From the glorious land of California!
One of our Texas collegiate coaches shared with me about his recent trip to California...
Seems that the ITA official standing at the net called a footfault in the deciding doubles match during the latter stages of the match. Asked for an explanation, he said, "it wasn't his foot on the line. It was his knee that was in the air over the line when he hit the ball!"
Later in the singles match the same official overruled a far sideline call. When questioned about this and asked why he didn't get up in the chair, he said, "I can see better standing at the net post."
Just when we think we have seen and heard it all, we hear that infamous call, "Go west young man, go west!"
5 comments:
WOW!! I'm thinking that if the kid has a good serve that half the upper body is over the line when the ball is struck. Think how much shorter the matches will be if we start calling this.
How could this happen in California when they have the self-appointed ITA guru personally training and evaluating all those officials? Shocked!! Just Shocked!!
Damn - it sounds like this official came from the same family line as that old home cookin official doing Tulsa matches. I bet they haven't taken an eye test or either have way too much lead poisoning and can't reason any more.
probably Nor Cal where they pick and chose what rules to follow.
I was watching the OU - TCU match yesterday and saw Oklahoma's infamous official at work. The OU coach was not happy about his performance. Wonder if his days of working collegiate events outside of Tulsa are over? We can only hope and pray for justice. Maybe Tulsa will see the light and cut him loose as well.
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