What did you think of the refs today?

[fred ziffel]

Just wondering what you thought....they seemed to miss quite a few calls both ways...

[madjudge]

did miss several calls both ways, but felt we got short end in first half for sure

[WxHog]

Missed a lot of calls both ways.   To be fair to Auburn, refs called a goal tending on them which looked like it was still on the way up to me.   Lebo went bananas for good reason. 

[QuadHog]

Auburn was using moving screens starting from their 1st possesion,it was called once.They walked the entire 1st half when they threw the ball underneath.We got away with one or two real fouls,but got hammered on several that were good blocks.The refs in the league show the little guys no mercy,Fortson shouldve shot at least 6 more fts.The over and back on the inbounds play was BS,Fortson caught the ball and was on one side,the defender bumped him across the line.Soething else that bothered me,seemed like one of them made it a point to go to the AU coaches during every timeout or at least walk the floor with Hardgrave and pat him on the back.

[QuadHog]

Missed a lot of calls both ways.   To be fair to Auburn, refs called a goal tending on them which looked like it was still on the way up to me.   Lebo went bananas for good reason. 

Wasnt that ball swiped off the glass?Couldnt tell,that happened on the other end from our seats.

[HogInThaGrove]

They missed a ton of walks.  Also called 2-3 blocked shots, fouls on us in the 1st half.  Wash and Fortson both blocked shots that were called fouls.  They also had many times where it seemed the closest ref was letting the play go and the ref furthest from the action made the call.  I'd still like to see the over-and-back against fortson. 

[Jacob "2 Scoops" Johnson]

Fair. Missed some calls on both ends. Didn't have a huge problem with it.

[Hog Milanese]

It was perhaps the worst officiated game I've ever been to.

[QuadHog]

I dont get it,I know they cant getevery call right,but man,some of the walks were by 2 and 3 steps.

[rhinohog84]

They did screw up the goal tending call, but they were very inconsistent with contact IMO.  They missed a couple offensive fouls on Auburn when they pushed off Britt and Welsh badly.

[N HOG]

They were very bad.

As far as benefitting from the bad calls, Auburn got the calls in the first half and we got several going down the stretch.

[kgr]

The were equally pathetic on both ends of the court.  But those in our favor I don't care about, although the goal tending was pretty pathetic.  Auburn walked at lot and their guards pushed off to get separation (obviously at times) and lots of moving screens

[linze82]

you should try to get your hands on the film from the bama-ole miss second half. sec refs at their finest

[The Boar War]

I feel that I can say this because we won and not sound like sour grapes.  It was one of the worst officiated major conference basketball games I have seen.  To be fair it didn't seem to go in favor of one team.  There were some flat out mistakes (the goaltending call against Auburn) some non calls (when the Auburn player jumped into Rotnei after a three point attempt) and some strange moments (when the ref with no view of the play tried to say Delvin Johnson was fouled on the floor instead of in the act of shooting).  They also tended to call walks only when they felt like it.

However the worst part of their officiating was the inconsistency.  At times they would let both teams play hard.  Then they tried to get a handle on the rough play only to quit calling the same degree of contact later in the game.  That is how players get hurt.

[N HOG]

you should try to get your hands on the film from the bama-ole miss second half. sec refs at their finest

I assumed from looking at the magnitude of the OM comeback that the refs had to have a strong hand in the proceedings.

[fred ziffel]

It was indeed an inconsistant and strange performance by the men in stripes....

[linze82]

It was indeed an inconsistant and strange performance by the men in stripes....

not strange at all. pretty typical of sec refs. there is no bias in basketball, just piss poor officiating all the way around

[Paul Swinebaum]

They were the typical SEC officiating crew...sub-par. They missed a lot of calls and some they did call were bad.

[cc]

I did see many moving screens.  Powell got hacked many times down low and then they call Britt for a hand check when the Auburn player pushed him off.  The walks down low on Auburn were so obvious maybe the refs thought there is no way they are actually doing that.

[Breems]

The refs got hammered tonight.  I was one of the hammers.  They made bad calls on both sides.  Improved in the second half, I think.

[fred ziffel]

I think we should make them run laps....

[snoblind]

you should try to get your hands on the film from the bama-ole miss second half. sec refs at their finest

I didn't tune in until the end.  The announcers commented that Grant was fuming and then they showed him.  If looks could kill...

I thought the refs sucked in our game, but when they gave us that goaltending call it's kind of hard to complain.  Just like in FB, it's incompetent.  Then you read fans from other conferences comment on the refs in their conferences and they wish they could be as good as the SEC??   

[Razorpigg]

The officials were awful today.