Criticism of officials

[Adam]

Here's a thought for those of you (you know who you are) who think we don't tolerate criticism of officials here. We do, but only when it's intelligent and informed.
I'm watching the NCAA final on ESPN Classic now, and the announcers are aweful. There was an early block on a UConn shot that was called a foul, and the announcer actually says, "He may have got him on the body, but it looks like a great block to me." He follows that later after an GT call on Okofor by saying the GT "evens things up" after the clean block that was whistled on the other end. (The GT was confirmed on replay.)
When the announcers are saying things like, "He may have gotten away with an over the back foul," then any criticism they may send towards the officials is disregarded.
When trolls come in here saying that certain calls were "horrible," and that any experienced official would or would not have called something, I put you in the same category as Raftery and company.
When someone claims to be a ref, and then says he sits in the stands and tells those around him when he thinks the refs aren't doing well, I think he has ego problems. Someone is obviously upset that he never got the big D1 games he thinks he deserves, and blames it on politics, affirmative action, or whatever, and feels vindication from attacking those officials anonymously. Yeah, Baylor fan, I'm speaking of you.