Comments on: Enough Whining Over UCLA Non-Calls

By: yabooowho

yabooowho — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:18:07 +0000

Larry, you have a lot of crybabies from texas that read your site. Any team that can’t score a basket in the last 9 minutes deserves to lose.

By: bruin08

bruin08 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:56:49 +0000

It is over with and done, everyone is entitled to their opinion but it is impossible to change any of the calls, so what is the use of complaining and trashing these young men who play their hearts out for their team and their school and cannot control the calls by the referees. How can the officiating seriously be blamed on UCLA? We are all adults here and the fact that people are insulting others on here that they don’t even know based on their opinion on an issue that will not matter in a year is so childish, just think about it. Everyone is entitled to write what they want but lets leave the insults aside (i.e. “god have mercy on your soul”). I mean I think if we went back we could find fouls that should have been called on almost every team and weren’t…but what are you going to do about it? LIFE COULD BE WORSE, and I think the UCLA name shouldn’t be trashed just because the West Coast refs need to go back to officiating school.

By: 08LA

08LA — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:35:02 +0000

you know, its one of those funny things in life. as a ucla student (recognize the bias accordingly) its hard to watch these replays and keep hearing people trash our basketball program bc of these non-calls. it really is tragic that our fantastic basketball team should be on the receiving end of endless drivel related not to something they did, but rather the actions (inactions?) of the referee’s. I don’t really think that any members of the UCLA nation don’t deep down inside know that we got ‘lucky’ on those final plays. To beat Stanford, CAL, and the honorable Aggies after being down by nearly or over 10, is a feat not easily accomplished without a certain amount of luck. However, that being said it is still appalling to announcers and reporters label UCLA’s possible NC banner as being tainted. Please, understand that this is a program built by John Wooden. If ever a man of honor and dignity walked this earth, I think most people (UCLA alum or not) would find it deplorable to mention his program as anything but a class act. So yes, perhaps it is with the referees that we should place blame. And yes, it is a shame that the great accomplishments of this great team should be placed in doubt because of these “non-calls”. When all is said and done, however, I feel that is is unfair to entertain the idea of a tainted banner no. 12. Doing so is downright shameful.

By: Colin Killian

Colin Killian — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:24:22 +0000

You missed one small detail in your “analysis”: In two of the three photos you show, a fouL WAS CALLED on the A&M player.

By: The Driver

The Driver — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:17:38 +0000

Proof Aggie fans are insane….THIS ISNT LARRY BROWN THE COACH. If you read anything else on the website you would know that. Plus, does old man larry brown really look like the guy who would have a sports blog, much less even know how to use a computer? As for Bob’s pics, those are frame by frame stills taken from CBS telecast. Each frame represents roughly 1/32 of a second and only 3 frames show Shipp’s and in contact with Sloan. Thats about 3/32 of second. That doesnt represent a mugging and would be impossible for the human eye to see and call a foul. Finally, TAMU’s players and coaches did not protest the call immediately after the game ended. That is a clear indication that they did not believe it was a foul. Coach Turgeon only mentioned it after seeing the still pictures which, when take OUT of context, show a foul but like the frame by frame account linked above, when take by themselves do not show the complete story

By: JTAg

JTAg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:54:54 +0000

BobtheBruin, seriously dude, even in your own pics it shows the mugging of Sloan when trying to shoot. Just man up and admit it. You guys got away with one. It wasn’t a clean block. The nation knows it — even the nimrods at ESPN get it. Sloan should have gotten to at least try to tie it up at the line, but only Bruin fans don’t see it that way. That’s because your Bruins team as well as your fans are used to having the Refs bail them out (phantom call against Stanford ring a bell?). A commentator recently said, it’s sad about the no call b/c even if UCLA wins it all, it will be tainted. That said, NOW you can lay it to rest.

By: AggieHavoc

AggieHavoc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:20:23 +0000

That should say, “I quite thoroughly enjoyed watching Pop school you in the Finals a few years back.”

By: AggieHavoc

AggieHavoc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:07 +0000

BobTheBruin,

Yes, I would call that in a heart beat. It’s clear as day!

Larry,

It shocks me that YOU, of all people, are calling out others for whining. You have always been one of the biggest whiners in the NBA. I quite thoroughly enjoyed watching school you in the Finals a few years back.

By: BobTheBruin

BobTheBruin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:02:34 +0000

I have posted some frame by frame shots and videos of the play here here. Watch them and let me know if you still think a foul should have been called.

By: JTAg

JTAg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:43:23 +0000

Wow, Larry, doesn’t look like I need to say anything… you got owned already my friend. Just walk away.