Billy Tubbs No Matter How Bad the Officiating Is...

[buddaman200522]

and he get's a technical foul

[pricetagok]

Watch the reaction of the guy in top left corner of the frame when Billy makes his comment.

The refs should have given themselves a "T" for handing a microphone to Billy Tubbs in the heat of the moment like that. After all I'm sure they had already heard him say over the years, what did they expect him to do?

[coldsooner]

He was the best. Coach had a lot more class then he ever got credit for.

[hichcoc]

Yeah..I remember the game...the officiating was a complete joke that first half..OU went lights out shortly afterwards. We were way too great and talented to had not won the title in '88..Still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

H~

[ed2kou1]

@hichcoc Yeah I agree. IMO the 88 team, is the greatest team to never win a championship! Boomer

[tallybo]

Billy Tubbs, my hero!! While at OU I had to interview a coach for a class, most chose high school coaches, but I decided I'd try for Tubbs...he didn't know me at all but was more than happy to help out a student. I will always respect him for that.

[BOOMEROU4]

God Bless Billy Tubbs

[Arlech5]

I remember this game, and while OU did indeed win, nobody "killed" Mizzou (unless you consider a couple points victory in OT as a "killing"), and Mizzou was not #1 at the time. Nonetheless, it was a classic game, even without Tubbs' officiating comment....that just made it even more memorable! :-)

[thegorch]

great coach---especially his mastery during the '88 finals. r o c k c h a l k

[TusPapi]

@thegorch

OU already beat up Kansas twice that year. Every dog finds a bone now and then. BOOMER

[RockChalkNation1]

@TusPapi Who cares what happened in the regular season? No one cares about or remembers that. What people do remember is Danny and the Miracles not Billy Tubs and the disappointing Sooners.

[TusPapi]

@RockChalkNation1

And that's why they call them the Miracles b/c it was a miracle you were even in that game. lol

If people don't remember Billy Tubbs, why are you commenting on a video about Billy Tubbs?

[BOOMEROU4]

God Bless Billy Tubbs

[bradyjeff]

Im a sooner fan and i remember throwing stuff around i was so pissed at the refs and us. When he mic'ed up and said that i started yelling lol. we were trailing big time and made a helluva run. That was about the Loudest i had ever seen that place. My favorite player was Stacey King.

[rjholla420]

@wereHOTyourNOT right there with ya. as a kid all i ever wanted to do was play for billy tubbs. my favorite player to this day is still dave sieger.

[xsing4life]

wow he is so funny i love him like hes my grandpa!!...oh yea...i love you biddie!!!

[atha2k2]

classic

[btimsah]

lmao.. that never gets old.

[wereHOTyourNOT]

OMG!!! i love billy tubbs i would do anything to meet him if i could it would make my life!!! if you LOVE billy Tubbs post a comment telling me!!!!

[code05]

I'm too young to have seen this game. Was the officiating really that bad or was he just being a smart ass

[SuperDaveOkie]

I was there. The officiating WAS that bad, but that isn't why this is so awesome. OU was going through the motions and losing. Billy wanted the officials better calls. But it woke the team up and we killed #1 Missouri. Cost Billy $100,000, which he's been rumored to say was money well spent.

[Stink808]

I remember watching that game.  Those were the best days of Big 8 BBall in my opinion.

[floridaboy44]

I was watching this game on ESPN. It was funny then, and it still is funny almost 20 years later. Tubbs' teams were fun to watch; they'd regularly score over 100 points.

[fumbleruski3000]

I was watching this game, too.

Bob Knight had done virtually the same thing (taken the public address mic and admonished the crowd for throwing things) at Indiana just the week before or so. I was in attendance at that game. I've been telling this story for years, saying that Tubbs got a technical foul for doing the same thing he'd seen Knight do. I had forgotten that Tubbs said "regardless of how terrible the officiating is!" HA!

[nickeleye9]

I'm a Mizzou fan, and that's still awesome.

[SuperDaveOkie]

In that case, I'll have to say Norm was fun to watch, too.

[soonersam90]

Man I wish I was alive back then. It would have been fun to watch Billy Ball in person.

[SFFOOL76]

I never got to see them in person. However they played a home and home series against Loyola Marymount vs. Oklahoma and the games had maybe 250 point combined both games. But yeah OKLAHOMA in retrospect, they were cocky and fun as hell to watch on tv and played a tough schedule

[SuperDaveOkie]

I was at the game against American where they scored 97 in the first half, winning 173-101. From the stands, we couldn't believe we didn't make it to 200 that night. Mookie Blaylock wouldn't let them past their own free throw line. When asked about running up the score he relied, "If they don't like it, they should get better."

[mrkingt]

ahhh the billy tubbs era, he was a great coach and he had some great players. I still remember when he lead them to the national title game.

[darthlauderdale]

Awesome

[wildcardalan]

Saying what every coach really wants to say...

CLASSIC! :-D