Hall2012 wrote:I haven't seen that article, but I saw this one on ESPN a few weeks ago:
[list=]http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18961636/australian-andrew-gaze-laments-call-cost-seton-hall-1989-ncaa-tournament-championship[/list]
I think the most impressive part is how much class Seton Hall acted with after being screwed out of the national championship by one of the worst calls in NCAA Tournament history. Today, you'd have coaches blasting the refs in their press conference, players complaining on social media, and fans sending the refs death threats and attempting to destroy their unrelated personal businesses (hi Kentucky).
That SHU team handled it well, and as Gaze said in the ESPN story, he's actually more angry about the call now than when it happened. It's unfortunate that Michigan has the banner (though with a big blue asterisk) because everyone who saw that game knows which team deserved it. And considering we later learned what kind of a man Steve Fisher is, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he had something to do with that call.
Gaze told me that when he was back in the U.S. a few years later for another exhibition tour with the Australian team, he played a game that was officiated by Clougherty, and that Clougherty approached him and told him he had made a mistake by calling that foul on Greene.
“I told him, ‘Oh, no worries, mate,’” Gaze told me. “I thought it was very classy of him to say that.”
Doge McDermott wrote:Hall2012 wrote:I haven't seen that article, but I saw this one on ESPN a few weeks ago:
[list=]http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18961636/australian-andrew-gaze-laments-call-cost-seton-hall-1989-ncaa-tournament-championship[/list]
I think the most impressive part is how much class Seton Hall acted with after being screwed out of the national championship by one of the worst calls in NCAA Tournament history. Today, you'd have coaches blasting the refs in their press conference, players complaining on social media, and fans sending the refs death threats and attempting to destroy their unrelated personal businesses (hi Kentucky).
That SHU team handled it well, and as Gaze said in the ESPN story, he's actually more angry about the call now than when it happened. It's unfortunate that Michigan has the banner (though with a big blue asterisk) because everyone who saw that game knows which team deserved it. And considering we later learned what kind of a man Steve Fisher is, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he had something to do with that call.
Don't read this part then.Gaze told me that when he was back in the U.S. a few years later for another exhibition tour with the Australian team, he played a game that was officiated by Clougherty, and that Clougherty approached him and told him he had made a mistake by calling that foul on Greene.
“I told him, ‘Oh, no worries, mate,’” Gaze told me. “I thought it was very classy of him to say that.”
Hall2012 wrote:Doge McDermott wrote:Hall2012 wrote:I haven't seen that article, but I saw this one on ESPN a few weeks ago:
[list=]http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18961636/australian-andrew-gaze-laments-call-cost-seton-hall-1989-ncaa-tournament-championship[/list]
I think the most impressive part is how much class Seton Hall acted with after being screwed out of the national championship by one of the worst calls in NCAA Tournament history. Today, you'd have coaches blasting the refs in their press conference, players complaining on social media, and fans sending the refs death threats and attempting to destroy their unrelated personal businesses (hi Kentucky).
That SHU team handled it well, and as Gaze said in the ESPN story, he's actually more angry about the call now than when it happened. It's unfortunate that Michigan has the banner (though with a big blue asterisk) because everyone who saw that game knows which team deserved it. And considering we later learned what kind of a man Steve Fisher is, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he had something to do with that call.
Don't read this part then.Gaze told me that when he was back in the U.S. a few years later for another exhibition tour with the Australian team, he played a game that was officiated by Clougherty, and that Clougherty approached him and told him he had made a mistake by calling that foul on Greene.
“I told him, ‘Oh, no worries, mate,’” Gaze told me. “I thought it was very classy of him to say that.”
And? What part of my post are you trying to dispute, exactly?
NJRedman wrote:
He isn;t disputing anything, he's adding to it.
Hall2012 wrote:NJRedman wrote:
He isn;t disputing anything, he's adding to it.
I guess I misunderstood what he meant by "Don't read this part then."
admin wrote:Hall2012 wrote:NJRedman wrote:
He isn;t disputing anything, he's adding to it.
I guess I misunderstood what he meant by "Don't read this part then."
I think because it would piss you off.
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