It All Depends On Who You Pull For

I throughly like being able to sit near the floor near coaches and hear their inter action with their players, and the referees.  You can see those that are good coaches the way they talk with their players  and then you can hear them plea with the refs.

I really like hearing Robbie Kennedy of Southern Nash as he pleas with the refs.  You would think  that all the refs were against him as during one moment in the action early in the third quarter Friday night after a Southern foul he pleaded with one of the refs that he didn't think he was getting a fair shake on the foul calls  that they were just calling everything on his team and nothing against Rocky Mount.

I looked at my play sheet and Rocky Mount had been charged with 14 fouls and Southern only six.  I chuckled and made a comment to Josh Walfish of the Telegram who sat beside me that Robbie's view of the game was with one eye closed.

Coaches surely have more invested in their team's outcome than those of us who sit in the stands and pull for one team or the other.  Just maybe the parents of those in action are the next vested in the outcome.  Everyone wants to win and we see a foul on the other side while everything we do is by the book.

In fact I am still rather hot under the collar that Kennedy Meeks of Carolina didn't foul out of the State game in Raleigh because he was on the back all night long against the Wolfpack big men when rebounding.  He had only one foul the entire game.  Couldn't the referees see anything in that game?

If you happen to be the only person in the stands that came to enjoy the game without pulling for one side or the other you see the game completely different  than those that are favoring one side.  We all want our side to win and in order to do that sometimes the refs have to make the calls that favor my view point which by the way they never seem to do.

Hardly ever do you hear a group of fans stand up and holler in unison  good call ref when the foul was against them.  You hear something like "that wasn't a foul just a minute ago at the other end, why is it now?'

Athletic competition is great for all who attend and take part from the players who get plenty of exercise during the contest.  Coaches who after games need to soak their throats in hot water to aid their sore throats from screaming at players and Refs.  Fans jump up and down in their seats whether they are applauding a great play or screaming at a dumb refs call.

We either all go home happy or we go home mad.  There is one thing that we all get  to do. We all had a good time at least until the final score.  If you think as you were riding home.  What a pleasure it was to watch our young people pour out their hearts  to do the best they could do.  Those of us in the stands did all we could do to sway the outcome in our favor by either telling the coach he didn't know what he was doing or screaming at some blind referee.

Boy, I can't wait for the next game!!!!