I understand and agree so I am a hypocrite. But, again - I have never left a state finals tourney with the feelings I described above. I was just curious what others thought.

I understand it is a very, very difficult and demanding job. I also understand that most of the fans don't know the rules as well as they think they do (me included).

I'll talk to a friend that does know the rules very well (i'll show him the tape, even though he was there live at the finals himself) and have him educate me on the calls that I thought were not right.

Nobody is perfect and probably 90% of the calls I thought were called wrong - were probably called correctly. Finally, I understand reffing is an art and there is a degree of subjectivity to it (i.e. 'judgment calls).

BTW, I had the stripes on for one year back in the early 80's. I was so bad at it that after one year, I fired myself. It goes ton fast and you have to process a lot of info fast and you have to deal with hostile people. No thanks. So, thanks for the reminder Klint.