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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 2008597, member: 7511"] I think it's more than simply, "The refs are bad." The game has changed. Players are bigger, stronger and faster. Contact is a given. It is such an incredibly fine line to determine the difference between incidental contact and contact that creates an unfair advantage. The refs have an incredibly difficult job, and on occasion they are going to get it wrong. The one thing you would like to see is consistency, and even that goal is very difficult to achieve. In the end, my admonition to any player who feels that the refs may have cost them a game as the result of one or two bad calls is, "Why did you let the refs decide the game?" That may seem unfair, but think about UConn's incredible run. How many games might have been decided by the refs, had the Huskies not made a sufficient number of plays so that the refs had no impact on the final outcome? Can anyone ever remember a game when Geno blamed a loss on the refs? [/QUOTE]