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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
Referees are definitely underappreciated. But it's really easy as a competitive person to throw the blame for your loss somewhere else, especially if it seems like a controversial call made all the difference.
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The way I see it, FRC has a lot of factors beyond your control. Maybe the schedule doesn't go your way, maybe the refs made a bad call.
The thing is, you can't focus on what you can't control. Time and effort spent complaining about refs won't make your bot or teams attitude better.
It's frustrating to lose because of a refs call, but when it happened to me in 2014, I asked myself "was it really the refs fault?" I tried to think of all the things our team could have done better. Raking higher, making a better pick list, building a better bot, and driving better. Rather than focus on a factor beyond my control, I focused on how I could influence the team next year to a point where factors beyond our control could be ignored.
Its kind of like when a single player "messes up" a game in football by missing the last second field goal for the tie. He isn't truly the one at fault. Sure he misplayed, but his teams defense could stopped more plays or their receivers shouldn't have dropped passes.
I never liked playing the blame game. I feel a lot more can be gained we always look inwards for who to pin the blame on.