[JustAFan]

Because we see the tv commentators as the 'voice of authority'. Many of us are up in arms about this whole thing because apparently Reese Davis, Nell Fortner and Stacey Dales-Schuman went on a rant after the game and said that it simply was NOT a foul and should never have been called in the first place. According to them it was just 'incidental contact' occurring during a scramble after a loose ball, and they were demanding to let the players decide the outcome.

Well, I was at the game, and it sure looked like a foul to me. And as soon as I saw the crew chief heading for the table I thought to myself, 'Oh crap, I bet he's going to have to put some time back on the clock.' I didn't hear what the tv folks were saying so I didn't go berserk. Sure, it was a lousy way for a game to end. But sometimes games have lousy endings. I was disappointed too because I was rooting for Baylor to pull off the Upset of the Century. But when a player charges into her opponent like that, well, that's a no-no and I really don't think it matters when it happens. I'm sure that the Baylor player didn't intend to do it, but that's beside the point. Most of the fans around me were of the same opinion, that it was just a rotten piece of luck. In our minds, the players had decided the outcome of the game. Baylor had lots of chances to win but they let Tennessee get back into the game.

But we were not listening to the 'experts' in the ESPN studio. Would we have believed them if we had heard their comments? Who knows? Maybe, maybe not.

In any case, that's one of the primary reasons that we are so stupid.