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		By: Teach Me How To Jimmer		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Could agree more with the two above comments. The players did decide that game: by committing those dumb fouls. The refs did an excellent job at the end of that Pitt/Butler game.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could agree more with the two above comments. The players did decide that game: by committing those dumb fouls. The refs did an excellent job at the end of that Pitt/Butler game.</p>
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		By: Jim Squire		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Matt B. is dead-on correct.  To swallow their whistles on those two particular plays (especially the first one) would be to commit the very crime you accuse them of committing by blowing their whistles.  You have it exactly backwards, Mr. Baumgartner.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt B. is dead-on correct.  To swallow their whistles on those two particular plays (especially the first one) would be to commit the very crime you accuse them of committing by blowing their whistles.  You have it exactly backwards, Mr. Baumgartner.</p>
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		By: Matt B.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think not calling the fouls would have &quot;let the players&quot; decide the game in the Butler-Pitt game. Butler clearly blocked Pitt on that inbound play. With two seconds and not touching the ball until half court, Pitt should have been able to get the ball at least close to the three point line for a shot. If the refs let that play go, they would have been relegated to a 35 foot heave at best, and that&#039;s only if Pitt was able to hold onto the ball. Butler illegally stopped Pitt from getting a better shot, and letting them get away with it would have been completely unfair to Pitt. 

Look at the next play. Let&#039;s say they don&#039;t call a foul on Robinson and by some miracle, he&#039;s able to knock the ball up and out of Howard&#039;s hands. Then by some bigger miracle that ball goes in the net. How is it possibly fair that Butler loses on an illegal play. In your write-up you basically acknowledge that both plays WERE fouls. While it might seem right not to call them, it&#039;s a complete disservice to the team who got fouled to let them go. Many people complain that refs have no consistency, and then when they try to have it at the end of a game, there are cries for refs to be purposefully inconsistent. That&#039;s crazy. I understand the gripes about having a 4-second five count, not knowing the proper back court violation rules, and not going to the monitor to check the time when it is allowed. Those aren&#039;t judgment calls and HAVE to be made correctly, but the refs have to be able to call the game in terms of fouls at the end. If you tell the refs not to call light fouls, what&#039;s to stop coaches from having their players defend ridiculously tight in end-game scenario&#039;s knowing that they won&#039;t get called for anything.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think not calling the fouls would have &#8220;let the players&#8221; decide the game in the Butler-Pitt game. Butler clearly blocked Pitt on that inbound play. With two seconds and not touching the ball until half court, Pitt should have been able to get the ball at least close to the three point line for a shot. If the refs let that play go, they would have been relegated to a 35 foot heave at best, and that&#8217;s only if Pitt was able to hold onto the ball. Butler illegally stopped Pitt from getting a better shot, and letting them get away with it would have been completely unfair to Pitt. </p>
<p>Look at the next play. Let&#8217;s say they don&#8217;t call a foul on Robinson and by some miracle, he&#8217;s able to knock the ball up and out of Howard&#8217;s hands. Then by some bigger miracle that ball goes in the net. How is it possibly fair that Butler loses on an illegal play. In your write-up you basically acknowledge that both plays WERE fouls. While it might seem right not to call them, it&#8217;s a complete disservice to the team who got fouled to let them go. Many people complain that refs have no consistency, and then when they try to have it at the end of a game, there are cries for refs to be purposefully inconsistent. That&#8217;s crazy. I understand the gripes about having a 4-second five count, not knowing the proper back court violation rules, and not going to the monitor to check the time when it is allowed. Those aren&#8217;t judgment calls and HAVE to be made correctly, but the refs have to be able to call the game in terms of fouls at the end. If you tell the refs not to call light fouls, what&#8217;s to stop coaches from having their players defend ridiculously tight in end-game scenario&#8217;s knowing that they won&#8217;t get called for anything.</p>
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