When a team is allowed to mug you all night and avoid fouls while you, in turn, are whistled for standing too close it's pretty much impossible to "out physical" your opponent. The make up calls came in the second half but by that time we were beat up and mentally dominated. It is what it is. Not saying we would have won but Adu got the **** knocked out of him numerous times to no calls while they called EVERYTHING on the other end in the first half. That is very difficult to overcome. Several times throughout the game I saw the refs hanging out with Tennessee coaching staff and players laughing it up. Hell, at one point on the older ref was literally massaging one of the TN assistant coaches shoulder... this was on tv. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but that **** was very unprofessional.
In a fairly called game we might still lose but it would be a hell of a lot closer.