fig96
Walk-on
Totally agree with you. I said tickytack because we had a former A&M offensive line player break down all of A&M's offensive series vs Baylor in a TexAgs article and he couldn't see a penalty on either play, the exact same formation was used throughout the game with no penalties. The ref appears to have called our receiver in the inside slot as lining up on the line of scrimmage when he was clearly at least a yard back.That's going around right now, Big 12 officiating as a whole has just been abysmal.I do worry about the officating in the CCG. We are already last in the con in number of flags thrown on our competition(no-calls are more subtle than calls). I worry the calls/no-calls could become not-so-subtle in effort to keep us from walking away with the championship
I'm not a conspiracy theorist type but last week A&M had 3 td's called back ON THE SAME DRIVE, once for a legitimate offensive interference call and the other two on ticky tack illegal formation/illegal man downfield penalties. As of the OU game our opponents had been called for holding twice the entire season which borders on the ridiculous.
That being said I don't the bad officiating is targeted, it's just plain bad.
As a former ref. I must ask how and why you believe illegal formation and illegal man downfield is ticky tack? I didn't see the game or the penalties your talking about, but illegal formation is very basic. I'm assuming you didn't have enough men on the line of scrimmage. It's pretty hard to miss that one. Illegal formation is about as ticky tack as false start as far as I'm concerned. Illegal man downfield is also for the most part a pretty straight forward call. Of the three penalties you listed, the offensive interference is the most subjective.