Ohio State Refereeing Lowlights

teachercd said:
So I could see that, a grudge or bias.  That is human nature and I get that.  

When I used to coach football still I would tell my coaches to NEVER yell at the refs, always be nice, joke around stuff like that.  It never hurts to be nice to them.

I just don't think it is some big conspiracy.  
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I still think back to Johnny Orr on this.  He never got a technical foul for yelling at the refs and was asked about it on the radio one day. He basically said, when you don't agree with a call, you never go after the guy who made the call, you go after his buddy saying something like, "Hey, you're doing a great job....but that guy over there, what the hell was he thinking...that call sucked."

 
So entering our 14th year with the B1G, we’ve gone 7 years in conference play without a holding call when a B1G team plays Neb at home. 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2022. With some of those years not even registering a hold call at all. The penalty infamously regarded as one that can be called on every play in a football game, miraculously hasn’t happened for 7 years worth of road games. 
 

The cope trope I always hear when this is pointed out is “But our DL has been bad!”

Since 2011 we’ve had 7 DL taken as NFL draft picks. I obviously don’t know which Neb players were held in the games listed in the tweet. But this means that at best, for road conference play for our DL that were good enough to be drafted

- Jared Crick was held one time in 2011.

- Randy Gregory wasn’t held once in 2013 or 2014. 

- Maliek Collins and Vincent Valentine were held once in 2015. 

- The Davis twins were held once in 2019. 
 

- Ochaun Mathis wasn’t held once in 2022. 

It doesn’t need to be some elaborate conspiracy. A wink and nod is probably enough. 
 

Edit: Given the number of one score losses from 2018 to now, it makes one wonder how many games were lost from opponent scoring drives that would’ve been killed by a holding call. 

 
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teachercd said:
So I could see that, a grudge or bias.  That is human nature and I get that.  

When I used to coach football still I would tell my coaches to NEVER yell at the refs, always be nice, joke around stuff like that.  It never hurts to be nice to them.

I just don't think it is some big conspiracy.  
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No big conspiracies.  Agree.  That's nuts.  It's human nature at its worst as we try to have laws/rules/precepts we operate by with the help of rule and law enforcement entities.  Sports, unfortunately, is not exempt from violations of rules/integrity meted out by some of those enforcers:  the officials.  I wish it were rare, but it is not, and the intentional violations by the officials get mixed in with the inadvertent mistakes.  Both of those things in a game can take on the air of a conspiracy.  I reject that, but not the grudge or bias rampant out there now.

 
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308_Husker said:
The deeper you go, the worse it gets:

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Wishful Thinking if you think B1G officials will call a fair game that involves Nebraska. 

This conference HATES Nebraska. 

This conference HATES Nebraska fans.

This conference LOATHES inviting Nebraska.

and.. This conference will NEVER fairly officiate Nebraska.

This conference is all about politics and political agenda.. 

This conference couldn't care less about the student athlete.

This conference will at the first opportunity sell the souls of the athletes to earn a morsel of profit.

This conference is the WORST thing Nebraska has ever experienced and I'm betting a huge number of former coaches/players and maybe even administrators have huge regrets for getting involved with this conference.

 
Not that we need more of these, but a pretty obvious chop block on Butler as they sneaked it out of their own end zone. That's going to happen on the interior and teh refs can't see those well, but the end man on the line of scrimmage?





Would have likely been much less impactful than most of the calls, but backing them up even further after the play would have been an interesting development. Would they double down on the sneak, and would we be better equipped to stop it after seeing it on the previous play? Or would they change it up, with more potential for a big play for them or a safety for us? We'll never know. But they don't get a lot more obvious than this.

 
krc1995 said:
That’s why I hope Oregon wins the conference.  But in reality, there’s no reason for the conference to collude. I really think we’re a bunch of cry babies 
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There's Million$ Of Rea$on$ for them to collude. If OSU loses to us, then one more (like PSU this weekend), they're on the outside looking in for the playoff. And that costs the conference a ton of money.

 
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