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Searching on the referee, it would appear these guys are part-timers for the ACC who mostly do lower-division games.Officials: Referee: T. DeJoseph; Umpire: K. Roden; Linesman: J. Busch;
Line judge: J. Weiland; Back judge: V. Parker; Field judge: J. McGee;
Side judge: R. Boyd; Scorer: G. Campbell;
Is there a way to see a list of names of refs for each game?
I'm with you man!No --but is there a way to get your avatar naked? :cool:
To: John Swofford
Copy: Doug Rhoads
Subject: If you want to be a real football league
Mr. Swofford, it has become clear in the past several years that you wish to see the ACC join the ranks of the premier conferences in the country in football as well as in basketball. The poaching of the Big East ruined the perfect home and home basketball schedule that had made the ACC so special in hoops for years in return for a supposedly improved football product. Instead, ACC football has been something of a joke as the vaunted Florida teams have fallen apart.
It's not just the play on the field that's been putrid though, it's the entire ACC product - and in particular the complete incompetence of ACC officiating. This is a chronic problem that your office has refused to address, and instead subjected us fans to a number of mind-numbingly poorly officiated games with bizarre calls and complete lack of control over game situations. There's a reason that the two worst onfield brawls in recent years have occurred at ACC stadiums (USC and Clemson in '04, FIU and Miami in '06) - in fact, because of your insistence on using terribly inexperienced and frankly just bad officiating crews, I'm almost surprised that number isn't higher.
This Saturday was a perfect example of the total failure of your office to provide quality referees to ACC games. Early in the day during the Virginia at UNC game, one of the simplest calls in all of football (whether or not a field goal is good) was completely blown when the official responsible for the left upright was looking straight at the ground and ducking instead of tracking the flight of the ball. How the other official under the goalpost also managed to blow the call is inexplicable, short of being blind. Thankfully replay rightfully fixed the mistake, but the fact it was even needed was stunning.
That was just the appetizer though, as the main course of awful officiating came during what should have been a showcase game for the ACC. It's not been very often that you have had the chance to show a game between two top 25 ACC teams in primetime to a national TV audience - so assigning the best officiating crew in the conference would have made sense for the Boston College at Georgia Tech game. Oh, you had to send them to Miami because of your complete failure last year to provide even decent officials for the FIU game.
Instead, the ACC's first chance to shine in the public spotlight this year received a referee crew led by a guy who was doing Division 1 FCS Subdivision (wow, is that a mouthful) and Division 2 games. Nothing against Tom DeJoseph, but there was no reason he should have been the referee for such an important league game - Liberty v. St. Paul is much more his speed. Fans were treated to one of the worst overall officiated games in recent memory, with phantom pass interference and holding calls on both teams that continually stunted any momentum in the game, a blatantly missed replay challenge and a fumble call - thankfully fixed by replay, hooray on the 50% replay accuracy! - when the ball carrier was clearly on the ground. It was clear to everyone on both sidelines, in the stands and on TV that this crew had absolutely no clue what was going and no control over the game. Extracuricular activity on the field? Check. Crowd discontent and trash thrown on the field? Check. Embarrassing display by the ACC again on national TV? Check.
How on earth do you expect anyone to take this conference seriously as a football league when you can't provide the basic functions required of the league office? The ACC is clearly the worst officiated league in the country, and has been for several years - the crap you fed us fans last week was just the tip of the iceberg (ask Clemson and Maryland fans about their game in '06, for example). What is it going to take to fix this problem? An onfield brawl? Check that, a second onfield brawl? Um ... I mean a third onfield brawl?
Your conference has a serious credibility problem, and you need to fix it. NOW.
I saw it when it happened. Pretty ridiculous that a replay was needed to correct it.BTW, did you actually see the UVa "missed" field goal? Reading about it, I assumed it was one of those high kicks over the tops of the goal posts, or something at least remotely difficult to call. NOPE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0P9CsUibM
HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT CALL? WTF?
SiggedWe need lions to feed the refs to, like Christians in Rome.