It is not ineptitude. It’s intentional. The B10 employs the refs they do for a reason, there are no accidents in hiring and assigning these guys.Regardless of the W, these Big10 refs never fail to surprise me with their ineptitude. That was an absolute clown show to both sides. The mid-play stoppage while Curbelo was down made no sense, the foul on Jake (which took place well before the shot) while the 3 point shot went down for an additional 1-1(a 5 point swing opportunity, are you kidding?) was brutal, and the 3 second call was perplexing.
Just as a matter of perspective todays crew chief - Larry Scirotto - was formely police chief in Pittsburgh. He was fired (ahem retired early) while under investigation for corruption. He was paying contracts to a company that was not performing any services. A young officer discovered the payments during an internal audit and was told to drop it. The auditor ended up resigning under threat of retaliation and then sued the police department. Larry “retired“ shortly after the lawsuit was filed.
He was blacklisted from obtaining another job until this year when he got the job as police chief in ft lauderdale within the last year. Well guess what just happened THIS WEEK - HE FIRED THE AUDITOR WHO WAS INVESTIGATING HIM FOR CORRUPTION IN FT LAUDERDALE.
This is all publicly verifiable - just search his name with “Pittsburgh“ and “ft lauderdale”.