Kentucky fan thoughts

#76
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Lankykong said:
Officials were biased towards us in general due to home court advantage but not egregiously so. Wheeler wasn’t a foul, broadcast agreed after replay. Tshiebwe wasn’t playing well anyway and got away with a few before that. Hard to totally blame officiating when you basically lost by 20

We had some ticky tack calls against us also (mainly on Zeigler)
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The last part, refs make you lose by 1-4, not 13. They got dominated all night. It really never felt close
 
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Delmar said:
It has been my experience over the years that many KY fans think they never lose because of poor play or the other team just played better that night. To Calipari’s credit, he recognized exactly what happened and it wasn’t the refs.
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Here is a Rupture Rafters page that gives a fairly balanced appraisal of the game results from KY fans. Some typical over reactions, but overall accepting that the effort by the blue was not there last night. The words "we were curb stomped" appear somewhere in the long thread. “KENTUCKY @ TENNESSEE “ OFFICIAL THREAD
 
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VolDave53 said:
Here is a Rupture Rafters page that gives a fairly balanced appraisal of the game results from KY fans. Some typical over reactions, but overall accepting that they effort by the blue was not there last night. The words "we were curb stomped" appear somewhere in the long thread. “KENTUCKY @ TENNESSEE “ OFFICIAL THREAD
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Thanks. Glad there are at least a few that don’t have the Blue Blinders on.
 
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They’re just upset that a true freshman shut down their NPOY candidate. Also, a lanky slow white kid took him to the hole more than once and. Pretty embarrassing game for Oscar.
 
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VolDave53 said:
Here is a Rupture Rafters page that gives a fairly balanced appraisal of the game results from KY fans. Some typical over reactions, but overall accepting that they effort by the blue was not there last night. The words "we were curb stomped" appear somewhere in the long thread. “KENTUCKY @ TENNESSEE “ OFFICIAL THREAD
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Still looking for those positive posts on the play of their competition? All I saw was trash the officials, dog their players, complaining about the antiquated offense, and making light of the game. Pretty much exactly what I expected and we have much of the same crap on our game threads. We do however have some reasonable posters who recognize good play & players even when they’re not in orange.
 
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Volfansince1980 said:
Just curious what calls you think we got in the Arizona game? I was at that game, and for the most part a lot of those calls were due to Fulky attacking the rim. That's generally when teams get foul calls. Even Arizona's coach acknowledged as much.
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They called 28 fouls on Arizona that night. We definitely got some home cooking. The worst home cooking I've seen was against us at Miss St recently. That was ridiculous.
 
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Stoked said:
Complaining about refs is one of the most annoying things any fan can do. Yes there are terrible calls some games but they usually never fully decide a game. UK fans are awful about this. I understand if a ref blows a whistle on a final possession or so because yes that can decide a game but when you get beat by 10+ you simply just got outplayed.

I live in the heart of BBN and was proudly wearing my Vols gear yesterday. A few people blamed the refs for that beating lol. When we took our beating I just accepted that we got beat and outplayed.
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The only game that would cause me to disagree with you first statement would be the Music City Bowl. I was there and the side judge fully inserted himself in the outcome of the game. I will say that the refs missed some calls and I'll whine about it for a little bit, but they usually do not cause the final score of the game. The Music City Bowl final score was entirely on them. It was a TD. But, it's over. Can't keep crying about it. Just using it as an example for refs affecting the outcome of a game.
 
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ColinS said:
They called 28 fouls on Arizona that night. We definitely got some home cooking. The worst home cooking I've seen was against us at Miss St recently. That was ridiculous.
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If their strategy was to hack and abuse TN players assuming that the refs won’t continue calling nearly 30 fouls and that they’d even up the whistles, then that’s on them and Barnes did a great job alerting the refs to their BS strategy.
 
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TatudVol said:
The only game that would cause me to disagree with you first statement would be the Music City Bowl. I was there and the side judge fully inserted himself in the outcome of the game. I will say that the refs missed some calls and I'll whine about it for a little bit, but they usually do not cause the final score of the game. The Music City Bowl final score was entirely on them. It was a TD. But, it's over. Can't keep crying about it. Just using it as an example for refs affecting the outcome of a game.
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The MCB call won't be over for me till the league acknowledges that the call was not administered properly. I have never argued that the ref made the progress call, or that it was within his duties to do so. THE issue is that replay was available to prove that he spotted the ball where he wanted to apply his judgment by spotting the ball where he decided progress could be ruled instead of where the rule PLAINLY defines, the forward most point of advance WHEN THE PLAY IS RULED DEAD. That was the endzone. If when the play was over the ball never approached a first down or TD the bad application of the rule would not have been correctable. You don't get to review the difference between whether a ball is spotted properly if the difference is 4th and 2 or 4th and 1. Not good but it is what is written down and you would not have seen a rant from me.

