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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 957456, member: 87"] I'm a little confused by the prevailing themes on the board. People are quite honestly losing their minds over the refs (and Jay Bilas for some reason). I guess this is partly a general release after not getting to meltdown after a loss since the final four and now having 2 losses in a row? The way I see it, yeah there may have been a few calls we disagree with in this game, but it was way more fairly called than I thought it would be. We have been screwed WAY worse in WAY bigger games. Recent games, like Ohio State, Marquette, and Butler. Those were clear instances of big problems or mistakes having a huge impact on us getting a Final Four, Sweet 16, and Elite 8 respectively. I'm not sure why coach went so crazy here and not in those games. I suspect it was calculated. I suppose he was laying the ground work of us not laying down for Tobacco Road home calls, I dunno. The guy has coached almost 1400 games and never been tossed. That tells me it wasn't an accident. It is really curious though because he knows we still had a chance to win if he doesn't get the techs, and we know JB plays to win at all costs in every game. Guy would light himself on fire to get a November win against Colgate, so blowing up this game to make some strategic statement seems just as out of character as him him just going bat crap crazy like he did. I suspect some of the nutty perspectives, conspiracy theories, etc we've seen here are partially egged on by JB's reaction which we really don't know the motivations for. On top of all this, after playing very poorly for a few weeks, seriously calling into question how long of a tourney run we could realistically put together, they showed last night that they can still compete with anybody, anywhere abd have a chance to win. We did that still not hitting on all cylinders and got proof that we'll have Baye back for our run. lots of good came out of last night. Anyway, I'm confused by the whole thing. [/QUOTE]

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