Oh, I noticed, but I decided to limit my discussion to the coaches involved, since that was the topic of this thread.
And it's easy to "strike a nerve" on a sports board when one makes specious arguments and presents ill-considered, unapt comparisons. Fan bases and coaches are -- and should be -- held to very different standards of conduct, so how our fanbase reacted to the UO travesty has exactly nothing to do with a discussion of Coach Knight's behavior.
It's valid to point out that we had a chance to score to win the UO game, but as been posted above, the UO game involved a series of astonishingly bad calls, so much so that it was a national cause celebre in the days following the game. Every sports commentator with an audience of two hundred people or more chimed in about what a travesty it was. Even the greatest team can be defeated by inept, if not corrupt, officiating, if the string of horrific calls is prolonged enough, as it was in that game (and in the Tech game at Lubbock).
A few tenths of a second in a basketball game that went to overtime doesn't even compare.
What's more, we lost at oswho on a similar clockkeeping situation -- I think it was even the same season -- and you didn't see Kelvin Sampson behaving as Knight did.
