So did the NCAA supervisor of officials give the game to Duke...

[fishwater99]

Adams said he saw the broadcast angle only after the referees left the scorer's table, and considered taking an unprecedented step -- calling the officials back over to the monitor -- before deciding against it.


"I saw it after they had left the monitor, and actually thought about: Is it in my prerogative to get up, run over the table, buzz the buzzer and tell them to come back and look?" Adams said. "That's how critical I thought the play was, and concluded that this is a job for the guys on the floor and I've never done this before, why would I do it tonight and perhaps change the balance of the game?"

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12640009/ncaa-official-refs-see-tv-broadcast-view-bounds-video-replay

[maroonmania]

Adams said he saw the broadcast angle only after the referees left the scorer's table, and considered taking an unprecedented step -- calling the officials back over to the monitor -- before deciding against it.


"I saw it after they had left the monitor, and actually thought about: Is it in my prerogative to get up, run over the table, buzz the buzzer and tell them to come back and look?" Adams said. "That's how critical I thought the play was, and concluded that this is a job for the guys on the floor and I've never done this before, why would I do it tonight and perhaps change the balance of the game?"

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12640009/ncaa-official-refs-see-tv-broadcast-view-bounds-video-replay

This guy questioned whether he should do it because he might "change the balance of the game" BY GETTING THE CALL CORRECT? This guy is a complete joke. I guess if he had evidence of a guy's innocence after a jury had already given a verdict he would just let the the guy hang to avoid disrupting the system.

[sleepy dawg]

Then there's this, which just came out:

Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of the men's basketball championship, said on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" on Wednesday that officials actually did see the same video replay that viewers at home saw on the questionable out-of-bounds call in the national title game, contradicting what John Adams, the NCAA's supervisor of officials, had said Tuesday.

[sleepy dawg]

Also, John Adams has been fired.

[Mjoelner34]

Fired or retired?
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2014-07-17/john-adams-step-down-april-2015-national-coordinator