Penalties Still an Issue

[Enhance]

Penalties continued to be a sore for the Nebraska football team.

According to Huskers.com, we had 11 penalties for 104 yards. It doesn't matter who you are playing, these penalties are unacceptable, not to mention the multiple false starts at home.

False starts should never be an issue at home.

But, I still have to give some heat where heat is deserved as far as the referees go. They had a few calls that were extremely questionable last night and also missed a couple of key ones, but there were two that really stuck out to me.

Bad call: Block in the back called on (I think) Dejon Gomes sometime in the second half. He hit the OU defender in the back/corner part of his shoulder pad with his own shoulder, and he barely touched the guy.

Missed call: On one of our punts in the second half, an OU defender hit one of our guys with his hands square in the back numbers, and this call went unnoticed. They have to call this both ways if they are going to call it one way.

All in all, we definitely had penalties that are fixable, but the refs in the Big 12 are continuing to grade out poorly week in and week out. This issue needs to have a lot of time spent on it both at the team level and at the Big 12 officiating level.

 

[Bo-Nose]

Have you ever seen that Buffalo Wild Wings commercial where the patrons are all watching the live game and the Referee interrupts the game during one of the play reviews and asks the resteraunt crowd how he should make the call? The crowd tells the ref that they want to go to overtime so the ref obliges and makes a terrible call much to the enjoyment of the resteraunt crowd.

Sometimes I think that actually happens when they look into the review camera.

 

[holvy83]

These are penalties that should have been cleared up after the first couple games, but game 8 and these stupid mistakes are still taking place is flat out JV crap.

 

[J_2_THA_BONE]

These are penalties that should have been cleared up after the first couple games, but game 8 and these stupid mistakes are still taking place is flat out JV crap.

Agreed. It's pathetic really.

 

[irafreak]

I don't remember as many penalties in the second half (offensively). Do I have selective memory? It is ridiculous though.

 

[dergibog]

Penalties continued to be a sore for the Nebraska football team.

According to Huskers.com, we had 11 penalties for 104 yards. It doesn't matter who you are playing, these penalties are unacceptable, not to mention the multiple false starts at home.

False starts should never be an issue at home.

But, I still have to give some heat where heat is deserved as far as the referees go. They had a few calls that were extremely questionable last night and also missed a couple of key ones, but there were two that really stuck out to me.

Bad call: Block in the back called on (I think) Dejon Gomes sometime in the second half. He hit the OU defender in the back/corner part of his shoulder pad with his own shoulder, and he barely touched the guy.

Missed call: On one of our punts in the second half, an OU defender hit one of our guys with his hands square in the back numbers, and this call went unnoticed. They have to call this both ways if they are going to call it one way.

All in all, we definitely had penalties that are fixable, but the refs in the Big 12 are continuing to grade out poorly week in and week out. This issue needs to have a lot of time spent on it both at the team level and at the Big 12 officiating level.

The refs could use some improvement. 58 passing plays for OU and NO HOLDING penalties??? WTH???

How could the OU quarterback throw an underhand toss to OLineman (#77) five yards behind the line, between the tackles and not get an intentional grounding call???

But I'm over it. It was a great game, but some of the officiating just makes me want to puke.

 

[Chimpsmack]

Penalties continued to be a sore for the Nebraska football team.

According to Huskers.com, we had 11 penalties for 104 yards. It doesn't matter who you are playing, these penalties are unacceptable, not to mention the multiple false starts at home.

False starts should never be an issue at home.

But, I still have to give some heat where heat is deserved as far as the referees go. They had a few calls that were extremely questionable last night and also missed a couple of key ones, but there were two that really stuck out to me.

Bad call: Block in the back called on (I think) Dejon Gomes sometime in the second half. He hit the OU defender in the back/corner part of his shoulder pad with his own shoulder, and he barely touched the guy.

Missed call: On one of our punts in the second half, an OU defender hit one of our guys with his hands square in the back numbers, and this call went unnoticed. They have to call this both ways if they are going to call it one way.

All in all, we definitely had penalties that are fixable, but the refs in the Big 12 are continuing to grade out poorly week in and week out. This issue needs to have a lot of time spent on it both at the team level and at the Big 12 officiating level.

The refs could use some improvement. 58 passing plays for OU and NO HOLDING penalties??? WTH???

How could the OU quarterback throw an underhand toss to OLineman (#77) five yards behind the line, between the tackles and not get an intentional grounding call???

But I'm over it. It was a great game, but some of the officiating just makes me want to puke.

it was tough to see because of the angle on the replay, but it looked to me like OU was trying to set up a screen pass and Jones threw the ball down a couple yards short of the back. there's no doubt it was intentional, but there was an eligible receiver right there.

on the block in the back, did they actually call that on gomes? i can't find a replay, but during the game it looked to me like one of the other nebraska blockers came crashing down after the punt was fielded and hit someone in the back. didnt catch the number and i cant find the replay, but when i watched it during the game i got pretty fired up thinking it was being called on gomes, but after the replay i cooled off quick assuming the refs blamed it on the wrong guy

 

[Zerotide]

Have you ever seen that Buffalo Wild Wings commercial where the patrons are all watching the live game and the Referee interrupts the game during one of the play reviews and asks the resteraunt crowd how he should make the call? The crowd tells the ref that they want to go to overtime so the ref obliges and makes a terrible call much to the enjoyment of the resteraunt crowd.

Sometimes I think that actually happens when they look into the review camera.

I thought of this when they went back to review the out of bounds punt return spot AFTER 6 seonds had gone off the clock and OU had an incomplete pass. The refs essentially GAVE OU more time and another down! Ridiculous.

 

[shyndy]

Penalties continued to be a sore for the Nebraska football team.

According to Huskers.com, we had 11 penalties for 104 yards. It doesn't matter who you are playing, these penalties are unacceptable, not to mention the multiple false starts at home.

False starts should never be an issue at home.

But, I still have to give some heat where heat is deserved as far as the referees go. They had a few calls that were extremely questionable last night and also missed a couple of key ones, but there were two that really stuck out to me.

Bad call: Block in the back called on (I think) Dejon Gomes sometime in the second half. He hit the OU defender in the back/corner part of his shoulder pad with his own shoulder, and he barely touched the guy.

Missed call: On one of our punts in the second half, an OU defender hit one of our guys with his hands square in the back numbers, and this call went unnoticed. They have to call this both ways if they are going to call it one way.

All in all, we definitely had penalties that are fixable, but the refs in the Big 12 are continuing to grade out poorly week in and week out. This issue needs to have a lot of time spent on it both at the team level and at the Big 12 officiating level.

The refs could use some improvement. 58 passing plays for OU and NO HOLDING penalties??? WTH???

How could the OU quarterback throw an underhand toss to OLineman (#77) five yards behind the line, between the tackles and not get an intentional grounding call???

But I'm over it. It was a great game, but some of the officiating just makes me want to puke.

it was tough to see because of the angle on the replay, but it looked to me like OU was trying to set up a screen pass and Jones threw the ball down a couple yards short of the back. there's no doubt it was intentional, but there was an eligible receiver right there.

on the block in the back, did they actually call that on gomes? i can't find a replay, but during the game it looked to me like one of the other nebraska blockers came crashing down after the punt was fielded and hit someone in the back. didnt catch the number and i cant find the replay, but when i watched it during the game i got pretty fired up thinking it was being called on gomes, but after the replay i cooled off quick assuming the refs blamed it on the wrong guy

See, this is the problem with the way that INTENTIONAL grounding is handled these days, IMO