I watch all the conferences play starting on Thursday each week.
Starting with TCU VS WVU, it became clear that certain conferences are "protecting their investments" by calls working out for highly ranked teams. I commented on it in the game thread that night.
I keep three tv's in the living room during football season so I'm inundated with football goodness. For fun I counted endzone celebrations. I used the metric of something other than pointing at the fans or something to that effect.
I watched the notre dame qb flap his arms after running in atd (they were playing the owls).
I watched Clemson players dance like they were at a club in the endzone.
According to my tic marks on the paper, I saw 7 other cases of excessive celebration in yesterday's games.
That point is brought up as I'm still P'ed off about the ruling against Ridley where they said he spiked the ball And got unsportsmanlike.
The targeting call against the Michigan defender THROWN onto the qb on the ground.
This leads to the final play of the game for Miami vs Duke yesterday. It's in several threads here if someone wants to link it. The refs had 4 blocks to the back (2 of which weren't remotely questionable), a knee down on the lateral, and a 12th man on the field, running onto the field, with his helmet off.
I've seen at least 8 games this season, (two of which were ours), where the broadcaster quits calling the game just so they can talk about how flagrantly bad a pass interference call is. And in this scenario I'm not talking about the "oh, maybe it was" calls.....I mean the "nearest guy is 3 yards away from the receiver" type calls.
This doesn't even include the holding call misses throughout CFB.
SO the question is, what can be done?
I'd like to see fines and suspensions, pure and simple. A blown call doesn't necessarily mean either happens, or that both always happen. I'm not asking for perfection.
But when you as a ref get called into a room and look at the video and see something so flagrantly wrong, there has to be some accountability.
So based off each conferences leadership upon review the following week, fines get levied, possible suspensions. Everyone was p'ed years ago with the substitute refs, and in my opinion the calls are getting that comical and outrageous.
Starting with TCU VS WVU, it became clear that certain conferences are "protecting their investments" by calls working out for highly ranked teams. I commented on it in the game thread that night.
I keep three tv's in the living room during football season so I'm inundated with football goodness. For fun I counted endzone celebrations. I used the metric of something other than pointing at the fans or something to that effect.
I watched the notre dame qb flap his arms after running in atd (they were playing the owls).
I watched Clemson players dance like they were at a club in the endzone.
According to my tic marks on the paper, I saw 7 other cases of excessive celebration in yesterday's games.
That point is brought up as I'm still P'ed off about the ruling against Ridley where they said he spiked the ball And got unsportsmanlike.
The targeting call against the Michigan defender THROWN onto the qb on the ground.
This leads to the final play of the game for Miami vs Duke yesterday. It's in several threads here if someone wants to link it. The refs had 4 blocks to the back (2 of which weren't remotely questionable), a knee down on the lateral, and a 12th man on the field, running onto the field, with his helmet off.
I've seen at least 8 games this season, (two of which were ours), where the broadcaster quits calling the game just so they can talk about how flagrantly bad a pass interference call is. And in this scenario I'm not talking about the "oh, maybe it was" calls.....I mean the "nearest guy is 3 yards away from the receiver" type calls.
This doesn't even include the holding call misses throughout CFB.
SO the question is, what can be done?
I'd like to see fines and suspensions, pure and simple. A blown call doesn't necessarily mean either happens, or that both always happen. I'm not asking for perfection.
But when you as a ref get called into a room and look at the video and see something so flagrantly wrong, there has to be some accountability.
So based off each conferences leadership upon review the following week, fines get levied, possible suspensions. Everyone was p'ed years ago with the substitute refs, and in my opinion the calls are getting that comical and outrageous.
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