So the elbow that caused.flips cut was a basketball play? It is not spud webb out there. What f'in basketball play calls for your elbow to be that high?
Listen, fudge packer started the whole Duke gets all the calls mantra nationally in 2001 (and if you know the whole story, him going off was absurd). I usually can admit most years Duke gets a game where they get an assist where i think the whisle was a little bit in our favor. Where is it this year contrasting with yesterday, at VT, and at UVA?
In NCAA basketball, stop blaming players for selling fouls (aka flopping). Yes they sell calls, but nine times out of ten, they actually are offensive fouls. But the refs do not call it unless it is sold. That is all on the refs. You have coaches out there (Huggy Bear, Pitino, Barnes) who foul the sh!t out of you then raise all holy hell if the foul count is different. Then all of a sudden they are allowed to be as physical as crap (see Barnes complaining about every foul or our loss in the round of 32 to WVU). That is on the officials. I do not blame them one bit ufor the Houston Auburn or MD WVU ft contest.
What stinks is march madness and the NIT is the only time of year the NCAA can do something with refs being independent contracters. But we dont care if your shite as long as you enforce some arbitrary rule de jour (like coaching box in 08), you'll get games. If those officials have not been told their services are not needed for the rest of the tournament yet the NCAA is even more fixed than I thought.
And what is the point of an official they can come in with comments and it is all some version of "the official got it right." Just once I want to hear "you know what, that was BS."