"fanboy" with a question -- and then i'll leave

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by PJS59

my question comes after hearing all the talk after that game; and now i'm seeing postings from UT fans about how "unfair" the officiating was, and how the refs "handed the game to OSU." how do you respond to the frequent comments that say refs favor the favorites, or they favor the name players, or even the outlandish stuff like "CBS wants the big names to stay in the tournament."

Quite honestly, I was "rooting" for Tennessee. Except for possible 1 or 2 calls I think they missed (and that's not a bad number), I think Tennessee received a very fair job of officiating....particularly when you consider that Oden was on the bench most of the night with foul trouble. Hard to say the refs were favoring OSU when their star player had so many fouls. In fact, on the ones I questioned most, all but one favored UT.