Doug Needs To Make A Phone Call

[slick1ru2]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

[JTrue]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

And your belief is that the refs will continue to keep calling biased penalties until Doug calls?

[FatDaddyBull]

Who cares if he called. Bad calls work themselves out. We get one this season or next. It always balances out. Even if he did call what good does it do?

Ridiculous thinking. I always hear this.

That's like saying because the Patriots got the luck of the tuck rule, and that the pushing penalty a couple weeks ago was evening things out. Tell that to a Raiders fan who missed out on a Super Bowl.

We still haven't gotten retribution for illegal forward propulsion. Or maybe by this logic a missed holding penalty against Charleston Southern a couple years later evened that out?

[FatDaddyBull]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

And your belief is that the refs will continue to keep calling biased penalties until Doug calls?

Was it Phil Jackson who used to complain about the refs and then always seem to get every call to go his way the next couple days?

Whether we all like it or not Doug is a powerful person, and if every time his team gets a call against them he's harassing the league office, they don't want that.

Not saying it'll work, but it won't make anything worse

[NewEnglandBull]

Who cares if he called. Bad calls work themselves out. We get one this season or next. It always balances out. Even if he did call what good does it do?

Ridiculous thinking. I always hear this.

That's like saying because the Patriots got the luck of the tuck rule, and that the pushing penalty a couple weeks ago was evening things out. Tell that to a Raiders fan who missed out on a Super Bowl.

We still haven't gotten retribution for illegal forward propulsion. Or maybe by this logic a missed holding penalty against Charleston Southern a couple years later evened that out?

Completly disagree. It may not be one big call but it can be the culmination of a lot of smaller calls. There are plenty of holding call we never see. I know for a fact there have been pass interference calls against us this year that have not been called. True, you may not the same stage or point if the game, but the calls themselves do even out.

[smazza]

 

I'm sure the calls will get sent to the league office.  And I'm sure there are much worse calls than that every year.  Those were not especially egregious, nowhere near Illegal Forward Propulsion.

This is beyond a call. This brings into question, should the refs be deciding who wins games.

 

 

 

they always have and as long there is a human element they always will

[slick1ru2]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

And your belief is that the refs will continue to keep calling biased penalties until Doug calls?

The refs need to be educated to be consistent in calling penalties. Better, more consistent officiating. Is that too lofty a goal for you to grasp? Edited November 2, 2013 by slick1ru2

[Ravishing Rueb]

I'm sure the calls will get sent to the league office.  And I'm sure there are much worse calls than that every year.  Those were not especially egregious, nowhere near Illegal Forward Propulsion.

I disagree. The forward propulsion call was legit. We would have been in an uproar if Rutgers did the same thing and got away with it.

 

The last USF throw of the Rutgers game was a terrible call.

 

Forward propulsion was legit?

 

It was not at all.  Illegal forward propulsion is when a player intentionally throws the ball to the ground in hopes someone else will pick it up.  Replays clearly showed that the ball was knocked out of the USF player's hands by a Rutgers player from behind, thus pushing the ball forward.  There wasn't anything remotely intentional about it.  A regular fumble that is advanced is perfectly legal, which is exactly what happened in the Rutgers game.

When I take my green and gold glasses off, it looks like there was an intentional throw forward. It was a smart play, and I bet Rutgers would have gotten away with it, but I can't objectively say that it was a bad call.

[Triple B]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

I thought they were pretty consistent in calling that "having to be set one second" rule ...

[JTrue]

I get the anger, but what is the end result you're looking for?

Consistency in calling penalties. They can't call it on one play and not on the next, especially late in a one score game that means something in a conference title race.

And your belief is that the refs will continue to keep calling biased penalties until Doug calls?

The refs need to be educated to be consistent in calling penalties. Better, more consistent officiating. Is that too lofty a goal for you to grasp?

Well, if I were a ref and the AD of one of the schools was telling me how to officiate, I'd politely explain that he can mind his own ******* business and let me use my vast years of training and experience while he worries about things like when he's going give his baseball coach another extension. Edited November 2, 2013 by JTrue