I hope he thinks other schools gets screwed over by the refs, because if you don't that could make you want to go to another school.
I'm kidding, sort of.
Let’s talk about the refs
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I hope he thinks other schools gets screwed over by the refs, because if you don't that could make you want to go to another school.
I'm kidding, sort of.
Plus every team makes mistakes. No one plays a perfect game.
What is funny is we always get into two sides:
1. Refs cost us the game
2. rEfs didn't, it was other aspects.
Cyups just said it: It is both. Every play, decision by each player, coach and ref make up the game. Everything beyond a call or play changes the outcome of the game. If Enyi wasn't called for targeting, Wash St probably doesn't score on that drive. We will never know if Purdy throws a TD the next play, INT or anything in between, but all you can do is assess what happened. Absolutely no way you can't say this refs and review booth didn't take opportunity away from this team to win tonight, in spite of all the mistakes.
1. Refs cost us the game
2. rEfs didn't, it was other aspects.
Cyups just said it: It is both. Every play, decision by each player, coach and ref make up the game. Everything beyond a call or play changes the outcome of the game. If Enyi wasn't called for targeting, Wash St probably doesn't score on that drive. We will never know if Purdy throws a TD the next play, INT or anything in between, but all you can do is assess what happened. Absolutely no way you can't say this refs and review booth didn't take opportunity away from this team to win tonight, in spite of all the mistakes.
THIS. times 1000. We can argue the minutiae of what targeting is or isn't like a bunch of smart a$$ lawyers all day long and some high school debate wunderkind will parse it out....but we know what a catch is....a catch is a catch. It is the same thing as a catch when we all caught nerf balls in the back yard. It is an easy game....you throw the ball and you catch it. That was a catch. I was sort of more angry at our own team until that point....When that review took about 3 seconds and the smirky ass referees came back with a "confirmed" (I think they confirmed it, right? still hard to believe) while the review booth was on the phone like Leonardo Dicrapio in the Wolf of Wall Street at us...that is when I feel this game went to Eustachy-con-5 conspiracy levels. We were conspired against. That review rerferee should be doxxed....Who is he? What did he have to gain by promoting WSU win over us?
I know CMC had already went berserk, but I would have no problem with another one there.
WTH on Eaton's catch? They saw him "juggling" it? Seriously, did anyone see the ball move during Eaton's 4 steps? I sure didn't. He appeared to have complete control the entire time (until the ground.) That was the review outcome that shocked me the most.
I really don't think you need to call fellow Cyclone fans venting about a poorly officiated game "losers". Save that for Hawkeyes.
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And I never said the officials were the only reason ISU lost. You imagined that.
I said the officiating very likely swung the game more than two points toward WSU. I said it because it's OBVIOUSLY true.
This idea that one team needs to play flawlessly and the other gets to make all sorts of mistakes is irrational.
I read this and I only see a hard dose of reality.
Some would rather hide from it. Acknowledging reality doesn't makes somebody a "victim", it's insulting to suggest it. It also doesn't mean you give up, you work harder.
It was probably the most obvious call I've ever heard left at "ruling on the field stands" instead of "confirmed".
Either the replay official doesn't understand the terminology or there was some weird bias going on. There's no third choice there. Purdy had almost his entire body in the end zone when he came down. If that call isn't "confirmed" than almost zero calls should ever be confirmed by replay.
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It was a catch and the ball popped because he was downed.
The next most likely thing was a catch and a fumble, the wrong call, but an understandable wrong call.
The idea that that was incomplete is one of the worst calls I've ever seen in my life in any sport. It was definitely the worst call of the game in terms of it being absolutely wrong and how on Earth do you miss that with reply available?
Calling it a fumble would have screwed us more, but saying it's incomplete with replay at your disposal is absolutely unacceptable.
The lack of consistency in terms of 1) false start calls, and 2) booth reviews is what I found so amazing.
The minute I heard the claim that "every play is reviewed in college football" years back I was instantly positive that college football replay was going to be a gigantic screw job compared to NFL replay which actually works.
MLB replay is like a perfect flawless angelic miracle from god compared to NCAA football.
i posted about it on the WRNL game thread as it sure seemed like he was interfered with during the process of the catch, but we didn't spend too much time discussing it.
NFL also has their playoff system figured out. It’s fair, straightforward, and works. Really the only time I see controversy with NFL replays is when they’re making a judgment on a flawed rule.
College football is at best mismanaged, at worst corrupt.
Here is the ranking of bad calls:
1. Eaton catch . Was reviewed. Forced a punt.
2. 2nd targeting. Was reviewed. Would have been 4th down and a punt. Gave them the ball near the 12 iirc.
3. Missed false start. Gave them a TD vs FG.
4. Helmet to upper body against Montgomery. Knocked their defender out of the game . Was not reviewed. 50/50 but higher likelihood than our 2nd call.
5. Purdy TD dive not confirmed. No way they were going to take away our TD but they really really tried.
6. WSU QB was down and avoided a sack during a throw.
Correct calls-
Monte fumble.
Butler end zone non PI?
1st targeting call
1. Eaton catch . Was reviewed. Forced a punt.
2. 2nd targeting. Was reviewed. Would have been 4th down and a punt. Gave them the ball near the 12 iirc.
3. Missed false start. Gave them a TD vs FG.
4. Helmet to upper body against Montgomery. Knocked their defender out of the game . Was not reviewed. 50/50 but higher likelihood than our 2nd call.
5. Purdy TD dive not confirmed. No way they were going to take away our TD but they really really tried.
6. WSU QB was down and avoided a sack during a throw.
Correct calls-
Monte fumble.
Butler end zone non PI?
1st targeting call
Prolly my own bias but I felt like the commentators really wanted to WSU to win last night.
Tin foil hat on me says the talking heads want to uphold the debate about Washington/WSU and who's really better.
DM wasn't defenseless when he took out their defender. From what I've seen if a player has their head down on their own it doesn't get called.
