There is a difference between officials being "bad" and being biased.
Do you believe that officials are ONLY bad towards Rutgers?
Was bias on the Davis backcourt? Or just bad?
Perhaps they are just bad for everyone.
I posted a few examples earlier of other fanbase reactions - it appears refs are "biased" against every teams (including when Rutgers is the opponent - which means the refs were biased against both teams somehow?)
The backcourt thing was bad. But that could just mean the refs LOOK to make particular kinds of calls and the ref responsible for the ball there was not in position to make the call. How many times have you seen the "autocall" against Rutgers on a defensive layup and that same amount of contact go uncalled on the other end? How many times have you seen a missed call result in points for Rutgers opposition.. or even worse.. an offensive foul resulting in a turnover because "we" complained about a call they missed that would have bene in our favor?
It is not just a Rutgers thing.
You see UCLA complaining about being the new whipping boys in the big ten and long before us Nebraska fans complained how they were treated by officials in their new conference.
The fans that see the mistreatment and call it out have been told things like.. well, star coaches get the calls.. winning programs get the calls.. star players get the calls.. we shoot too much from outside.. you have to go inside to get the calls.
The star players thing certainly seems true this year.. we have seen Harper and Bailey both get their share of calls... though, certainly, Harper gets a lot of contact on his layups with no call also. As for going inside/outside.. we have seen that this is untrue as outside shooting teams against us also end up with more FTs.
I'd like to see broadcasts continue to total the foul counts on-screen past the bonus+ level so you might see a total like 15 to 10 for a half.
I'd like to see fouls called by official.. by name.. in favor of and against certain team names. In a game full of stats, why can't we see this? Why can't the Big Ten hire referee-grading organization NOT made up by former referees looking to protect each other? Why can't we see the scoring of these referees?
I'd also like to see how certain refs do in relation to the Vegas line in games.
Yes.. I am mainly concerned with this stuff regarding Rutgers because I am a Rutgers fan and I do not see even-handed officiating in many Rutgers games, if not most. Even half to half it can vary greatly. If I had one criticism this year.. overall.. it would be the LACK of calls overall. We do not have a very physical team. We do not body check the ball handlers and screeners very often. On D we try to form a line and have active hands to cut down passing lanes.
Most opponents seem to like to physically push us around when we are on O and there has been an awful lot of grabbing of our players on screens and such and even, I hate to say, calling Rutgers for a foul committed by the opponent. To me, this is the height of absurdity and you never see it the other way. You may see a Rutgers foul go uncalled.. but calling a foul on the player who was actually fouled.. that has to be intentional.
