Referees…More “Special”?
These guys definitely arrived at Bobby Dodd Stadium riding on the proverbial short bus.
This was potentially one of the most miserable examples of ACC referee’ing I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something!
Its one thing to forget to stop the clock when a ball carrier goes out of bounds.
Its another thing to forget to stop the clock when that same ball carrier got a first down on that same play.
Its a WHOLE ‘nother thing when you make both of those mistakes on one play late in the half as time is winding down in a close game.
The sheer incompetence of that rectal cranial inversion was topped only later in the game when the referees allowed horse collars and facemask penalties to go uncalled.
But then they took it to an entirely new level when they allowed three UNC defensive players to basically pick Josh Nesbitt up, carry him five yards, and piledrive him behind the line of scrimmage. Maybe they confused their whistles with their pacifiers? All I can figure is that they were too busy sucking on them to blow them, ending the play and protecting one of the players that they are supposed to be looking out for on the field!
Its one thing when incompetence impacts the outcome of a game. Its dangerous when incompetence threatens the safety of players.
Those guys should be ashamed of themselves.
Who were they?
- Referee: Tom DeJoseph
- Umpire: Mike Webster
- Linesman: Michael Kelley
- Line judge: Sterling Allen
- Back judge: Delbert Bell
- Field judge: David Meslow
- Side judge: Jim Corpora
I hope we don’t see these guys referee another game at Tech for a very long time.
I hope both Paul Johnson and Dan Radakovich have placed calls to John Swofford up in his cushy ACC offices. Maybe he’ll take off his Carolina blue long enough to make a statement and do something now that the normally craptacular ACC officials have crossed the line into being dangerously incompetent.
