Great Article on Buffalo Game

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:17 am

Buffalo News writer really nails the story. Even mentions the buzzer banging from Witherspoon. And, what the situation really says about MAC basketball.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20 ... 016373.asp

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:32 am

Good read... unfortunately.

tim94064 · Post by **tim94064** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:34 pm

Kudos to the Buffalo beat writer.....excellent review.

Everything about this entire situation was bad......inluding not shaking hands after the game.

JWEIII · Post by **JWEIII** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:09 pm

We got jobbed. So...

The "win" would not saved Dan's job. Neither team has any post season potential (meaning the MAC tourney).

Clearly, the officials took a win away. No question. But, so what?

Just a black eye for the league.

Meh.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:54 pm

tim94064 wrote:Kudos to the Buffalo beat writer.....excellent review.

Everything about this entire situation was bad......inluding not shaking hands after the game.

It's amazing that someone could analyze that situation and pick out not shaking hands as the most notable injustice.

Put yourself in Dan Dakich's shoes. Would you want to shake hands with Reggie Witherspoon after that game? I wholeheartedly believe in sportsmanship, handling yourself in a dignified manner win, lose or draw and setting a good example. I also believe that the most sportsmanlike person in the history of the world would have to swallow hard before extending their hands after that fiasco. Would we all feel better if our coach channeled Ghandi for a moment and decided to reach out and touch someone? Perhaps. But maybe, just maybe, the team wasn't in a hand-shaking kind of mood at that particular time and shouldn't have been forced to a phony display of camraderie after the ridiculous events that had just taken place. But no, there must be government-mandated niceness. A cooling off period of 15 minutes or a few days would have seemed appropriate, but that wasn't in the sacred rulebook.

What the hand-shaking nuts don't recognize is the nature of competition and the emotions that these games generate. You train year round, lift weights, watch film, take thousands of jump shots, endure hour upon hour of grueling practice and then see a victory taken away by a guy with a whistle after Reggie Witherspoon threw a hissy fit. Again, a handshake would have been sweet in a perfect, robotic world without any emotional elements factoring into play, and maybe that's why the rule was designed in the first place. Unfortunately, coaches and players are human, and I'm not ready to penalize them for it in this particular instance.

PGY Tiercel · Post by **PGY Tiercel** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:39 pm

Not shaking hands after the end of the OT is one thing, however, The team running off and not shaking hands at the "end" of regulation is another issue. I understand it is sometimes done, but BG had won the game why not begin to walk over and shake hands. At least it signifies to the refs you think the game is over, and it tells buffalo "congrats you are now the worst in the MAC". The point of the reporter was that if BG stayed to shake hands after "winning", Buffalo would not have won.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:41 pm

PGY Tiercel wrote:The point of the reporter was that if BG stayed to shake hands after "winning", Buffalo would not have won.

Right you are.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:16 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:
PGY Tiercel wrote:The point of the reporter was that if BG stayed to shake hands after "winning", Buffalo would not have won.
Right you are.

And that is what I said right after the incident happened. The officials screwed up, but our guys were not right to just run off the court. I've seen plenty of teams come into Anderson Arena and beat us the last couple years, seems to me they usually shake hands afterwards and not running immediately to the lockerroom.

IMO, this is one of those situations where everyone screwed up, and it cost us a win.

tim94064 · Post by **tim94064** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:18 pm

Ditto ~

BleedOrange · Post by **BleedOrange** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:00 pm

hammb wrote:
orangeandbrown wrote:
PGY Tiercel wrote:The point of the reporter was that if BG stayed to shake hands after "winning", Buffalo would not have won.
Right you are.
And that is what I said right after the incident happened. The officials screwed up, but our guys were not right to just run off the court. I've seen plenty of teams come into Anderson Arena and beat us the last couple years, seems to me they usually shake hands afterwards and not running immediately to the lockerroom.

IMO, this is one of those situations where everyone screwed up, and it cost us a win.

Should we shake hands after a game? Yes, of course.

Does not shaking hands provide rationale for what happened? No. Should one conclude that "it's best to stay on the court for a little while after the game and shake and carouse just in case the refs put time back on the clock or do something else within their discretion." ???

What happened is still a total crock, bottom line. There's no point in trying to explain it away.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:31 pm

Of course it doesn't provide a rationale for what happened. Had we shaken hands as is the normal custom, the whole thing probably would have been averted.