re: Pearl losing it post-game

The other issue with some of the 50/50 calls is that when you are playing as consistently physical as AU was, it impacts the refs perception of who instigated what.

Let’s face it, Pearl and everyone else knows that AU has no chance in an open court running game with Bama and that Bama tends to shoot poorly in physical games so his guys were grabbing and bodying from the opening tip. And it worked, Bama was horrible from the field.

But you can’t play bully ball on the road and then complain when calls don’t go your way. A tightly called game and AU has their entire starting lineup fouled out midway through the 2nd.

It’s like the kid in class who always gets in fights, if the teacher has to guess who is at fault they are getting sent to the principals office.