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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2459636, member: 591"]
I don't know that I have noticed much of a degradation in the calls by the big names you cite.  Don't like Brian much, but don't think he's gotten any worse.  His problem IMHO is anticipation.  In general, while I do think there are some grudges, I don't think these folks are the ones that have them.

What every ref has is preconception - sometimes from years of watching a team, sometimes from their "scouting report" (yes, they don't walk out on the court not knowing who's who, although I have no idea how it is actually handled).  Rutgers has, to a large extent, always suffered under the "physical" reputation - and here's what I'm saying, it isn't that they weren't and aren't physical (and too much so at times), but that if something happens that could have been due to the RU player being too physical or not due to the RU player at all (opponent tripped, for example, over their own feet) - the refs  will assume that the RU player tripped the opponent, which of course is not always correct.

I get the 5 and 6 games a week thing, although I'm not sure it affects them as much as you think.

Unlike the folks you listed above, IMHO Dennis's ability had decreased before he retired.
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