This öööö also happens all the time where coaches don't even look at each other, they complete the little handshake ritual and move on. Narduzzi went out of his way to hang on to Collins hand and make a scene where there shouldn't have been one.
He is basically the embodiment of Pitt: Ultimately inconsequential.
I forgot to mention this earlier, but I noticed it too. Last week, NC State players were pulling cheap öööö to buy themselves more time on defense. This week, Pitt didn't have to do anything, the officials just held us up until Pitt was ready.
If there is any justice in the universe, any semblance of decency, losing to us will be what gets him fired. Then Geoff can hang on to his hand at midfield, dramatically crying out "NO PLS DONT GO"
I'd really like for us to get an explanation as to why the game was being held up for Pitt in the red zone. If there is some rare, obscure rule they know about, I wish the league would let us in on it. We wouldn't have had to spike the ball had the refs just said "Whoa, hold up, us refs gonna talk for a few minutes."
And we never will. I feel like it used to at least be more common that refs were fined or suspended for even making mistakes. Glaring ones, but mistakes nonetheless. That farce tonight was so far beyond incompetence, they shouldn't be allowed back on a collegiate football field. Something else was happening with that crew tonight, and cooling down hasn't changed my mind on that. Been watching the sport since 1997 and I've never seen anything like that.
Who knew refs could make use of scripted drives, too?
They remarked on how bad some of the later calls were, but nothing like what they should have been expressing if they weren't the apparently-now-standard brainless bodies, occasionally commenting on the action. But it is rare that any commentators pay enough attention to that stuff, or are willing to call out officials when it's deserved. Coincidentally, I saw this tweet for the first time tonight:
