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<blockquote data-quote="Ransom Stoddard" data-source="post: 1357806" data-attributes="member: 10336"><p>We have a PF that developed a rep for aggressive and borderline cheap play in his Frosh year and that rep hasn't gone away, right or wrong. Refs go in to every game knowing that, and like it or not, it affects they way they call fouls, period. </p><p></p><p>I can't find the article, but someone did a big in-depth piece a few years ago about supposed officiating bias against or for certain schools, with a lot of data, interviews with refs, and tape breakdown. What they found is that over time, every team is both the victim and beneficiary of <strong>bad or missed </strong>calls at a fairly even level. Discrepancies in fouls are going to be there even when refs don't miss calls because a) some teams are more aggressive and b) some teams have a lot of young players that are still working on body control.</p><p></p><p>Illinois happens to have both a & b. I'm not saying there weren't some fouls that should have been called against UNLV, but if the refs are impacting the game as visibly as people are saying they did, institutions like the FBI are going to sit up and take notice very quickly. The only significant reason to influence the outcome of a game is for gambling, not some vague conspiracy against the beloved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ransom Stoddard, post: 1357806, member: 10336"] We have a PF that developed a rep for aggressive and borderline cheap play in his Frosh year and that rep hasn't gone away, right or wrong. Refs go in to every game knowing that, and like it or not, it affects they way they call fouls, period. I can't find the article, but someone did a big in-depth piece a few years ago about supposed officiating bias against or for certain schools, with a lot of data, interviews with refs, and tape breakdown. What they found is that over time, every team is both the victim and beneficiary of [B]bad or missed [/B]calls at a fairly even level. Discrepancies in fouls are going to be there even when refs don't miss calls because a) some teams are more aggressive and b) some teams have a lot of young players that are still working on body control. Illinois happens to have both a & b. I'm not saying there weren't some fouls that should have been called against UNLV, but if the refs are impacting the game as visibly as people are saying they did, institutions like the FBI are going to sit up and take notice very quickly. The only significant reason to influence the outcome of a game is for gambling, not some vague conspiracy against the beloved. [/QUOTE]
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