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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 5317824, member: 26"] I agree 100% with this. Different example that most UConn fans will recall - games against UCF back in the day when Coach Abe was at the helm were ugly like rugby scrums. UConn plays tight defense but works super hard not to foul. UCF played overly physical and dirty in the opinion of many. You would expect in a game for them to get called for like 40 fouls to UConn's 10, but it never worked out that way. The mantra of coaches in situations like that was "the refs will never call all the fouls so just go out and hold, hit, push, elbow, grab etc.". I think that's buII$hit and if 2 players foul out in the first quarter, you bet your @ss that the team will stop fouling. Back to the W, some teams just DO foul more. Others spend a lot of time playing tight defense mostly without fouling. I suspect that the better teams will be called for less fouls because the lesser teams try to be more physical to "even things up". Quinn needs to send a tape to the head of the refs with every example she is talking about and not just whine that "Skyler didn't get any calls". There was a pretty horrible foul call on Gabby after the Wheeler/Plum fiasco where Gabby played incredible defense, went straight up with her arms vertical, and was called for the foul. Yuck. Side note - that out of bounds play where Wheeler tapped the ball while on defense and it was obvious to everyone with eyes that it bounced off Plum's hip and went out of bounds. But the call was not overturned. The announcers were speechless and one even commented "well I guess the refs are just opposed to overturning the call of one of their coworkers". That's complete crap as well. This is one of the downsides to more viewership and attention to the league. Really bad reffing is going to be way more noticed and talked about. I hope the league does something about it. [/QUOTE]

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