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No, but it IS a huge scam. Young black athletes put their health and lives on the line (for bball and football) but aren't compensated becauseit's amateur sports
I know the "blame the refs" schtick gets old but I just watched the NCAA le game and holy was that the worst officiated college game I've ever seen. Great game no less, but that was embarrassing. Almost thought I was watching a Lakers game for a second.
But seriously, there were countless blown calls on both sides, but it just seemed like Louisville got some really favorable calls at crucial points in the game. Really changed the momentum. Glad I'm not a Michigan fan or I'd be pissed.
And how is THIS a foul? Best block I've seen in a while.
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No, but it IS a huge scam. Young black athletes put their health and lives on the line (for bball and football) but aren't compensated because
Two of the refs in this game were from the Big East, and two of the refs in the Louisville/Wichita State game were from the Big East... Emmert absolutely called in the big guns to rig this for Louisville, tbh....
Coaches earn millions to win through March Madness. Meanwhile C-Webb and the Fab Five had their championship stricken off the books all because of some trouble with a booster.
Gabriel Morency @sportsrage32m
3 refs. was the white guy with slick greasy hair just like pittino. probably his ing neighbor or something.
Gabriel Morency @sportsrage41m
Don't want to be a ungracious loser but I hope that ref lives a miserable life before dying lonely death.
it seemed like a Stern job, with the fibula cracking fairy tale ending.
Michigan was in the bonus forever in the second half.
You guys really have to stop with the crying about the refs thing
When you say "great game" what do you mean, exactly? That was probably one of the worst basketball games I've seen in a while... sure the crowd was loud and vibrant, but they were not playing.
It just felt like I was watching Vagisilis Spanoulis play in the NBA again, tbh
Yet the momentum-shifting blown calls all favored Louisville, especially that bogus foul call on Burke's clean block.... not to mention, Han should have been fouled out, not allowed to stay in the game and hit daggers....
It doesn't matter if they were in the bonus if the refs don't blow the whistle, it was just a hollywood ending story
You guys really have to stop with the crying about the refs thing
Which championship?
Maybe they won that game against North Carolina?
Not Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayliss
Refs called a foul on Trey Burke for shaking Peyton Siva's hand too hard after the game.
The officiating really was horrible though. It was severely inconsistent in the first half especially with handchecks, calling some ticky tack ones and not calling some obvious ones. And there were several blatantly missed calls that officials shouldn't miss in a national championship game. In a really close game, 1 or 2 calls can make a huge difference in the outcome. If it's a tough call to make either way, you kind of just have to live with it. But there were just some really bad missed or outright wrong calls made that proved to be big. The missed goaltend call, the Burke block, and giving Han 's 4th foul to Harrell who wasn't even really in the play are almost unforgivable calls in a game like this. So yeah, I'm a bitter Michigan fan.
You guys really have to stop with the crying about the refs thing
But it is what it is. History won't remember about officiating. They'll just remember that Louisville won and Michigan lost. So whatever.
Was this call important somehow ?
I don't believe the game was rigged, but Louisville did benefit from the officiating. The foul call on Burke's clean block was ridiculous. Great game though.
Bad calls on both siides. Some more obvious than others.
Chalk it up as karmic payback for that bull call against Seton Hall that put Rumeal Robinson on the line back in '89.
Why do people call this a "Stern job" when calling games in favor of what's gonna be the best storyline exists all over sports?
The NFL did it this year the minute Ray Lewis announced he was gonna retire and started going nuts with the jeebo shtick. The Ravens' D starts randomly playing well after getting lit up to end the regular season largely because of how physical their secondary was allowed to be in coverage.
In 2009 the Saints win the superbowl and it's spun as a
Another NFL example is the 2005 season when the refs shamelessly favored Pittsburgh over Seattle because Jerome Bettis was gonna retire and the superbowl was being played
This year in college football the refs and the BCS gave Notre Dame a huge blow job all season because Manti Te'o's
Meanwhile I can't think of an NBA playoffs in recent memory that was called in favor of some bull overly sentimental storyline. They're the league that has by far the least amount of
Finally, don't blame the leagues that do this. Blame the re ed American population that has a fetish for extremely cheesey, overly-sentimental and cliche jeebo stories that inspire them because they convince themselve it's confirmation a mythical man in the sky is watching over us. They're the reason this happens so much.
There's only a handful of games in all of sports that were w/o a doubt fixed:
2002 WCF Game 6
2005 SuperBowl
2007 WCSF Game 3
2012 Seahawks@Niners game--wasn't "fixed" per se, but it was the most obvious case of point-shaving at the end by Harbaugh.
and last but not least...Neil O'Donnell--he's still the posterboy for fixed games.
Superbowl XL between the Steelers and Seahawks was terrible too when Seattle got screwed all game.
No conspiracy, the refs just suck major
I meant that SB...it was the 2005 season but 2006 playoffs. The Pats-Eagles game wasnt fixed the year before...that was just a black qb choking and vomiting in the big game, per par.
Are you serious or is this sarcasm? I never can tell on this board. They're compensated. It's called a free college education. Whether they give a damn about academics is up to them. Given that maybe 1% of them actually go on to make money playing basketball, it'd probably be a good idea to take advantage of the compensation.No, but it IS a huge scam. Young black athletes put their health and lives on the line (for bball and football) but aren't compensated because
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