It is uncomfortable for many to say something that is out of "our" control has the ability have a bigger impact on the game, but it happens. The road team gets the calls- we overcame almost enough of them.
***Official Post Game Thread - ISU vs. Nebraska***
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It is uncomfortable for many to say something that is out of "our" control has the ability have a bigger impact on the game, but it happens. The road team gets the calls- we overcame almost enough of them.
A good team does not put the refs in position to have an impact on the game.
We are not a good team.
But I really enjoy watching this group - solid team play and the guys really work hard for the each other and coaches/fans.
We are not a good team.
But I really enjoy watching this group - solid team play and the guys really work hard for the each other and coaches/fans.
Good, you admitted the refs affected the game.
A team not playing perfectly does not void a poor performance by the officials. Cope with your cliches all you want.
Simpleton talk.
Many good teams have "put" the refs in position to have an impact on the game.
I agree with your last statement, and I agree that we are in no way an NCAA tourney team...although I held out slim hope that we could be an NIT team (tonight made that much tougher as there aren't a lot of road conference games we'll have a real shot in).
...but this does occasionally happen to good teams too..granted most of the times they are playing teams better than Nebraska when it happens.
Great effort by our guys, can't question that...and we definately made mistakes throughout the game the led to our demise...but saying the refs took this game over is not outa the question IMO. And it wasn't just one call (like flagging a guy for doing a salute after a td cuts it to two with a minute left)...it was on a LOT of calls (and no-calls) down the stretch that could have helped us put it away.
Gotta love the minutes and production from Godfrey tonight - as well as Ejim.
Sure gonna be fun to watch these two along with SC mixed with the guys sitting behind the bench next season.
Sure gonna be fun to watch these two along with SC mixed with the guys sitting behind the bench next season.
I dont need to cope with anything, we lost move along. But you can cope with blamming the refs all you want I couldnt care less.
This is the answer to everyone ******** about how our offense ground to a halt with the DG iso set we ran at the end of the game.
Last actual Husker basket was at 7:45. Only other score besides FT after that was a goaltend by Godfrey at 7:13. That put NE up by 3 (54-57) with 7 minutes left. After that the only way NE scored was with FTs. Yes No NE baskets inside 7 minutes.
From this point all NE points come off FTs. At 5:41 a NE player travels with the ball as he is falling down and Anderson gets called with a foul to bail him out (really bad call). We take over then and real off DG and Ejim 3s, NE gets one FT on an Anderson foul, and a layup by DG put us up by 4 (62-58) with 3:40.
From there it is us slowing the game down (=no ISU points) plus putting NE on the FT line (Anderson/JVB/Ejim fouls). Bad, bad, bad, clock managment. Why are we putting them on the line when we are up? All of the Husker's 6 points in the last 5 minutes were from the FT line. (I will say a number of those fould calls were very questionable though.)
Big big calls were JVB foul out call (NE made 2 FTs) and then at the other end Anderson's foul that should have been jump ball. Anderson had two rebounds that should have been a jump and a foul on NE. Instead they were called foul on Anderson adn jump. Bad calls. Those were really questionable calls. We certianly went dry but the refs went ahead and bent us over the barrell to help things.
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Thanks for looking this stuff up--takes a while to gather that stuff.
Although the refs didn't single handedly lose the game for us, it certainly wasn't 'equal'.
Safe to say the refs were not "fine"...if you don't wanna blame them for the loss it's fine. But rarely ever will you see officiating as one sided as it was the last 5-10minutes of a game.
This is a message board...people are entitled to post their thoughts, especially when they are backed up with facts.