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Message: [QUOTE="bennyskid, post: 3332968, member: 9471"] You can't prove malice from mere statistics. Every ref has their tendencies. If it just so happens that those tendencies intersect with your team's tendencies, then it will look to you as though they are biased against your team. For example, some refs are really tight on calling moving screens, so if your team runs a lot of screens you are going to get a lot of calls against you. It doesn't mean the ref doesn't like your team, and it doesn't even mean that she's a bad ref. In fact, she might be *perfect* on those calls. Stanford has a particular defensive style. (OSU is pretty similar, and I note that at least one Beaver fan also cast some aspersion on Missy). You don't have to assume that Missy hates Stanford (or Scott Rueck) just because that style of play intersects with her particular focus. [/QUOTE]