Practice method could help reduce Canes penalties

Aug 17, 2016

An interesting tidbit I've gathered is that Mark Richt brings in college officials every single day of practice. There are at least four referees in practice a day.

Even more interesting is that Richt has a full ACC officiating crew for scrimmages.

The frequent presence of refs in practice is not something that has been here in the past. Richt emphasizes to the officials that he wants them calling the practices just how they would a game.

Advantages?

1) This should hypothetically reduce Miami's penalties considering the players are correcting their mistakes in practice.

2) The power of familiarity with a referee is extremely underrated. These are the same ACC officials that the Canes players will see during the season at some point. If you're a defensive back, it doesn't hurt to know which officials let a bit more physicality go on when the ball is in the air.

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clg003

Aug 18, 2016

I hope he pays these guys nicely and puts them up in a killer hotel.

CUKIO34

Aug 18, 2016

All good till Miami plays in North Carolina. Then refs whistles seem to be coated with some sort of addictive drug.

Hurracanes

Aug 18, 2016

Chess>Cheeseburgers

NJshoreCane

Aug 18, 2016

It seems we will forever be paying for that '91 New Year's Day ash-kickin' in Texas.

Aug 18, 2016

brittle757 said:
TF was Golden doing here except stealing checks?!

snapping necks and cashing checks...POW!

NJshoreCane

Aug 18, 2016

brittle757 said:
TF was Golden doing here except stealing checks?!

Paid vacation.

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CaneFromPAinOH

Aug 19, 2016

This is HUGE! My High School Baseball Coach was best friends with the umpires around us and I was the starting Catcher. He would bring those umpires in during our scrimmages and I would learn the strike zones of each umpire, and even more importantly create relationships. I would even ask them advice on where to line up on certain pitches and situations, playing how "They" wanted me to play gave us a huge advantage.

I'm telling you right now we got a lot more borderline calls due to those relationships that we did not receive with other umpires. Also - zero times did our team ever argue a call that was close because we didn't want to ruin the relationship we built up. Umpires and referees know when they mess up - you don't have to remind them and they're most likely going to give you the nod on a close call later in the game for NOT arguing.

I'm not saying the umpire favored us, but having that level of comfortablility is SOOOOO underrated.

And kudos to everyone involved with this site - I've said this before, but this is absolutely phenominal to have being up North! GO CANES!

ghost2

Aug 19, 2016

Anybody know if our coaching staff has taken Ron Cherry to Benihana and given him "The Business" yet?

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COMOCANES23

Aug 23, 2016

We never did this under Golden or Shannon?

ThomasM

Aug 23, 2016

I thought we always had officials. This doesn't sound like anything new. My problem hasn't been the penalties we've committed, but the ones that were called that we didn't commit. Until we can figure out what the cause of that is, it won't really matter. We lead the country in BS calls last year. More than any season I can remember, in fact. Perhaps, and I hope this is the case, it was the ACC getting back at us for joining the ACC, then going cheap. We were supposed to come into the ACC and play for the ACC title every year. Instead we hired one bum after the next and never put a really competitive product on the field. So what does the ACC do? Hammer us with ticky tack officiating. Can't say we didn't deserve it, either. Here's hoping by hiring Richt, and a much better staff all around, they will pump the brakes a bit before reaching for their flags. We'll know soon...