Sunday, February 27, 2011

Crying out for Consistency

One of my biggest pet peeves is inconsistency. whether it be a form of technology, or sports, or even someone driving in front of me; I long for consistency. I am very passionate about Purdue sports, mainly basketball. One of the most annoying things that I've noticed especially this year, is the inconsistency with the referees. I'm not an irate fan ranting on how refs are making us lose games, we're still winning games. But this year there have some extremely poor officiating going on during games, mostly against Purdue. If Jared Sullinger from Ohio State gets the ball in the post, and gets bumped while shooting he gets a foul called and goes to the line, however of JaJuan Johnson gets the ball in the post and has his arm grabbed and ripped away from the ball while shooting, the refs seem to swallow their whistles.

Inconsistency between teams isn't the only thing I have noticed. There's even inconsistency between the halves of games. During the first half of a big ten game, people will be bumped and pushed and on the floor and nothing is called, but the very second the teams come out after half time, you look at the person with the ball the wrong way and you get called for a blocking foul. This isn't just my opinion, today while watching the Purdue Michigan State game the announcers made the very same comment about more fouls being called in the second half. so Please stay consistent!

-Jason Miller

1 comment:

  1. how do you relate that to Small Group Communication specifically? Give an example.

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