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Message: [QUOTE="longislandcuse, post: 1301409, member: 937"] I checked out a Duke message board and even they admitted they got the benefit of a few calls towards the end of the game. They, like the ref defenders here, say that it makes up for some calls that went our way earlier in the game... I again ask you, it happened against UNC and it happened again against Duke, would you rather get a few calls early in the game or get some egregious fouls/non-fouls late in the game go your way? I'm taking those end of second half game changers every time... Nothing that even the hardest Duke fan can claim evened last nights game out can actually even out a Cuse down 7 non call/call that took 2 points away from us and gave them to Duke under ten minutes left and a down 4 non call/call that kept Okafor in the game and took 2 free throws from us and gave 2 points to Duke. Bottom Line.. We're the only school I watch that gets consistently punked by officiating at home. There is a reason home court counts for a few points in gambling, I guess our home court fan support at the dome should be cancelled out by the eventual poor anti-home team officiating that will surely follow when Vegas factors in our spreads. Rak played bad, no two ways around it, but there is ZERO chance they let Okafor get beat up like that without a few more whistles, and this is some every game type ish with Rak. It's getting old. The fallacy that refs don't decide games is just that, a complete fallacy. Refs don't decide games between teams that are mismatches but when you take two teams, evenly matched, and yes, for all our warts, we are pretty evenly matched with the UNC and Dukes of this year, the refs, more often than not in CBB decide the outcome. You can always say, well if we did this better or that better but we're not perfect and neither is Duke, it's up to the officials to keep the game dependant on the talent and coaching and they just don't. With their bad calls one way and/or total disregard for the players knowing What a foul or not foul is, they determine games between evenly matched teams. Saying they don't is a fallacy. [/QUOTE]

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