WHAT'S THE WORST CALL YOU'VE SEEN AGAINST GT?

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Re: WHAT\'S THE WORST CALL YOU\'VE SEEN AGAINST GT?

One football, one basketball. The football one was the onside kick we recovered against FSU in 1992 that they gave to them. In basketball, against UVA at the end of a game, an UVA defender grabbed Price's jersey on our inbound play and pulled him over on top of him. Right in front of Lenny Wirtz. Price was called for the charge. Horrendous officiating but I believe this things have a way of averaging out.
 
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Goldbuzz, I don't doubt you that SC cited a perceived bias in officiating when they pulled out of the ACC. But weren't they also upset about the ACC unilaterally adopting a minimum 800 ACC score for student-athletes, at a time when the rest of the NCAA had no minimum at all? Seems like, not too long back, someone posted that Clemson considered leaving the ACC at about the same time over that 800 minimum.
 
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Tuckerjacket,

You may be correct. There is post on the Hive about it by Army Jacket stating I am wrong.

He may be correct. It was long time ago. But I do know that at the press conference - biased officiating was cited. And other historical accounts cited that as the reason. As to whether there were other factors such as the minimum SAT score, Army Jacket seems to have an informed opinion.
 
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Here is one that goes way back, but it was unbelievable - AT Duke...

Tech vs Duke, back when S. Jones was early in his career, so it must have been '88 (?)

We were playing duke (when they were pretty good)
It was a close game - the last play of the half. Tech had the ball ~ the 50 yd line (my seats were on the 50, so this was right in front of me)...
Jones back to pass; no one open, so he scrambled 50 yards to score....Just as he was crossing the goal line, the official (who had been in the offensive backfield), thus was back on Tech's 40, , 60+ yards from the goal - throws a flag for holding...I have no idea where the holding could have been, because by this time the official was > 60 yards from the goal - - what was amazing was that he threw the flag so LATE, and he was so far from the play...Unbelievable home cooking,..I'll never forget...And it was subtle - if I hadn't coincidentally glanced towards him, I would have assumed he called it as the play first developed (ie when Jones was in the backfield, before the scramble), not ~ 15 seconds later....Oh well
 
WHAT\'S THE WORST CALL YOU\'VE SEEN AGAINST GT?

I know many of you think the officiating calls that go against us are incidental and are the result of the ref's dong the best they can.

In the early years in the ACC, we were the redheaded stepchild and couldn't get a call.

The most blatant bad call I can remember is a non-televised game against top five ranked UVA in the early 1980's. With time essentially out, and with the Jackets down by one or two, Brooke Steppe hit a jumper from about 20 feet. There was a little contact on his hands as he released the ball. There was a whistle and everyone in the place (Alexander) thought Steppe would be going to the line - BUT NO - they called charging on Steppe.

Have you ever seen charging called on by the shooter of a jump shot? That's the only time I've seen it. Note that this was a straight up jump - like he had shot literally thousands of times. I dare say that was the only time in Brooke Steppe's life that charging was called on him taking a jump shot. And I dare say that was only time he had ever seen it called.

Those of you who think that bad calls are accidents - I submit to you as I posted earlier - THE ONLY REASON WE ARE IN THE ACC IS THAT SOUTH CAROLINA PULLED OUT BECAUSE OF DISGUST WITH PRO TOBACCO ROAD OFFICIATING.

In our early years in the ACC, we got hammered call after call and game after game. And I always remembered what one gray headed intelligent and prominent - and one not likely to subscribe to conspiracy theories - member of the University of South Carolina athletic community told me when I expressed excitement over our joining the ACC - " I don't think you will like it. The league is run out of the state of North Carolina, those teams are favored in the officiating. Most of the officials live in North Carolina, are self-employed - such as life insurance salesmen, with customers who are fans of the Tobacco Road schools".

Well. I thought we had grown out of our red-headed step child role but it seems now - twenty or so years later that for some reason in football - FSU has control of the officials. I don't know if somehow Bowden ingratiates himself to the officials or if the officials favor FSU because of their national standing or what, but I do know that in the last two times that FSU played here that the bad calls were too numerous to be incidental.

Bad calls are not necessarily accidents.

By the way, what is your memory of the worst call against Georgia Tech?

NOTE: I know many of you are too young to remember the University of South Caroling pulling out of the ACC and may find it overly incredulous that a university would pull out of a conference solely because of perceived biased officiating and probably think there were other factors involved.
Shortly after the ACC basketball tournament South Carolina officials called a press conference, rescinded all agreements making them a part of the ACC and cited solely as the reason –BIASED OFFICIATING.
Now that's a way to respond to some bad calls!
That left seven teams in the ACC - they wanted eight again, so they invited us.
 
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Goldrush, I had forgotten that one. Thanks.
 
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Originally posted by goldbuzz:
Tuckerjacket,

You may be correct. There is post on the Hive about it by Army Jacket stating I am wrong.

He may be correct. It was long time ago. But I do know that at the press conference - biased officiating was cited. And other historical accounts cited that as the reason. As to whether there were other factors such as the minimum SAT score, Army Jacket seems to have an informed opinion.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">I think ArmyJacket is correct. He's married to a USC fan and he's a big Gamecock fan when he's not rooting for the Jackets. If he says something about USC, then take it for the truth.
 
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The worst call against Tech was the 5th down in the CU-Mizzou game. That cost us an undisputed national championship.

Outside of that, I'd say the '92 FSU onside kick "recovery" by FSU was pretty bad.
 
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Goldbuzz

Do you remember that call ?
Were you at that game ?

It was just kind of obscure (ie, not on TV, not a big game, not at Tech etc) - I figured I was the only one who saw it (and of course, everybody I was with)..
 
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Georgia vs. Georgia Tech, Grant Field under the lights, if I recall it was in the mid 70s.

Georgia was driving, inside our 20, went for it with fourth and a yard. Great front line stand. Ref orders a measurement and they literally stretched the chain till it broke! First Down Georgia!
 
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Thanks for the info bugboy, but as I stated - I am not going to argue about the South Carolina issue. It happened 31 years ago and I am sure selective memories affect how people look at it - including me.

I will say, I specifically remember biased officiating cited at the press conference announcing the withdrawal and I specifically remember reading a historical account of the incident which cited biased officiating. I don't know if the author knew what he was talking about and I really do not care.

If, in fact, USC didn't want to cite the real reason - that they wanted to play with stupid athletes; I can accept that. And maybe the SAT rationale was also cited and I just don't remember it. That is also very plausable. As I stated, I don't doubt that Army Jacket is correct about what happened behind the scenes.

But the purpose of my thread is to point out that complaining about officiating is not necessarily acting as a sore loser, or being unsportsmanlike, that sometimes some pretty upstanding and prominent leaders have decided to stand up and say enough is enough. Just the fact that biased officiating was cited at the press conference is sufficient to serve my purposes and assist in making my point.

And that is, that it is time for us to say enough is enough and stand up and let the transgressors know we are not going to take it anymore.
 
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