Eleven (11) unanswered fouls is hard to overcome...and the bsu announcers, obvious homers, knew it too. We played well through it.

You have to put yourself in their shoes as the once and future pride of the Big East conference, then you’ll realize the sting it is to lose to a team from…uh…the…west?

IdaAg93 wrote: ↑

January 27th, 2024, 8:17 pm

Eleven (11) unanswered fouls is hard to overcome...and the bsu announcers, obvious homers, knew it too. We played well through it.

Even the Boise State announcers were shaking their heads over the 11 straight fouls on us.

SectionBAggie wrote: ↑

January 27th, 2024, 8:10 pm

I understand that losses cause frustration and that refs are often mentioned when "my" team loses. But the BSU game thread https://247sports.com/college/boise-sta ... 20/?page=1 takes it to a new level given that:

• Both teams shot the same number of FTs

• One team tried to "foul for profit" numerous times in OT

• One team shoots poorly from the FT line year-in and year -out

Given the fact that BSU picked up their third team foul in the 2H at 17:27 (followed by the tech) and USU never made it to the bonus in regulation, I have to laugh at the accusations that the refs gave it to USU.

I didn’t read that thread but to be fair that thread would be the equivalent to reading the chat history during a close game.

SectionBAggie wrote: ↑

January 27th, 2024, 8:10 pm

I understand that losses cause frustration and that refs are often mentioned when "my" team loses. But the BSU game thread https://247sports.com/college/boise-sta ... 20/?page=1 takes it to a new level given that:

• Both teams shot the same number of FTs

• One team tried to "foul for profit" numerous times in OT

• One team shoots poorly from the FT line year-in and year -out

Given the fact that BSU picked up their third team foul in the 2H at 17:27 (followed by the tech) and USU never made it to the bonus in regulation, I have to laugh at the accusations that the refs gave it to USU.

I suspect there are some irrational fans from every fanbase. Almost every time we lose, we’ll see a few fellow Aggies complain about the refs. Imperfect refs are part of the game and just like players being unable to make 100% of their shots or to execute with zero turnovers, the refs aren’t going to be 100% consistent. It stinks when there are a few egregious calls that go against the Aggies in a close loss, but I’m not into the conspiracy theories that the league hates USU.