Bo Ryan ... Please
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Exactly.
Not it only were his observations classless and disrespectful to coach K, they were highly flawed!
So, you work your entire life for a chance and then with ten minutes left refs change the way they are calling the game, nothing is a foul by Duke and everything a foul Wisconsin does and he should be gracious, why?
I can't remember another championship runner up complaining like this ever. Really disappointed with Wisconsin overall. Some posters have made great points here that given how Bo Ryan and the players were singing the same tune post game, I think its pretty clear that was the conversation on the bench in crunch time and not this is how we are going to win.
Bo Ryan was close but missed out on being elected to the hall of fame this weekend. I wonder if the voters will remember his post game remarks and hold it against him down the road. I can't imagine he made many friends this final four, especially not with K and Cal.
Bo Ryan was close but missed out on being elected to the hall of fame this weekend. I wonder if the voters will remember his post game remarks and hold it against him down the road. I can't imagine he made many friends this final four, especially not with K and Cal.
Larry
go home. we started driving and they called fouls... get a clue or watch games other than wiscy. You cant play in a game these days and get only 2 fouls at the half. to think a team doesn't commit more than two fouls is a joke. Duke won they didn't. You didn't hear K whining when UConn won in 04 when their okafor was the center. oh wait hes classy and Bo is a shmuck.
go home. we started driving and they called fouls... get a clue or watch games other than wiscy. You cant play in a game these days and get only 2 fouls at the half. to think a team doesn't commit more than two fouls is a joke. Duke won they didn't. You didn't hear K whining when UConn won in 04 when their okafor was the center. oh wait hes classy and Bo is a shmuck.
It's really a dumb argument. That tact is more appropriate for clueless moms watching a high school game, not for someone who knows something about the sport. For the game, UW had a grand total of three more fouls than their season average, easily explained by the intentional fouling late to stop the clock (UW didn't have to play from behind much this year). They gotta grow up, being a sore loser is embarrassing.
The play where Tyus got fouled he had the refs to review because his players chin got in the way. pitiful
When Okafor was called for his 4th foul, Frank Kaminsky picked up his dribble, spun (step one) took another step and extended his shooting hand out. Okafor was positioned to block it, so Kaminsky took a third step and shot the ball. Could have easily been called a walk instead of a foul on Okafor.
The play where Winslow stepped out of bounds? Someone posted a still shot from the top of the backboard. The Wisconsin defender had his forearm on Winslow and was pushing him with everything he had left in the tank. Refs normally won't call that a foul, but it could easily explain why they didn't call Winslow out of bounds.
Those were just two examples. I feel certain there were dozens more that were either not called or where the call benefitted one or the other team. never in my life have I seen so many fans of the losing team (or Duke haters) whine so incessantly about the officiating. They take their lead from their coach.
I had no problem with either Bo Ryan or Wisconsin prior to his post-game whine session. His antics led me to investigate his historical behavior. What I learned was that Bo makes a habit of behaving boorishly. In 2012, Bo Ryan tried hard to prevent one of his players from transferring to any school in the Big 10 (not uncommon) as well as a bunch of schools that aren't even on Wisconsin's schedule, but might be or will be in a few years. The transfer request for buried in the inbox of an associate athletic director for a bit and it took public pressure for Bo to quit screwing the kid. He can come across as petty, vengeful and quick with excuses. And he seems to pay only lip service to his duty to see that his student-athletes receive an education and graduate. Just take a look at Wisconsin's graduation rate for men's basketball players while he has been in charge.
What's disappointing is that neither Bo Ryan nor Barry Alvarez has taken any steps to apologize or conduct any damage control. By not doing so, they are tacitly or otherwise sending the message that blaming others is the Wisconsin way. I know there are plenty of Wisconsin fans (and Frank Kaminsky) that handled the loss with a lot more class, grace and dignity than the head coach, but their class is being overshadowed by what would have to be considered the official stance on why Wisconsin lost the game.
The play where Winslow stepped out of bounds? Someone posted a still shot from the top of the backboard. The Wisconsin defender had his forearm on Winslow and was pushing him with everything he had left in the tank. Refs normally won't call that a foul, but it could easily explain why they didn't call Winslow out of bounds.
Those were just two examples. I feel certain there were dozens more that were either not called or where the call benefitted one or the other team. never in my life have I seen so many fans of the losing team (or Duke haters) whine so incessantly about the officiating. They take their lead from their coach.
I had no problem with either Bo Ryan or Wisconsin prior to his post-game whine session. His antics led me to investigate his historical behavior. What I learned was that Bo makes a habit of behaving boorishly. In 2012, Bo Ryan tried hard to prevent one of his players from transferring to any school in the Big 10 (not uncommon) as well as a bunch of schools that aren't even on Wisconsin's schedule, but might be or will be in a few years. The transfer request for buried in the inbox of an associate athletic director for a bit and it took public pressure for Bo to quit screwing the kid. He can come across as petty, vengeful and quick with excuses. And he seems to pay only lip service to his duty to see that his student-athletes receive an education and graduate. Just take a look at Wisconsin's graduation rate for men's basketball players while he has been in charge.
What's disappointing is that neither Bo Ryan nor Barry Alvarez has taken any steps to apologize or conduct any damage control. By not doing so, they are tacitly or otherwise sending the message that blaming others is the Wisconsin way. I know there are plenty of Wisconsin fans (and Frank Kaminsky) that handled the loss with a lot more class, grace and dignity than the head coach, but their class is being overshadowed by what would have to be considered the official stance on why Wisconsin lost the game.
