Acc officials = classless cheaters

[THWG_Nuff Said]

Not to mention 4 other calls. Two holding penatlies not called, a no call on a facemask, and a phantom block in the back negating a big return. **** these pieces of ****. They are lucky I'm not at that game. I would storm the field at games end and punch that **** head square in the face.

No you wouldn't....you know you wouldn't

 

[THWG_Nuff Said]

I agree. The only thing we can do as fans is videocapture it and stick it on youtube with a tag, "bad acc refs." There's a lot of them there already.

Waste of time my friend....will do NO GOOD

 

[THWG_Nuff Said]

I absolutely believe that the refs may look the other way on some calls to suit UNC. One of the first things I noticed that the ISP corporate box (I think that is the new ISP box) located on the north end of the east stands was 90% UNC fans.

Now tell me, I have been a GT fan my entire 43 years on this planet (grandfathers and dad made sure of it) and I have yet to ever get to see a game from the comfort of a box. That is just fine. However, it burns me up to know that freakin' freebies are being given out to UNC pricks at our stadium to sit in a comfortable box. Dammit.

Come on now, THEY SUCKED .... YES, but you're reaching my friend

 

[gth816f]

Well boys, it looks like the NFL ref is trying to outdo the refs for our UNC game. Matt Ryan just had his pass batted at the line of scrimmage, the ball bounced on the ground a couple of times, then the Pats picked it up and ran for a TD. No whistle blown, ball ruled live.

 

[gth816f]

Wow. And they just lied about why they got it wrong: "The passer's arm was going forward." Well no ****, it was a forward pass.

 

[eg1]

Thanks! We had a little girl. She is our second. Mama and Baby are doing great.

Congrats! It's good to have girls, 'cause at least they'll give a crap about you when you're old. I have a daughter who is a sweetie -- the boy, on the other hand, is a pain in the butt ...

 

[buzztheirazz]

did anyone notice on the tv coverage(i watched when i got home last night) when the dual unsportsmanslikes were called, paul johnson saying "you son-of-a-bitch!" i read his lips and thats what i read...a few times...

its there if you have it dvr-ed. he's all the way out on the field chewing out the refs. i believe his point that was #71 (cord howard?) was retaliating against #12 although they end up calling it on the wrong number OF COURSE. think he wanted to make sure they didnt fukk up another one.

 

[gtfan088]

Well boys, it looks like the NFL ref is trying to outdo the refs for our UNC game. Matt Ryan just had his pass batted at the line of scrimmage, the ball bounced on the ground a couple of times, then the Pats picked it up and ran for a TD. No whistle blown, ball ruled live.

There was the extremely weak holding call on the defense as well as the offensive PI on the Jenkins TD that goes for a no-call 90% of the time. The Falcons played poorly, but it seemed like it was an uphill battle from the beginning due to the officials.

 

[DediKtd2GT]

There was the extremely weak holding call on the defense as well as the offensive PI on the Jenkins TD that goes for a no-call 90% of the time. The Falcons played poorly, but it seemed like it was an uphill battle from the beginning due to the officials.

NO Doubt! Did you see all the holding on Abraham by Light? All the genius announcers could say was what a great job Light was doing on A. Hell, I could have protected THE GREAT BRADY with those refs.

 

[77GTFan]

You know, for all my complaining about the Old North State I do not think refs cheat. I think they are biased. Here is the difference for me. A cheater wants to use his influence over the game to get the outcome he desires. He knowingly makes wrong calls to help his favored team win. Very few refs resort to cheating, in my opinion.

Bias occurs whenever the league believes there would be greater benefit to some programs succeeding over others. This kind of bias is shaped by conference offices and media. I think the bias in the ACC is strong. Bias occurs whenever the league believes the U or FSU winning is better for it than BC or Maryland winning. Bias occurs when the conference believes it is a good thing for the conference when UNC is doing well, that the conference woould be better served by getting a North Carolina school in the conference championship, or that it is best for the ACC when Duke and UNC basketball are on top. For instance, the media here always argues that the ACC basketball tournament suffers when North Carolina schools lose. They act as if the league must endure a disaster when there is a GT-UVA final as in '90. Swofford and tobacco road media, assisted far too often by national media, perpetuate a strong bias in the ACC.

I don't see this as much in other conferences. I don't think the Big East cares if it's WVU, Rutgers, or Syracuse on top. I think the SEC has a bias against its lesser knowns - Miss State, Vandy, Ky, in football, and maybe to a lesser extent against newbies Arkansas and SC. But, I don't think there is a bias that says the league is better off having Georgia beat Florida, LSU beat Auburn, or Tennessee beat Alabama.

I think the mentality of the ACC here in North Carolina is that the conference is best served by North Carolina's success, to a lesser exetent NC State, and Duke in basketball. Once that bias is established, it subtlely influences everything from refereeing to scheduling.

I do think the bias is real.

 

[floridajacket]

Bias has been statistically proven in the NBA. I'm too lazy to link to the survey, but it has been proven within a 95% confidence interval that refs call less fouls on players of their own race. When they make split-section decisions with a lot of grey area, then their biases show through.

That explains what I saw on Saturday, the refs were likely from NC and were incompetent enough to make many calls with their guy or on the fly or whatever. BUT that does not explain the clock running on Bebe's catch. The only explanation for them NOT involving them having money on the game is:

1. That back judge screwed by winding his arm.
2. The clock operator automatically kept running the clock.
3. The officiating crew suffered from having six people able to blow their whistles and did nothing out of inertia. It's like how one person witnessing a hit-and-run will report it to the police, but forty people witness a hit-and-run and nobody reports because everybody thought somebody else would call it in. No official was willing to take initiative just to blow the damn whistle and signal to reset the game clock.

Horrible incompetence, bias, getting bets, or probably a combination of the three.

 

[WreckTheRest]

Let's not forgot certain organizations approaching players and refs and telling them how well they should play. Incentives range from financial to maintaining personal safety of self and or family. Harder to do the financial incentive in pro sports because the players/coaches are already making good money.