Page 6 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1976
Spicer, Godine in spotlight
when Aggies host Baylor
By PAUL McGRATH
Hattnlion Sports Editor
The two top candidates for South
west Conference Freshman of the
Year will be spotlighted tomorrow
night as the loop-leading Aggie ca-
gers host the Baylor Bears.
Baylor s Larry Spicer is one of his
team’s pacesetters in the scoring arid
rebounding departments. The 6-7
frosh will start at forward.
The Aggies’ rookie sensation, Karl
Godine out of Houston Kashmere, is
fresh off a milepost game with the
Texas Longhorns. Godine led the
Ags with 24 points and 10 rebounds,
both being personal highs for the
first-year man.
The Aggies opened conference
play against the Bears and came away
from Waco with a 76-69 victory, al
though it took an overtime period to
accomplish the task.
Coach Shelby Metcalf s troops are
one-half game ahead of the Texas
Tech Red Raiders, and a full game up
on SMU. The Ags are 8-1 in confer
ence play, the only loss coming at the
hands of Arkansas in double over
time.
The Bears have a 6-5 league mark
after suffering an upset loss to TCU
on their home ground. Baylor is
struggling to remain in the first divi
sion, giving them the home advan
tage in the post season tournament.
The Aggies are yet to lose at home
this year and have a four-game
victory string on the line. Overall,
A&M boasts a 15-4 record.
Dr. Metcalfs squad has been
strong on the boards this year, av
eraging 41 caroms per contest. Post
man Barry Davis leads the category
with 184, a mean of 9.7 a game.
Scoring leader Sonny Parker is av
eraging nearly 20 points an outing.
All told, the Ags are hitting a per
centage of .462 from the floor.
Freshman Jarvis Williams and
senior Ray Roberts, along with
Parker, Davis and Godine, complete
the Aggies’ starting lineup in tomor
row night’s 7:30 p.m. contest.
Besides Spicer, the Baptists will
start George Jones, Billy Carlisle,
Tony Rufus and Arthur Edwards.
The Baylor game kicks off a rugged
schedule which lies ahead for the
Aggies. Tuesday, the team travels to
Dallas to face SMU, and returns
Saturday for a home rematch with
Tech.
The Ags suit up for the second
time against the Houston Cougars as
they travel to Hofheinz Pavilion
Feb. 17.
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Bad officiating hurts SWf
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Battalion Staff Writer
There comes a time once a year
when every sports writer in the
Southwest Conference takes time
out to write about basketball re
ferees.
The time has come for me and it
has come for a couple of reasons.
First of all, the Aggies are winning,
and I won’t sound like a sore loser if I
gripe. Second, the conference has
finally gained a glimmer of national
prominence with a Sports Illustrated
story this week. Lastly, the Ag home
crowd got a chance to see two re
ferees who are dreaded by local bas
ketball people in the recent Texas
game.
To obtain some sort of impartial
system for rating referees, two years
ago another writer and myself de
vised a formula to give a numerical
rating to referee performances. It
was designed to take into account
home crowd bias, missed calls, bad
calls and overloading the whistle on a
certain team. Here’s how it works.
Refs are given a point total based
on the number of whistles blown and
whistles that should have been
blown. Fouls count double that of an
ordinary call, such as traveling. This
total is then converted to percentage
points based on 100.
Then all calls and fouls are
analyzed. Non-foul calls count as one
point and are then converted to per
centage table. Any call that is missed
is counted double. This penalizes a
referee for refusing to make a possi
ble bad call, and also for not paying
attention.
A foid that immediately affects the
outcome of the game is squared. The
same is done with a call of equal
proportions.
The object of this is not to decide
how much a ref hurt a particular
team, but rather to judge the overall
performance of the referee in the
game.
In order to give a call or foul the
status of bad, it had to meet one of
two criteria. Either the crowd had to
sustain a prolonged display of dis
pleasure, or a coach had to verbally
protest the call from his feet.
One might say that this terribly
biases the data, but hopefully it af
fords merely a fudge factor. The
home crowd will be responsible for a
great deal of decisions, but assuming
the ref is equally adept or inept, the
home crowds overenthusiasm will
make up for the lack of similar en
thusiasm from fans of the visiting
team. Again, this is based on the ref’s
total performance and not his weight
on either side of the scoreboard.
A more recognizable aspect of a
ref s bias toward a team or player is
the number of fouls called against a
team or player compared to the per
formance of the other referee in the
same game. Points were deducted
for overloading calls or fouls on a cer
tain team or player.
This was the most telling factor on
the refs in Tuesday’s game, John
Kloza and Del Poss. Kloza, possibly
because he had reffed an earlier
Aggie game was the most energetic
with the whistle. His was heard 48
times in the game, compared to 31
for Poss. What hurt Kloza on the
score was that he pointed his finger
at the Ags a bit too often. In all, 42
fouls and five technicals were whis
tled. The Aggies were called down
23 times to the Horns 19. Against
Texas, Kloza called nine fouls and
Poss whistled 10. Sound about right?
Well check this out. Of the Ags’ 23,
Kloza called 17 and Poss whistled six.
Minus two for Kloza. Kloza remark
ably called four fouls on Karl Godine
and all five on Barry Davis.
One might say Kloza was merely
in charge, but for the game the two
traded time evenly under the basket.
They split the number of non-foul
calls made, each having a voice in 20.
Because Poss spent less time blow
ing the whistle, he also lost points
each time he blew a call. Neverthe
less he fared better on the final score
with a 44.60 total to Kloza’s 36.73.
While these scores are based on
100 points, they do not reflect the
way the game was called on a bad-
call/good-call basis or any other per
centage basis for that matter. They
simply serve as a standard of rating
by which all refereeing jobs during
the season may be compared.
The scores earned by these two
are not the lowest earned since this
formula has been used, but are the
norm of about 50 below.
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that different coaching andB
styles are very different, anBommi
things can win a game, bullfjeview
ref decides that so-and- jt was t
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be sent back to doing juiiiKf the
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It s about time thatthiscoij ii ar jfy
got out of football heaveni
cided that there is twoortk
MAJOR sports in this count
time will only come when*
league commissioner (
gets out of the exclusivefootl
or gets out of office. Hisbij
the beginning of the season!
he had a student assistanti
carried the basketball [
through the end of football
Bush league. Promote the
assistant.
The officiating in this conference
keeps the SWC out of the national
limelight. The teams have de
veloped in the last four years into
highly competitive squads that have
the talent, the skill and the coaching
to give any top ten team a good lic-
kin .
May this conference nob
known in Sports Illustratedi
ball conference with some in
basketball and baseball. Th
All-America’s all aroundn(w
national champions in W
here. Long live the multi-i
ference, the SWC.
However, the consistently poor of
ficiating keeps SWC teams from
being able to compete when the time
comes to play a team who is used to
non-kindergarten referees.
Southwest Conference referee Joe
Shosid said recently that referees
could not be consistent because bas-
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