Ohio State Refereeing Lowlights

RavHuskr said:
Somewhat quietly the targeting call against the Ohio State player got overturned so he now doesn't have to sit the first half against Penn State.
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I don't know how the refs came to their conclusion, which is self defeating as far as I can tell. If they rule it a catch, that means he has established himself as not defenseless, and therefore it isn't targeting. If it is targeting, it wasn't a catch because it was due to him being defenseless. Somehow, they came up with both a catch AND targeting.

 
A couple of those seem like good calls. The tOSU/Oregon OPI, Colorado/Nebraska no catch, and VaTech/Miami hail marry for sure.

 
Saunders said:
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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Prove that and we can make a movie. 

 
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Lorewarn said:
I don't know how the refs came to their conclusion, which is self defeating as far as I can tell. If they rule it a catch, that means he has established himself as not defenseless, and therefore it isn't targeting. If it is targeting, it wasn't a catch because it was due to him being defenseless. Somehow, they came up with both a catch AND targeting.
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To some extent I can forgive the on field refs, but the booth keeps botching stuff. 
 

Did hear correctly that there is extra ref on the field this year?  Seems there’s always one getting trucked in the middle of the play.  

 
ZRod said:
A couple of those seem like good calls. The tOSU/Oregon OPI, Colorado/Nebraska no catch, and VaTech/Miami hail marry for sure.
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Yeah, I didn't look through them all.  But I would say there are definitely a few that really aren't that bad.

And that's why I don't think reffing is nearly as bad as many people think it is.  People just like to think things are worse than they are.

 
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Mavric said:
Yeah, I didn't look through them all.  But I would say there are definitely a few that really aren't that bad.

And that's why I don't think reffing is nearly as bad as many people think it is.  People just like to think things are worse than they are.
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I have a tough time saying it's worse than it has been, say the last 5 years, but it's not good... And it's not just the B1G either, it's all of college football. It baffles me that the none of the conference have dedicated full-time professional officials, or that we still don't have transparency and accountability on their performances.

 
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ZRod said:
I have a tough time saying it's worse than it has been, say the last 5 years, but it's not good... And it's not just the B1G either, it's all of college football. It baffles me that the none of the conference have dedicated full-time professional officials, or that we still don't have transparency and accountability on their performances.
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I think it's mostly more games on TV, more camera angles of everything and people thinking their favorite team is getting screwed all the time.

Also not helping are the convoluted way they have to try to determine a catch in the era of replay and the fact that holding has been instructed to be a judgement call where most people see holding everywhere.

And .... yeah .... refs just don't see everything.

 
Mavric said:
I think it's mostly more games on TV, more camera angles of everything and people thinking their favorite team is getting screwed all the time.

Also not helping are the convoluted way they have to try to determine a catch in the era of replay and the fact that holding has been instructed to be a judgement call where most people see holding everywhere.

And .... yeah .... refs just don't see everything.
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Yeah, I'm a pretty realistic person and I understand that a ref can't see everything. That's part of the art of football, is learning what you can get away with because it can't be seen, but I think the inconsistency is what has gotten worse over time. I don't believe there is a bias (our last season in the Big IIX aside), but like you said there are too many subjective calls now.

 
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ZRod said:
I don't believe there is a bias (our last season in the Big IIX aside), but like you said there are too many subjective calls now.
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There are also many "make up" calls, wherein one or more of the refs will flag a play in favor of the team he flagged in error a play or two ago.  Often appearing to be done to erase a growing impression that he had been biased in his calls, or just made a mistake that took him a while to realize. 

 
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