UNC/Duke Game

[jeffpea]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Senseless exaggerations? You mean like saying that someone who got smacked in the face initiated the contact? And that someone who smacked another player in the face, breaking his nose, was just protecting himself?

Those statements aren't exaggerations. They're just plain senseless.

So in a situation were people are expressing their opinions about a play that none of us where involved in, none of us know the exact details of what discussions took place, and none of us had to ultimately make a decision that is subject to review by millions of others.....why is it that some posters feel that not only are they right, but anyone who disagrees with them are clueless, make senseless statements, or a "baby who needs to take a nap"?

The best officiating crews are ones in which the three calmest people in the arena are the game officials. It seems that several posters in here get pretty excited and emotional very quickly in a chat room of all places...

Since this is totally a subjective ruling by the officials, I think it's a little disengenuous to say that their ruling is the only ruling that is acceptable. Isn't possible that the officials could have handled it this way: personal foul on #51 Duke, Flagrant Technical Foul on Henderson (Henderson ejected - NOT for fighting/combative action)? That is the scenario that I would have gone with. I don't have a major problem with what the officials ruled, I have consistently expressed a differing opinion....isn't there room for a differing opinion? Do you absolutely have to be right and I have to be completely wrong?