Ed Hightower To Referee PSU at Ohio State? Seriously?
by Run Up The Score on Feb 19, 2009 3:06 PM EST
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PrintHey, at least we already have the Illinois win in our collective pocket. David Jones has the details:
It's also a final homecoming for Columbus-native senior power forward Jamelle Cornley who's sure to be juiced up for the occasion.
Welcoming him, according to a league source, will be the notorious showman himself, rug-sporting and ever-demonstrative veteran zebra Ed Hightower. It was Hightower who seemed to build some mysterious acrimony for Cornley this season, handing him technicals against Iowa and at Michigan State when the well-spoken senior had received only one T previously in his entire college career.
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Isn't Hightower the same guy that had it out for Knight?
I don’t blame him for that because Bob Knight is a Class A jack—- but I was just curious. If I’m correct we’re in for another rough night with this clown because he can’t let his biases go when he’s calling a game. Ugh!!
Dick Honig will be in charge of replay.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Sam Lickliter will handle last minute foul calls
Fucking prick.
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 19, 2009 9:48 PM EST up reply actions
I'll second that
I was about nine rows up behind the basket on the end of the court where that travesty took place. I’ll never forget it… the end of that game was the most deflating experience of my (sports-related) life.
Me and my roommate Jeff were on the
next day’s CDT cover “celebrating the victory” only to have the greatest game I’ve ever witnessed in person get stolen from us. We were up on the running track just going crazy.
For those that need a refresher.
http://pennstate.scout.com/2/352554.html
pinkertonpark.com - you owe yerself a laugh.
just so we're clear
b/c that article read like an episode of Lost… PSU was winning with 17 seconds to go and the ball and the PSU player was called for a foul when the Indiana player pulled on his jersey? Or IU was winning and… oh hell — please explain it again.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
Correct.
Our ball out of bounds, IU played grabbed the jersey to foul PSU player (Bartram), instead PSU gets whistled FOR AN OFFENSIVE FALL WHEN BARTRAM SLAPPED HIS HAND AWAY!!!!!!!!
To the day I die, I will wish harm upon Sam Lickliter.
More in-depth article:
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1993/05/05-03-93cm/05-03-93cm-4.asp
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 20, 2009 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
Dude, I don't want to read an article
about how Lickliter’s view was obstructed by Bartram so he didn’t see the jersey pull. No f-ing excuses. I want to remember him personally destroying and taking away the greatest win in PSU BB history. Hard to believe the guy couldn’t figure out why Bartram was running in place as he approached center court. Where the hell were the other officials?
pinkertonpark.com - you owe yerself a laugh.
Fuck Lickliter. Fuck Monje (other ref)
Nothing – NOTHING – will ever make me satisfied. He didn’t see. Great excuse from an awful ref. Be in position, then, shitbird. Where was the other fucking idiot?
Clearly, 17 years later, I still hold a grudge, and will until the day I die.
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 20, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
And for good reason.
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by Run Up The Score on Feb 20, 2009 10:34 PM EST up reply actions
Great article - thanks for the link
I got chills (and frustration) all over again just reading it.
I love Bobby Knight’s (aka “Darth Sweater”) quote about Penn State – maybe that’s where TP got the idea.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Most frustrating PSU Bball moment ever
I still to this day can’t believe that went down. If ever there was a reason to believe that certain entities within the Big Ten had it out for us, this is one of them. There was just no possible way that that could be explained within the confines of legitimate reasoning. Okay, now I’m mad all over again. Ugh!!
I couldn't open the article at work but
it has to be in regards to the travesty that occurred when we lost to Indiana years ago.
The Hightower photos get better and better
Maybe we need a poll of the best one.
I still LOL at his “dance” at Michigan.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
I agree
This is definitely one of the best Hightower photoshops I’ve seen yet!
Let's Go State!
by Gopher Broke on Feb 19, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
MY GOD
That’s some funny shit!
Love this:
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 19, 2009 9:53 PM EST up reply actions
a BSD exclusive.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
This photo proves how fugly Michigan girls are. Plus, aren’t cheerleaders generally in the upper echelon of hotness? I mean I’ve seen better looking women in engineering classes up at PSU.
actually
collegiate cheerleaders usually aren’t that hot. At this level it is more of an athletic thing (as opposed to most high school cheerleaders, where it is just the “hot girls” standing around waving pom-poms). Because of this, they’re usually 2 types of girls: the short, stocky ones, and the short light ones (for tosses and flips and such)
When you are at games and see the “hot” girls on the field/court, it is usually the dance team, which tends towards tall, lithe girls doing high-kicks and such. (Though this could all just be my personal preference of tall, thin girls opposed to short, muscular/stocky girls)
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 20, 2009 12:43 PM EST up reply actions
No, I'm with you
From where I sit at the Beav, that redhead on the dance team always gets my attention!!!!!
