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Tsti FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
pas Arkansas basketball coach Eddie
W Suijton said his 1 Ith-ranked
’ffas Razorbacks would be doing well
mvwi tp hiake it through this week
Ie • without a loss.
JetsA® Getting past Texas Tech
othe onight in Lubbock would be im-
bettr pjtant to stay in contention
with Houston for the Southwest
n ^oliference crown and leave the
Razorbacks with only one con-
erence loss halfway through the
eague play, Sutton said
Tuesday.
This game is very important
rojpi the standpoint that we
iced to win to keep pressure on
sajdfcffioLston,” said the Arkansas
encl, oach, whose Razorbacks’ only
oss of the season came against
ijovi he Cougars Saturday in
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ribuDoMTexas Tech is always tough
i untilll.T home. We’ve played a lot of
p ou James the last few days and we
nibeJfd to get back to the practice
:ourt. After Tech, we’ll have a
nstraitc^n-day period to have some gut
1I1( j Hctices. We’ve got to improve
eh tlit FPre we play Baylor.”
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Houston Saturday, the Razor-
11 J jacks posted an 83-64 SWC win
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Eddie Sutton says Hogs
face tough road ahead
Fayetteville. After the Tech
game, Arkansas next plays No.
20 Wake Forest on the road in
Greensboro, N.C., before start
ing its second round of league
play.
The 1 Ith-ranked Razorbacks
take a record of 15-1 overall, 5-1
in the SWC, into the battle with
Texas Tech.
Sutton said assistant coach
Fred Trenkle scouted Tech and
his report indicated the Red
Raiders had a good starting
lineup and played “with a lot of
intensity.”
The Arkansas coach said
Tech’s Bubba Jennings prob
ably was one of the best guards
in the conference. He said the
Red Raiders probably would
come out in a 3-2 zone which
could force Arkansas to turn to
its outside shooting.
“Jennings is a very good point
guard,” Sutton said of the 5-10,
160-pound sophomore. “He’s
tremendous at getting the ball
into the hands of someone who
can do somthing with it.”
Sutton said he did not think
his team played very well against
Texas, despite the 19-point final
margin. He said the Razorbacks
had been making too many
mental mistakes lately.
“If we can survive this week,
we’ll be okay,” he said. The
Razorbacks defeated Texas
A&M 66-64 earlier this season,
one of the Aggies’ three confer
ence losses. Texas A&M has yet
to play Texas Tech, but the two
teams meet Monday in College
Station. The Aggies play Texas
in Austin Saturday.
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If God could ref, would
He like the home court?
Editor’s note: This is the first of 12
columns The Battalion will run by for
mer Marquette University basketball
coach A1 McGuire. Throughout the
course of the basketball season, McGuire
will offer his insight and humor weekly to
Texas A&M sports fans.
Being a college basketball official is an
impossible job. No matter what he does,
he can’t please anybody. I’ve always said
that only God could ref ... and he’d pre
fer the home court.
There is no way these guys do it for
the money. The Big Ten, for example,
pays $300 per game, plus mileage, with a
$75 per diem, and a percentage if they
stay over. But most referees have to have
another job, because the NCAA says they
can only work three games a week. It’s
done for their love of sports — so they
can remain a part of the bucket game and
stay close to the well.
I truly believe there’s no such thing as
a dishonest official. He’s like the weather
man. He doesn’t decide where the snow
falls, he just points out where it does. But
I do think sometimes the crowd can work
on the subconscious of the official. He
might make some calls trying to appease
the howling mob. But it’s done subcon
sciously.
If a coach is going to be successful,
there are certain things he must recog
nize about officials, like fast and slow
whistles. The lirst thing a coach must
find out in a game is if the coaches are
blowing the whistle fast or slow.
A fast whistle is a high school whistle
that normally doesn’t allow any contact.
Normally you can get this early in the
game. We call these types of fouls “tickle
fouls,” and right away, as a coach, you
must immediately call off all pressure,
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by Al McGuire
both full and half-court.
On the other hand, if it’s a slow whistle
— a pro whistle — you play man-to-man
and apply the pressure. But if it’s a fast
whistle you go to the zone defenses.
Normally, the ref that works in front
of the bench, which we call “static row,” is
the more mature official, the leader of
the group. He’s the one you don’t yell at.
You usually jump on the guy who’s farth
est away. When you jump an official, re
member, it’s not for the call he just made,
but for the next one. You’re planting
seeds you hope will germinate in his sub
conscious.
An example: If you play against the
big man, a Keith Lee (Memphis State
forward) you say to the ref: “Hey, that
guy is camping in the lane! Four, five, six
seconds!” Or if you’re against a great
quarterback, you say, “Watch that Fos
ter! He charges on his drives!”
These are all just tricks of the trade.
But now, all of a sudden, you’ve planted
the seed. The ref is overconscious of a
certain thing, and every so often from
the bench you remind him. It’s some
thing you learn over the years, and it
adds up to experience.
All officials have idiosyncracies and
the smart coach plays to them. Some
know the rule book frontwards and back
wards, so maybe before the game you ask
him about a crazy rule, stroking the offi
cial, like, “What if you take a shot with
two seconds to go, and the lights go out?”
or that sort of thing, to try to butter the
official up.
Some coaches keep a book on officials.
Some refs favor charging, some favor
blocking, some have quick or slow whis
tles. Some allow you to play like it’s foot
ball and some think the game is crumpets
and tea. Some are wilters. That is, if you
yell at ’em, they fade out of the game.
Others are rednecks, because if you yell
at them they come back at you. Some are
politicians, thinking of next year’s assign
ments, because in some conferences
where officials are rated, they drop off
the back 25 percent and add new officials
the following year.
A mortal sin in basketball is a split
crew, which means one ref is from one
team’s conference and the other is from
the other team’s conference. This, in my
opinion, is wrong for two reasons: It’s
difficult for the officials and it’s not mor
ally right for the game. The officials have
never worked together before, so you’re
going to get inconsistencies. And the
visiting coach feels the one guy is there to
protect him, the other guy to hurt him,
that sort of thing.
In my opinion, in an intersectional
game the refs should come from the con
ference or area of the visiting team. All
contracts are two-year contracts, so the
next year it would be done in reverse.
For the NCAA tournament, each con
ference assigns official crews. During the
early games, the NCAA has people
observing the crews, grading them, and
allowing the best ones to keep going
along as the tournament progresses. So
there’s pressure on them, too. If the
crews produce, they go on. It’s that
simple.
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