Seeing good ol Barb Smith ref our game today reminded me of her worst of many bad calls against us. Remember years ago, we opened the season at the RAC against Stanford, games was tied in the final seconds, she calls a phantom foul on Epiphany thirty feet away from the basket with one second left. Made me think who are our top five bad refs of all time. Here's mine:
Tina Napier
Barb Smith
Dennis Demayo (Geno's boy)
Mark Zentz
Susan Blauch
I believe the foul you are referencing was called by Melissa Barlow. She is a national level PAC12 ref, that game had all west coast ref's, must have been a deal. That sort of thing doesn't happen any more.
Barlow, Michael Price that someone else mentioned and any other PAC ref will not favor RU because of style of play issues. I assure you, and I attend at least some U of A games every year, that they ref differently than the east refs.
As to the various lists, yeah, Enterline, Smith, Napier, Zentz all don't tend to be good for RU to have, nor was Wesley Dean referenced in the article or the retired DeMayo (his was a style thing). I don't think any of them deliberately are screwing RU, just that they have preconceived notions about Rutgers style or other factors.
Blaugh I wouldn't single out, nor the retired Sally Bell. Rutgers often plays - and especially historically - on the border-line between "ok" and "too physical". I can accept not getting every call right, it is just when you start getting more wrong than right . . .
Oh, and the late Bonita Spence was never an issue. She called them as she saw them, and as someone said, sometimes she was seeing things, but there was never an apparent or actual RU bias.
