Sipple's intriguing statistic

[Nebula]

Aside from the Klein situation, the only thing I have a true gripe about is the non-calls on holding against our D Line. This, as I've mentioned before, is a long-standing gripe of mine (as in, I've been bitching about this for years, well before we moved to the Big 10). I do not give a damn about "protecting the quarterback." If they're holding, CALL IT.

I doubt the refs have any stake in whether Nebraska stays or goes in the Big XII, so I doubt there's a conspiracy amongst them to call penalties against us/turn a blind eye towards our opponents. The stats are interesting, and maybe there's something to them, but likely not much.

The really true story here is that the Big XII has piss-poor officials for the most part.

Anyone know how the officials are in the Big 10?

You're not alone in feeling that way. I preface this by saying that I truly believe it's almost impossible to maintain an unwaveringly objective viewpoint when it comes to the fairness of officiating in regards to a team you have an emotional investment in, but we never get the benefit of a holding call. It's insane. I would love to know how many holding calls have gone against us over the last decade, how many have gone our way, and what the league average is in both categories in contrast to us.

 

[zoogs]

I wonder if these statistics are only from games with Big 12 officiating crews. I suspect it might not be.

For fun, let's compare Nebraska and Texas side-by-side.

Nebraska: 70 against, 46 for opponents.

Texas: 65 against, 59 for opponents

Not really a big difference IMO Not a lot of penalties have been called against Nebraska's opponents, but nothing very suspicious here. Of course, conspiracy perpetrators would make it that way, wouldn't they?

I posted the following yesterday...

Definitely an interesting stat from Ubben (nice to see him doing some analysis for a change). Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see where Texas sits in all of this.
Texas has been flagged 65 times in 10 games (5 less than NU), and Texas opponents have been flagged 59 times.

When we squared off with TU, we were flagged 10 times, while the Horns were flagged only 4 times. So, take away their matchup with NU, and TU is averaging 6.8 penalties per game while their opponent is averaging 5.4 penalties.

While this further supports the theory that Nebraska is getting hosed, it's still not as telling as Ubben's find. Based on that, I'd say Nebraska may be more of target of shotty calls than Texas being aided by the refs.

Oops. My bad. Could have saved me some time!

There were a couple games where the Horns were flagged 10+ times and their opponents were flagged 5 or so.