Pat Adams loses at A and M despite his best efforts

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
They robots will need to figure out how to let touch fouls and meaningless fouls go or else games will turn into 4 hour free throw shooting contests. By the walk ons since everybody else will be fouled out.
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I’d imagine players would adjust their game.
 
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With evenly talented teams, depending where the game is played, it only takes a few calls or no calls to effect the outcome of a game. Refs are human and they will miss calls but in most instances, with honest refs, the calls will even out. If they don’t, the players know and it becomes a great advantage for the favored team or player. When I see this favoritism in calls, I immediately think money is involved. Nothing would surprise me today with the amount money at stake. JMO.
 
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Mightyvol said:
With evenly talented teams, depending where the game is played, it only takes a few calls or no calls to effect the outcome of a game. Refs are human and they will miss calls but in most instances, with honest refs, the calls will even out. If they don’t, the players know and it becomes a great advantage for the favored team or player. When I see this favoritism in calls, I immediately think money is involved. Nothing would surprise me today with the amount money at stake. JMO.
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VOLtaism said:
How do you call a foul after that shot was missed with .06 seconds? The game was over at that point.

I don't think the refs make calls favoring any team. I do believe they make calls based on what Vegas needs.
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Fair refereeing benefits Vegas. Any gambling conspiracy/scheme is going to hurt the books, not the customers.
 
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KTrain said:
You can question the refs on other games like A&M vs UK but if you do on any Vol game and even if it is warranted you have posters coming on taking up for the officials almost every time. I'm thinking Ref relatives or former refs or its hurting them in some way. They will try to humiliate ppl with things like be a man, part of the game. So, I guess its so hard to get officials and the NCAA will not pony up the money to get some full time officials with higher pay and accountability or we just have to accept mediocre officials from time to time. Some that look like they are on the take like Tim Donaghy in betting scandals of 2007.
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Ppl forget we had a ref get suspended after the LSU game a few years ago for his obvious bias towards them
 
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TooLegit2Quit said:
The Vols had to fend off Doug Shows yesterday as well. Seasons change yet these same unqualified bums desperate to make these games about themselves are still ruining games. It's a real shame there isn't any accountability for collegiate officiating.
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Shows wasn't the worst of that crew at UGa. That blond boy made some awful calls and then got hostile when he got called out.
Yes we really do need accountability in college officiating.
 
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berryvol said:
Fair refereeing benefits Vegas. Any gambling conspiracy/scheme is going to hurt the books, not the customers.
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I don't understand that statement but not saying you are wrong. I'd like to understand what's going on because its ruining the sport.

My understanding is the gamblers don't want to gamble and since the online betting parlors exist in almost all states now betting will approach 100 billion in 2024. The massive size of the betting unit feeding Vegas is so large that they are having trouble evening up each side using odds, so they get their 10%, or 5% in Vegas. They used to get the odds evened 95% of the time now under 90%. When the line is off, and they are at risk, they turn to the lowest paid person on the court to try and eliminate that risk. It's the only explanation that makes sense for a trained individual with experience standing 2 feet from a non-foul or foul to completely miss the call.
 
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VOLtaism said:
I don't understand that statement but not saying you are wrong. I'd like to understand what's going on because its ruining the sport.

My understanding is the gamblers don't want to gamble and since the online betting parlors exist in almost all states now betting will approach 100 billion in 2024. The massive size of the betting unit feeding Vegas is so large that they are having trouble evening up each side using odds, so they get their 10%, or 5% in Vegas. They used to get the odds evened 95% of the time now under 90%. When the line is off, and they are at risk, they turn to the lowest paid person on the court to try and eliminate that risk. It's the only explanation that makes sense for a trained individual with experience standing 2 feet from a non-foul or foul to completely miss the call.
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The sheer size of an operation that you are speaking of makes it impossible to pull off. “Vegas” is not one entity, each sportsbook has their own oddsmakers, handicappers, and team that sets lines. Even if the action is less than 95% even, that’s fine, because many places charge 10 cents on the dollar, if not more, for wagers now. Many props and point buys carry 15-20 cents in juice. Books are still making money hand over fist from sports wagers. The risk that would be involved in a single sportsbook fixing a single event by paying a player would far outweigh and reward from what their profits would be, especially on a sport like SEC basketball that sees relatively low volume compared to, say, literally any football game played anywhere in the US. It’s just a senseless conspiracy theory when fair play and gambling regulations protect books from public actors, when talking about “fixing”.
 
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