Thanks for the thread.....yesterday was absolutely horrendous for both Florida and Alabama.
Truly....I can't remember a day when I was more infuriated at the apparent bias in officiating.
In our game, we started off with a huge lead over Kentucky and within' a couple minutes our leading scorer (Kevaughn Allen) who obviously had the hot hand had 2 fouls on him and Coach White had to send him to the bench.
Later in the game - second half - we were on a run and our 'catalyst player' - point guard Chris Chiozza, got 2 fouls back to back, subsequently giving him and our other point guard Kasey Hill both 4 fouls with significant time left to play. One of the fouls on Chiozza was when he briefly placed his hand on Monk's hip....that was all. Monk, as good as he is, really was getting a lot of favorably treatment.
And if you haven't seen it...the double technical when Kentucky's Briscoe, who already had a rep as a dirty player, back handed Allen across the face as time out was called and Allen of course gave him a little shove back. Briscoe IMHO should have been ejected - but instead a double technical was called. They even reviewed the play so they couldn't have missed Briscoe intentionally slapping Allen in his face.
Meanwhile throughout the game plenty of no calls when Florida players were getting mugged under the basket and in the paint. Plenty....
So - normally I try to refrain from making statements like we lost due to the biased officiating - mostly because that's not the only reason we lost the game - in 9 out of 10 cases.
But it sure sucks to see the players giving everything they have only to have the officials essentially cheating them out of a fair called game.
In other words...this cheats the players. And this goes for all players including the Tide in last night's game with the Aggies.