What I found most interesting about the controversy over the Boise State loss to Colorado State was playing the blame game.
Who done it?
Kinda reminds me of the old board game, which I hated and always lost, Clue. I can’t forget old Mr. Green, Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum. Well this Mountain West caper has some suspects as well:
David Hall, The Ref: The Mountain West refs have it in for Boise State according to some. They are jealous of the Broncos success in football and everything else and want to bring them down a few pegs. Or, the refs are gambling on the side and managing the point spread. WHATEVER. Bring me some evidence of this and I would love to see these refs put on trial for Referee Brutality. Sometimes I think fans who hate referees are projecting their distaste for authority figures like police, lunch room monitors and their Father. And, LET ME BE CLEAR. The refs were following the rules by going to the review monitor. It wasn’t selective and they NEVER pulled out a stopwatch and timed it. Sheesh.
Commissioner Thompson: He secretly wants to make the league as balanced as possible to make his job easier. He lives closer to Fort Collins then Boise so he wants Colorado State to buy him dinner once in a while. He knows Boise State receives more TV money than any other school and he needs to balance the scales SOMEHOW. REDICK! How would Thompson have made sure the refs used a faulty replay monitor? Did he specifically order one sent to this game? Did he do that via a call on his shoe phone?
The CEO, Brian Lowe of DVSport: Obviously hired by the Mountain West to destroy Boise State basketball. One game at a time. He also may have wanted to test market his plan to control college basketball by deciding last second shots himself with his technology. Or since he once was a graduate assistant at PITT, he somehow has it out for Boise State for ever considering joining the Big East. WOW. Maybe he screwed up the technology or one of his assistants. Maybe not. But, after some 14,000 events, this had never happened and now they are designing an entirely new protocol.
TV Production Truck Guys alias JP: Now we are getting somewhere. The Mountain West has admitted that the refs, under the direction of the conference, and using DVSports technology, were fooled into watching James Webb’s shot in slow motion. It really is the TV Production Truck Guys fault. I can see how Jon Patrick organized this from Boise. He mysteriously has been taking Mondays off recently, no doubt to organize this conspiracy. He is also disappearing this Presidents Day, probably to hide out until the media storm passes. He dresses like a TV Production Truck Guy. Jeans, tennis shoes, and oversized sweaters are all he owns. And, just like TV Production Truck Guys, he has an uncanny knack for being first in line for the media buffets. He also swears at inanimate objects and engineers who can’t hear him. In fact, the Tampa Bay Bucs Head Coach Dirk Koetter called Jp “the Silent Assassin.” Yes, whenever I am in doubt of who done it, I always blame Jp. And, now, the TV Production Truck Guys.
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