I'd be lying if I said I was appalled by an official - who had very clearly just missed an obvious call in a game defining situation - turning his back on a player who remained ridiculously even-keeled in trying to discuss what took place. The visual of an authoritative figure defiantly staring off into the corner with his arms crossed as if his mother just told him there would be no dessert until his vegetables were finished is simply too funny for me to find myself upset. Admittedly, it's ludicrously childish to do so, but hey...isn't everything the NCAA promotes aimed at convincing us that their billion dollar business model is actually nothing more than amateurism? As far as I am concerned, that inexcusable display of immaturity from a person who is paid to make sure young athletes mind their manners actually falls perfectly in line with the absurdity of the idea that there is nothing professional about college sports! In all seriousness though, it's not the idea of a referee "showing up" a participant that I find stupid, but rather the inevitable overreaction that would almost assuredly come if the roles were reversed. I don't watch enough college hoops to feel wholly educated on the past of Ted Valentine, but I have no problem assuming he's got a quick trigger in delivering technicals to any player who so much as waves a condescending hand in his direction. You want to make a joke out of your job then so be it, but you can't simultaneously be the type that becomes unnerved when you are on the opposite end of one. I like my sports with a little instigative mockery, but not when the source is an overly excitable arbiter with a superiority complex.
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