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Congrats Lee Co. on a hard fought win!

I've said it once & I'll say it again "It's extremely hard for the 15th to walk into the 14th region and walk out with a win" unless you just have a dominant team. Same goes for 14th region teams coming into the 15th.

It's my opinion that Refs are not going to give calls to coaches who don't rate them. Why would they? By giving a visiting team, (from outside the region they call in) the breaks, ref's are cutting their own throat! If they go against their own region the coaches give them a poor ranking. Then they don't get to call the state tournament and they don't get to call the big games in their own region. Refs don't lose anything by calling against teams from outside their region & they lose everything by calling for teams outside their region. JMO

I'm not bashing refs this is just the way it is !!! 14th region coaches rank 14th region officials. 15th region coaches rank 15th region officials. No one is getting the breaks outside their own region.

The bolded part is dead on. That's just the way it is. Has been since regions and referee assciations were formed. It won't change. Refs are rated by their own region's coaches, so if there is a 'doubt' call the judgement will always go to the home team, because the home coach has leverage when rating time comes. Call it unprofessional if you wish, I call it subconscious human nature.