The way I look at it, it would be the part of the Chiefs for letting the lead slip away. You have to take responsibility for blowing the lead. There is an entire game. Taking one call, even if it is late, and blaming it for a loss is not right. There are thousands of events/calls in a game. Blaming the officials is lame. They are a part of the game.

In a game you had a big lead, I would agree with you. However, in this particular game decided by the smallest margin, I will disagree. There were three blown calls all in favor of UCLA within a matter of 15 seconds. In a hard fought game it is a shame that the officials ruin it. We have seen it too many times this year.

This game just made me realize though that the PAC 10 has the worst officiating in all of the NCAA in both football and basketball.

You know what's sad is that's actually happened. I don't remember the exact circumstances, but Amy Trask of the Raiders once raised that issue with Paul Tagliabue, complaining about a poor referee's call that cost Oakland a game.

And Tags was like "Well, if your team hadn't turned it over three times, blah blah blah", basically taking the refs off the hook for blowing a game-deciding call.

And that logic sucks. Even if a team hadn't made a single mistake all game long, someone could just as easily say "Well, if they would have scored more points, the ref's bad call wouldn't have mattered". Or "if they hadn't let the other team score as many points, it wouldn't have mattered".

The "if" defense is BS. All that should matter is what's happening at the moment the referee makes the call.

this is flawed...i can't foresee the chiefs ever being up 34 points with herm as coach, let alone in the super bowl

I agree, if shoot from inbounds on court...................
 

regardless of the back-board. The shot should count.