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SmootyGator · 02-20-2013, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by gator07

I agree. I think that the officiating was bad, but when you look at the game as a whole, I would estimate that they slightly favored UF after you add it all up.

Yes, they had a bunch of bad calls on them as well. We just happened to have one of the most egregious with the PY travel call. To me, it was a turning point for the end of the game. I'll get over the officiating... it's no big deal. What really irks me is the three missed front-end free throws. You can't do anything about bad officiating, but you can do something about piss-poor FT shooting. I hope we fix that soon.

wingtee · 02-20-2013, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SmootyGator

Yes, they had a bunch of bad calls on them as well. We just happened to have one of the most egregious with the PY travel call. To me, it was a turning point for the end of the game. I'll get over the officiating... it's no big deal. What really irks me is the three missed front-end free throws. You can't do anything about bad officiating, but you can do something about piss-poor FT shooting. I hope we fix that soon.

Agree with you smoot on all accounts

TampaGatorFan · 02-20-2013, 03:58 PM

Hit your damn FTs, guys, and you win last night, refs or no refs.

**maverick** · 02-20-2013, 04:07 PM

On the road you dont get the calls, works both ways. Cant do anything about refs so work on your game.

When spurrier came, defeated all superstitions, cant win at night, cant win on tv, cant win in old gator bowl because field was crooked== dont count on fair calls when on the road, if maintained 12 pt lead not a problem.

tommyuf21 · 02-20-2013, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by gator07

Here's one thing I've always wondered about basketball officiating: Why is it ok for refs in basketball to demonstrably make calls and get into the emotion/momentum of the game and feed into the crowd? Think of a guy driving strong to the hoop for a layup only for the ref to practically jump out to mid-court with multiple blows of the whistle, pausing dramatically to get all eyes on him then making a forceful charge call while the crowd goes nuts.

Everyone knows that the home team always get favorable calls, but why would the powers that be allow refs to even appear so blatantly biased/invested/emotionally caught up in the game?

Think of Driskel's long TD pass against USC that was called back. Could you imagine if the referee made the holding call in any kind of manner other than robotic?

You see it in baseball as well. Its just unbelievable to me that you wouldnt instruct your officials to be completely emotionless.

Many of them believe that they are part of the "show." They get caught up in the attention and they know the camera is on them.

A good official is one that noone knows is there and yet still does their job in a professional manner.

Brewski · 02-20-2013, 11:05 PM

It is such a cop out to blame the refs. If you are truly the better team you adjust and handle adversity. I don't believe the refs won the game. Missu was the better team last night.

gatormoe1 · 02-21-2013, 12:32 AM

Some of you are missing the point. The refs didn't make us lose by themselves, we obviously created a lot of our own demise. The point is, after we were up 13 the refs created an environment for Mizzu to get back into the game.

Even at the point where we had a 5 point lead and they call a "travel" on Young, which IMO turned the game over. Towards the end, we missed FT's and turned the ball over, but only after the refs allowed Mizzu back in the game with terrible call after terrible call.