I had no idea Aha was such a big Hightower fan
Who knew?
by RNF18 on Feb 19, 2009 3:40 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
My vote
It’s gotta be the one on the hopper with the Lysol in his hand.
There is a tractor in the parking lot, West Virginia license EIEIO. Your lights are on.
by leeharvey418 on Feb 19, 2009 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
Great...
Cornley just needs to keep his cool, not trash talk to the other team (which is what I think earned him the second technical), and just play. Don’t give Hightower the excuse to abuse his whistle-blowing authority. In any case, get prepared for the fouls to be “evened out” in the second half, so that both teams have approximately the same number of team fouls called on them, regardless of what fouls were called or not called in the first half, or how the game’s being played. That’s what this crew loves to do.
Let's Go State!
Hightower's crew is a farse of a crew
and the complete definition of a refereeing crew who needs to be an “active” part of the game. Refs are meant to ref/judge, not interfere.
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 19, 2009 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
You know it's bad
… when fans of both teams are royally ticked off after a game. That’s what happened with Purdue-MSU on Tuesday.
I know
that game was ridiculous.
Even when the bad calls are in my team’s favor, I still feel dirty, and if it is one of those calls that directly leads to a win, I never really feel satisfied. I’ve often thought of booing loudly at the refs when they make such horrendous calls, even when the calls favor us. I just hate bad reffing (and yes, I know most refs don’t try to be bad, and the mind can often play tricks on you and make you believe you saw something, even though you didn’t, but god, sometimes I just wish refs would own up to not having a view of a call)
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 20, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
Hightower
Did the Pitt/UConn game… Anyone watch how many fouls there were in that one?
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
That game
was the worst officiated game I had ever watched. No consistency. Like Gopher mentioned, he evens out the calls no matter the situation.
He is like that one baseball umpire that tries to be the main attraction by going overboard with his strikeout/foul calls.
WE ARE.......PENN STATE!
Was a terribly officiated game
No lie, Jay Bilas and Bill Raftery were restraining themsevles from running on the court, especially after Thabeet got his 4th foul call. It was a joke of a game.
To quote Bill Raftery
They were calling the pocket change in the second half. Gotta love the Nickle and dimers.
That game was a f'ing joke
DeJuan Blair got away with dump trucking everyone (the shaq get out of my way move with that 280 lbs frame). They really killed that game, and the 4th foul called on Thabeet was just awful.
And Gopher Broke his crew def. will “even out” the fouls. (See second half Uconn/Pitt game)
I didn't see the game or even know that Hightower officiated it
But on both Fox and WWL radio shows, different talking heads made a point to mention how poor the officiating was, and how much it influenced and impacted the outcome of the game.
Those clowns are the type of people that should not have jobs as officials. They’re drama-queens, they’re hungry for the spot-light. I have no idea how jackasses like that continue getting paid to be so bad at their job when it’s so obvious to everyone.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
I assume the refs have a union
Have you ever worked in a union shop? I don’t know if it’s the same for most unions but my experience as a past-union member led me to believe you had to shoot the boss’s wife before you would get fired and even then you might only be put on a verbal warning.
My union ultimately made the decision that $18/hr for manual labor wasn’t enough for a bunch of coalcrackers(I mean that effectionately :-) ) who were lucky if they had their GED. Which led the plant to close. Okay, I’m ranting now but you get the picture. Unions generally hold companies hostage and promote laziness without much repercussion. See Detroit.
If scoring keeps up at this pace
with a healthy dose of Hightower, anyone wanna bet that the score doesn’t top the football game this year?
Which reminds me, I should probably run to the liquor store before this one.
John Madden told me 90% of the game was half-mental...
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Feb 19, 2009 4:13 PM EST reply actions
Don't laugh...
Penn State’s first 5 football games: 249 total points (5-0)
Penn State’s last 5 basketball games: 243 total points (2-3)
by Cairo on Feb 19, 2009 5:09 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Ed's newest ploy to get attention:
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
by millzners on Feb 19, 2009 5:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Hysterical!
Love the hat. Who says PSU is too country?
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
In the event we're losing by 20 late at Ohio State
I hereby give Jamelle Cornley permission to get two technicals — one for ripping Hightower’s lid off, and the other by punting it into the stands.
--
Mr. Bob Dobalina
by Run Up The Score on Feb 19, 2009 6:37 PM EST reply actions
There will be at least one point during the game where Cornley has that “I’m going to kill everyone in this damn building!” look on his face.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
by ReadingRambler on Feb 19, 2009 6:41 PM EST up reply actions
that is a scary look
after the last Michigan game I swore he was going to kill the rest of the team (though maybe that’s what happened, and he replaced them with look-a-likes. That would explain why the team all of a sudden couldn’t shoot baskets to save their lvies)
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 20, 2009 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
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