1. The refs screwed us. This excuse in not untypical of fans from the losing side. But it has been an especially prevelant comment since the SDSU loss. Everytime BYU loses, its been the refs fault. Never mind that SDSU outplayed BYU or that the Cougs lost their composure against the Running Rebels. I expect to see this on Thursday night when I log onto Cougarblue.

imuakahuku wrote:

If you want an impartial observation about the refs in that game. My inlaws were here and my father in-law was watching the game with me. He doesn't care a hoot about basketball but he watched anyway. He made more than 10 comments about how the BYU players seemed to be getting mugged. I thought they let UNLV get away with too much contact myself

You have to learn to play the game. UNLV was more aggressive. Guess what? If the refs are allowing a certain amount of physical contact without calling fouls, then you better play physical against your opponent, or else you are probably gonna LOSE. Period. Stop whining.

hypercoug wrote:

imuakahuku wrote:

If you want an impartial observation about the refs in that game. My inlaws were here and my father in-law was watching the game with me. He doesn't care a hoot about basketball but he watched anyway. He made more than 10 comments about how the BYU players seemed to be getting mugged. I thought they let UNLV get away with too much contact myself

You have to learn to play the game. UNLV was more aggressive. Guess what? If the refs are allowing a certain amount of physical contact without calling fouls, then you better play physical against your opponent, or else you are probably gonna LOSE. Period. Stop whining.

One major problem with this theory - when the refs allow one team to play physical but the other gets called for the ticky-tack calls, what do you do then?

Note: Before the "Stop whining" whiners start whining about me whining, the refs didn't cost us the game, we didn't show up in the second half, etc. etc.