I get particularly incensed with the it is a judgment call and NOT REVIEWABLE stance. SIMPLY NOT TRUE. All of this is in the RANT thread I started and won't repeat here.

I get even more fired up about the way they handled the review process. IF the game was stopped, and the period of time between the end of our play and spotting the ball for their series is there for all to see, Rule 12 clearly defines it must enter one of two processes with beginning announcements and ending announcements. Was not a coaches challenge, so there is only one other option. DID THAT HAPPEN? No way to set aside time to go give Coach the news without the game being defined as stopped. Short rule, go read it. Pay attention to 12-1 and12-3-3 e. to cover if it is reviewable along the way.

Letting them duck an admission on both counts just irks me. The result in the book will forever be the same. Got it. This should rank up there with the 5th down call years ago. Worse really, this was correctable with a correct replay process they passed on.
 
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LittleCat said:
People just post **** on here that literally is completely false and some of you idiots just gobble it up and regurgitate it. There were at least 7 or 8 fouls on UK in the 1st half by my memory.
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Whoa, Little Cat! No need for name calling. I didn't say that myself, I only posted that someone else said it. I barely can remember one game from the next. I would have to go watch a replay of the game to see if any of it is true, and I did say in my previous post, "if it was true". Let's be kind to each other.
 
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TatudVol said:
The only game that would cause me to disagree with you first statement would be the Music City Bowl. I was there and the side judge fully inserted himself in the outcome of the game. I will say that the refs missed some calls and I'll whine about it for a little bit, but they usually do not cause the final score of the game. The Music City Bowl final score was entirely on them. It was a TD. But, it's over. Can't keep crying about it. Just using it as an example for refs affecting the outcome of a game.
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And if Hooker doesn't fumble with 30 secs left at the end of the first half allowing Purdue to score that late TD, it doesn't go to OT. There was plenty of opportunity for the team to get it done in regulation and didn't.
 
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whobethis16 said:
And if Hooker doesn't fumble with 30 secs left at the end of the first half allowing Purdue to score that late TD, it doesn't go to OT. There was plenty of opportunity for the team to get it done in regulation and didn't.
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All we had to do was run the ball up the middle on first and goal from the 2 yard line in overtime. The Purdue defense was being gashed by the run over and over. One or two plays and it's an easy touchdown. We tried to get cute and got the QB sacked. I blame the play calling more than the bad call by the official, especially when you add in the pathetic attempt to get into field goal range at the end of regulation. It always feels good to look in other places beside the mirror but this one was on our coaching staff.
 
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ColinS said:
All we had to do was run the ball up the middle on first and goal from the 2 yard line in overtime. The Purdue defense was being gashed by the run over and over. One or two plays and it's an easy touchdown. We tried to get cute and got the QB sacked. I blame the play calling more than the bad call by the official, especially when you add in the pathetic attempt to get into field goal range at the end of regulation. It always feels good to look in other places beside the mirror but this one was on our coaching staff.
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Exactly. Yes, the call was bad, but to blame it on the L instead of the countless opportunities throughout the previous 60 minutes is asinine.
 
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ColinS said:
They called 28 fouls on Arizona that night. We definitely got some home cooking. The worst home cooking I've seen was against us at Miss St recently. That was ridiculous.
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And Fulky had 13 by attacking the rim. I think a lot of people mistake 'home cooking' for a team attacking the rim vs. a team settling for jump shots. I'm going off memory here, but I remember even discussing with Arizona fans at the game, that they were settling for a lot of jump shots. We shot the ball outside a lot early, but when they came back, we started going inside to Fulky. Just looked it up it was 28 to 16 on foul calls. I just don't remember even Arizona fans claiming home cooking was to blame. So I'm not going to minimize that game to prove some point.
 
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ColinS said:
All we had to do was run the ball up the middle on first and goal from the 2 yard line in overtime. The Purdue defense was being gashed by the run over and over. One or two plays and it's an easy touchdown. We tried to get cute and got the QB sacked. I blame the play calling more than the bad call by the official, especially when you add in the pathetic attempt to get into field goal range at the end of regulation. It always feels good to look in other places beside the mirror but this one was on our coaching staff.
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OK. Now I see what you're about. While all that is true, the officials still f'ed up. Call the game correctly. And yes they are to blame. They should take responsibility when they cost a team a game like they did in the Purdue game. Sounds like you're an apologist. You can babble about a bunch of nonsense regarding what we should have done. But at the end of the day, they blew a call where Wright clearly crossed the plain and his forward momentum was never stopped. Anyone that's played a down of football could see that. Madden fans and box score warriors are the only ones arguing that nonsense.
 
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