with one T.
My biggest complaint about the game was the officiating. I know that the better team will get the majority of the calls, especially at home, but OSU got away with murder while the Cyclones had fouls called just for looking at a guy. ISU's favorite referree managed to make his presence known. Curtis Shaw managed to throw out his third Cyclone coach in the last five years. Considering how rare it is that coaches are actually tossed and this is quite a feat. Shaw was the same referee that tossed Eustachy in the Michigan State game in 2000 and was suspended from the SEC tournament for flipping off a group of Auburn fans in the regular season finale. Not only did he throw Morgan out but threatened to throw the radio announcers out!
They came back from commercial break and were describing what Morgan did to get tossed and mentioned some of the questionable calls that led up to that moment. Shaw turns to them and says "you'd better find something else to talk about or you'll be joining him." John Walters responded that maybe he should pay a little more attention to what was in front of him on the court. It's just unconscionable that someone like him can't keep his head in the game enough to block out what the announcers were saying about him. I guess when you're as terrible as he is you tend to have some thin skin.
ISU's athletic department needs to make it clear to the Big 12 that this idiot better not be stepping foot onto the court in any other games that the Cyclones are playing. He obviously has some bias against ISU and is essentially starting any ISU coach off with one T.
# posted by Ben @ 5:02 PM 
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Ben, what's going on with ISU? Is it too late for the Clones to make a run at the NCAA tourney? They better get things turned around this weekend. And they better knock off Tech when I come to Ames in three weeks. Woo, Campustown!
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