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What goes uncalled goes unresolved


Dear Readers,

Making the right calls, especially in real time, can complicate a situation so much that even the most tranquil of people can lose their heads. I refer to both basketball and anything else with that statement. Tonight, I truly believe that the NCAA referees, whether conciously or not, let many more of the calls against the Duke Blue Devils go or simply reduced it to a lesser call.

In several instances, Zoubek, the Duke Center, should have received a foul call but merely walked all over other players to move the basketball. On one specific occasion, he intentionally elbowed another player as they both came down from trying to rebound a ball. The ball was eventually lost out of bounds. Zoubek commited at least three fouls within that 2 second period.

I won't continue on with ranting and raving about how grossly unfair tonight's title game seemed. I would just like to point out that I know how hard referees work, even if they do a terribly job. Not only in basketball do we make split-second decisions. Many times we find ourselves in a referee's position: we think, "I have to make a call, what should it be?" to ourselves. Often we leave the call until we obtain more information or a better circumstance. It remains evident however, that we will never make the right calls until we have made a few bad ones that we learn from. If you have choice, make it. If you don't like your circumstances, change them.

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