re: Did we ever have evidence ball was off Skylar?

It was amazing how blatantly biased the refs were for a home game. I don’t know how but Florida basketball has always been favored by the refs everywhere they go and last night was as bad a called game as I’ve seen this year. On the replay they concluded that because Mays’ fingers moved he must’ve touched it last but it was clear the Florida player knocked it out and Mays’ fingers only moved because the ball was exiting his grasp. Replay has just become another tool for crooked refs to manipulate outcomes.

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It was amazing how blatantly biased the refs were for a home game. I don’t know how but Florida basketball has always been favored by the refs everywhere they go and last night was as bad a called game as I’ve seen this year. On the replay they concluded that because Mays’ fingers moved he must’ve touched it last but it was clear the Florida player knocked it out and Mays’ fingers only moved because the ball was exiting his grasp. Replay has just become another tool for crooked refs to manipulate outcomes.

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You do know that Florida was whistled for 5 more fouls and LSU had 20 more FT attempts than UF, right?

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our defense was ATROCIOUS!!! But I think it could be a blessing because that will be coached up in practice and it wont happen again.

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Last season Florida got layups against LSU on about 900 inbound plays. We did not learn anything, and it happened again, so I am not convinced it won't happen in Gainesville later this season.

They should have been called for more. They were way more physical. They are pushing players, holding hands and on rebounds they are getting under the player.

They got away with lot more

They twice called us for over the back when it was clearly not. Then they called that foul on UF goign after the rebound off the missed FT when Emmitt probably should have been called for a foul. Several times on both teams driving to the lane the defender would initiate some contact before the ball handler would jump, and sometimes it was called and sometimes it wasn't.

It was just an inconsistently called game, and that is the worst way a referee crew can call a game. I'd rather they not call fouls at all, than call the ticky tack stuff all the time. But either way, at least you know what they are likely going to call and can adjust to it. When they are inconsistent, you don't know how to play.

It was clearly an official making a decision to keep the losing team in the game. Giving them another chance to make it interesting.

Happens at every level in every sport. Defensive PI in football against a team up 2 possessions is a main culprit. See PI against Fulton in the natty after he got that interception.

Good Lord, don't get me started on that asshat freddy valentine. Whenever I see him reffing a game, especially ours, I become violently ill. He is mentally ill. I GUARANTEE you in his own small little mind he fantasizes about how all these fans are coming out to see me ref. The ABSOLUTE WORST EVER!!!!!!

It's an incredibly stupid abuse of replay.

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Overall, it was a poorly officiated game. I would say (and trying to put bias aside) that some of the more blatantly bad calls went against LSU; but the crew was all around bad.

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This I agree with. When BOTH teams are in the DOUBLE BONUS with approximately 10 minutes to play the officials have made themselves WAY too much a part of the game. Basketball is hard to officiate. I get it. And you could arguably call a foul of some degree on just about every possession. But it is absurd to have 20 total fouls in 10 minutes of action.

What I was saying is that the officiating wasn't "completely" one-sided by evidence of the fact LSU got to the line 20 more times. Certainly LSU's aggressiveness in attacking the rim led to that, and there were some questionable calls that went against LSU, but overall the bad officiating balanced out.

As for the review, I think we are killing college basketball with so many late stoppages of play. If you want to review the time under 1:00 fine. But these millisecond by millisecond reviews are unnecessary, and we could all probably find an angle where a millisecond stop can show you what you want to see.

should have just lobbed the past mid-court and have someone from either team hit it. Sloppy,sloppy play on our part.