Dismiss Ed Hightower and end poor Big Ten officiating

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""I know I suck""

"He is just horrendous"

"You've made Big Ten basketball the most boring event to watch. I don't pay to watch free throws."

"Someone alert the FBi"

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"He is a mockery of the game. Fire HIM!!!!!!!!"

"It would be a much better league without Ed"

"After watching our last 2 games officiating by Ed Hightower it is clear how incompetent he is. Last game against PSU we were the recipients of poor calls in general. We got our butts kicked tonight against Purdue, but the officials were just as bad. My qu"

"Even I couldn't f*** s*** up that bad."

"This is a petition to basically put the outcome of the game back into the player's hands. The way it should be. Fire Hightower!"

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"I have been an Iowa fan for years, and thought that he has always unfairly treated Iowa, most recently by getting them in foul trouble early on...now I saw the Ohio State Michigan State game today, and Ohio State was screwed. This man needs to go."

"Ed Hightower has it in for Ohio State and Coach Thad Matta...Today's travesty by him against us in the Purdue game is proof positive...I've never seen a bigger screw job than that. They made no bones about it that they wern't going to treat OSU the same a"

"I am a IA HS basketball ref. There is no room for his showboat antics in a game. We are there to see the players, not the officials."

"Ed Hightower is probably the worste Ref in college basketball, he calls needless fouls and seems to have to be in the spot light and let everyone know he is the boss in every game he refs."

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"I'm still too disgusted with the MSU/Wisconsin game to put together a coherent sentence about how poorly Ed Hightower does his job."

"He is bad."

"Horse sh&t job all season, Ed."

"Right thing needs to be done."

"Hightower and his crews have been a failure for years"