01-13-2020, 04:39 PM
I'm a little stunned at the observations regarding the refereeing at Sunday's game. From my seat [above and to the right of our bench, where I had a bird's-eye view of Lacie being fitted by the trainer for her mask] that game was ref'ed atrociously.
When the obviously more talented team in a fairly rough game ends up with something like one-fifth the number of free throws [not counting the two by Brown(?) right at the end], there's something wrong. There were multiple kicked balls that simply weren't called. There were at least two clear flops -- supposedly a point of emphasis this season, at least on the men's side -- which weren't called. I believe there was one quarter when NO fouls were called on Cal [again, in a game that was obviously fairly physical]. For virtually the entire game, Cal didn't set screens so much as utilize offensive line blocking that was, on many occasions, probably more effective than our football team's OL this season.
Maybe I was at a different game, but the refs in the one I watched did a very sub-par job...
When the obviously more talented team in a fairly rough game ends up with something like one-fifth the number of free throws [not counting the two by Brown(?) right at the end], there's something wrong. There were multiple kicked balls that simply weren't called. There were at least two clear flops -- supposedly a point of emphasis this season, at least on the men's side -- which weren't called. I believe there was one quarter when NO fouls were called on Cal [again, in a game that was obviously fairly physical]. For virtually the entire game, Cal didn't set screens so much as utilize offensive line blocking that was, on many occasions, probably more effective than our football team's OL this season.
Maybe I was at a different game, but the refs in the one I watched did a very sub-par job...