why is officiating so BAAAAD....

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law_bee

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it use to be b/c officials DID NOT have the benefit of instant replay they missed some calls.

I accepted that. But with instant replay SOMETIMES they just IGNORE the evidence of the replay.

The BLOWN call during the navy game was like the refs were shaving points. The announcers were just dumbfounded. The officials DID REVIEW the play but then just purposefully ignored the rules.

It may have cost Navy the game. After that NBA official on "the take" I wonder if college refs are being investigated properly. We have had some video replay calls that were blown against us as well.
 
I think if a play is reviewed, the call then lies in the lap of the guys upstairs in the replay booth.

That said, way an insane amount of calls are now being reviewed. Too many officials are just using IR as a crutch. They seem to be saying "it doesn't matter how we call it on the field, let's just send it upstairs and let them figure it out."
 
What call was blown by the replay booth? I was switching between the Ponsettia and the Steelers game.

EDIT: Never mind, found it. Baffles me, too. You would think that they would know the rules of the game. And I agree with JoltinJacket. I really think that they should switch to the NFL's rule of replay, with coaches challenge. Some games just get ridiculous with the amount of reviewing.
 
I think they should just let the announcers make the call. They get it correct more times than the refs actually do...that's for sure.
 
The officiating is so bad because the calls always go against Tech. The only good calls are against the other team.

Seriously, think about it from a ref's point of view. We have the benefit of top down views, instant replays and different angles. I didn't see the call, stopped watching during the 3rd, so I can't comment on that.

As for letting announcers make the call. You would honestly want the likes of Larry Munson, or God forbid, Lou Holtz making calls? There were times during that game last night that I think Lou Holtz forgot where he was. I amazed he remembered his pants. The only thing missing was him rambling about Chinese food, then talking about making it with a one legged hooker in 1964.
 
Allen Koholic said:
The officiating is so bad because the calls always go against Tech. The only good calls are against the other team.]

Did I miss aTECH game last night? I thought we were discussing the blown call by the replay official in the Poinsettia Bowl.

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Can someone tell me what call was blown and when in the game it was blown? I was able to watch all of the first half after Pitt-Duke went off, but I wasn't able to catch but a minute or two of the 2nd half
 
augustabuzz said:
Allen Koholic said:
The officiating is so bad because the calls always go against Tech. The only good calls are against the other team.]

Did I miss aTECH game last night? I thought we were discussing the blown call by the replay official in the Poinsettia Bowl.

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That was an attempt at sarcasm. I didn't bother finding a lame "irony smiley" to use. I could have as easily have said 'Calls always go against <team I love more then my own life itself>', but as this is a board for fans of the only school that matters, I figured it was a given.
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gtfan1147 said:
Can someone tell me what call was blown and when in the game it was blown? I was able to watch all of the first half after Pitt-Duke went off, but I wasn't able to catch but a minute or two of the 2nd half
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There were only a few minutes left in the game, with Utah up by 3, when a Utah player caught a pass out in the flats, and was forced out of bounds inside the one. However, he lost the ball well before any part of his body hit out of bounds, and the ball (after it left his hand) hit the front pylon of the endzone. Thus, it should have been a touchback, and Navy's ball. The play was reviewed, and the refs still gave Utah the ball inside the 1. Navy stuffed Utah on 4th down, and got the ball back on their 1 inch line. They ended up getting stopped on a 4th down play, and Utah scored a TD shortly after.
 
Thanks for the info. Interesting. What irks me about replay is that the replay officials seem to see a call, and say to themselves, "Well, it's true that they got it wrong on the field, but since it's only a regular error and not an egregious one, I won't make them look bad by overturning it."

That's what bothers me.
 
I missed that part of the game, and that actually is a pretty bad call. Most casual fans know that one. What officiating crew was responsible for that? Are they sending ACC refs out to West Coast?
 
I don't remember the play, but the pylon is part of the endzone but still in bounds, correct? So just hitting the pylon would not have made it a touchback if I remember the rules correctly. It would have had to go out of the endzone. If the ball bounced back and went out of bounds short of the endzone, then it still would have been Utah's ball, right?
 
No, fumbling the ball into the pylon is a touchback. See the Cal/Oregon game that was the high water mark for Cal before the season capsized on them.
 
Allen Koholic said:
No, fumbling the ball into the pylon is a touchback. See the Cal/Oregon game that was the high water mark for Cal before the season capsized on them.
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How about seeing the last Tech-UGA game?

It has to go out of bounds or get recovered by the opposing team to be touchback I believe, if you recover it yourself, it's a touchdown.
 
I cited the Oregon/Cal game, because it was the exact same situation - hitting the pylon - rather then simply having the bad luck of skittering out the end zone.

I'm sure the actual rules are a mess, and I'm too lazy to look them up, but anyone getting paid to ref these games should know that one.
 
I just looked it up and apparently the pylons are out of bounds in NCAA football. Odd.
 
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