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Country,
This is for Chas McFarland and I hope he reads this. Chas was quoted in the Journal earlier:

“I hate sitting there watching my team,” McFarland said. “I feel like I should be out there with them.

Chas, you have the potential to participate @ the next level. Until you learn to control your emotions you prospects for success are minimal @ best @ the next level…

WFU players like Ish, Aminu, L.D. etc. focus their frustrations and energies to the court. It would behoove you to do likewise and GROW UP!!! You hurt your team by your immature antics…

For thirty minutes the team looked good. The last ten reminded me of the team in Nov. Dec. and early Jan. Trust they will be prepared for NCSU as Raleigh is no cake walk as Duke found earlier…

Tom on 02/17/2010 (2:53 pm)

Good post, Dan! You pretty much hit the nail on the head. It was a badly officiated game and it cost us some points but the team’s D in the 2nd half cost us more points. Giving up 55 in a half is horrible! We lost the game ourselves but the refs certainly didn’t help!

Ken Green on 02/17/2010 (2:52 pm)

Dan,
John Clougherty said in the latest issue of the Poop Sheet that he grades officials after every game.  Would you please call Mr. Clougherty and ask what grades these officials received?  He’ll probably say that is internal info, but when the officials decide a game (and VT going to the FT line 47 times[!] definitely decided this game), shouldn’t the ACC have the integrity to make public how the ACC graded these officials?

MarkDeac1 on 02/17/2010 (2:43 pm)

Good take here, Dan. We Deac fans can’t blame it all on the refs — just 90 percent?!? — because our team didn’t do it on defense and on the boards in the second half. With that said, I’m having a hard time remembering a performance that matched this wretched night by the zebras:

- as you alluded to, the refs award VT’s Delaney a 3 when his toe was clearly on the line and don’t even think to review it; had they not blown the call, we would’ve been shooting for the tie in our last possession

- VT player gets teched up for a forearm shiver to McFarland, but the refs review it and rule it a double technical; what is this—can you now review a flagrant, dead-ball move like that to see if the recipient looked too suspicious?!?!? Yes, Chas’ rep certainly factored in there.

- Ish gets tripped dribbling up the court after a rare stop on D and loses the ball — no call; a split second later, they call a tripping foul on McFarland

- 47 to 27 FTA disparity — the dry-erase board behind the Wake bench said it all

Do we take solace that we still were close in the end despite only playing our game for one half and going 5 on 8 for the second half?

Keep your heads up, Deacs!

P.S. I’m really proud of you, L.D.!!!

Lee, B. on 02/17/2010 (12:48 pm)