How?????

[storange]

The guys here that always defend the officiating, how do you miss that call . Wax s Jersey coming out . How , it wasn’t hidden in a group of players, how???

 

[capeorange]

The guys here that always defend the officiating, how do you miss that call . Wax s Jersey coming out . How , it wasn’t hidden in a group of players, how???

I'm not one of the guys who defend the refs but here are my best guesses.
Willingly? Intentionally? Financial incentive? Hate the Cuse? Blind?

 

[kingtidge]

It's baby jesus' fault... he hates us.

 

[storange]

I'm not one of the guys who defend the refs but here are my best guesses.
Willingly? Intentionally? Financial incentive? Hate the Cuse? Blind?

In defense of the officials, if they were fixing the game they would be a lot less obvious. They were so bad at it they couldn’t have been.

 

[jgeorge322]

The guys here that always defend the officiating, how do you miss that call . Wax s Jersey coming out . How , it wasn’t hidden in a group of players, how???

it was disgustingly blatant considering how close it was to the QB; I suspect the refs saw it and swallowed the whistle because they were afraid to make the call; i doubt it is anything insidious but it was just so bad

 

[kingtidge]

In defense of the officials, if they were fixing the game they would be a lot less obvious.

Honestly, I don't think they don't give a rat's arse and think they are untouchable, which is largely the case.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

I haven't seen anybody "defend" the officiating. In my case, I feel we got screwed but at the same time I realize that it happens. As for the reason in this particular case, I have no clue.

 

[Cuse12]

It is one thing to defend a missed call where the guy gets 8 yards on a handoff. But I can not hold back when it single handedly was the factor that made the game winning play a cake walk. Just sad. But, as the old saying goes, just win baby. Gotta be good enough where we are not in said situation. but, still sucks a lot.

 

[qdawgg]

it was disgustingly blatant considering how close it was to the QB; I suspect the refs saw it and swallowed the whistle because they were afraid to make the call; i doubt it is anything insidious but it was just so bad

Exactly my feeling. Scared to make the call.

 

[capeorange]

In defense of the officials, if they were fixing the game they would be a lot less obvious. They were so bad at it they couldn’t have been.

In that case, I'll have to go with frickin blind.

 

[jgeorge322]

Exactly my feeling. Scared to make the call.

kind of like at the end of a basketball game when a player tries to draw a foul at the rim in a tied game; don't want to see game end that way; that said, this would have sent game to overtime

 

[JeremyCuse]

it was disgustingly blatant considering how close it was to the QB; I suspect the refs saw it and swallowed the whistle because they were afraid to make the call; i doubt it is anything insidious but it was just so bad

Believe your 100% accurate here. Also people forget but these kind of awful calls happen on a weekly basis throughout college football. How many times have people commented on here or just in general about multiple missed calls in a game or officials flagging non-existent penalties ie the Pats vs Bucs game last night. Its more recognizable because its us but this crap happens weekly.

 

[storange]

Believe your 100% accurate here. Also people forget but these kind of awful calls happen on a weekly basis throughout college football. How many times have people commented on here or just in general about multiple missed calls in a game or officials flagging non-existent penalties ie the Pats vs Bucs game last night. Its more recognizable because its us but this crap happens weekly.

Cool, I am counting on a couple of s—-$ calls going our way soon to win games………..I’m also selling the Brooklyn Bridge if you believe that make me an offer.

 

[djcon57]

I would lean to scared to make the call if it was on an island, but it wasn’t

EVERY close call. The TDs. the reviews, I can’t think of one break we got from the refs.

do I think it was fixed? No.
do I think the refs wanted to give FSU a hometown call? Yes.

 

[djcon57]

Believe your 100% accurate here. Also people forget but these kind of awful calls happen on a weekly basis throughout college football. How many times have people commented on here or just in general about multiple missed calls in a game or officials flagging non-existent penalties ie the Pats vs Bucs game last night. Its more recognizable because its us but this crap happens weekly.

Id suggest the nfl is the opposite at end of games.

they forget illegal contact for 3 and 1/2 quarters then it comes out on a 4th and 10 to end the game.

nfl is a tv product and I believe they call their games to build drama.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Maybe they just wanted the game to not go into overtime so they could get out of dodge.

 

[storange]

Honestly, I don't think they don't give a rat's arse and think they are untouchable, which is largely the case.

It’s ok it’s my last post about it, made the mistake of watching game again this morning, we’re better then FSU , it hurts.

 

[jgeorge322]

I would lean to scared to make the call if it was on an island, but it wasn’t

EVERY close call. The TDs. the reviews, I can’t think of one break we got from the refs.

do I think it was fixed? No.
do I think the refs wanted to give FSU a hometown call? Yes.

they got all the reviews right... it tough when the call on the field doesn't go your way.

 

[qdawgg]

we’re better then FSU , it hurts.

That’s what sucks. It’s not like the nfl and there are 16 games. The margin for error is much smaller, getting a call wrong and contributing to us losing is a big deal at the end of the season.

 

[kuethstheman]

When I defend the refs, it's only to say that there's so much you don't see (or don't pay attention to) that picking out their mistakes on big plays against us is misguided. The losing team of every reasonably close game can point to blown calls that might have cost them the game. If we'd won, I have no doubt FSU fans could have had similar complaints.

 

[storange]

When I defend the refs, it's only to say that there's so much you don't see (or don't pay attention to) that picking out their mistakes on big plays against us is misguided. The losing team of every reasonably close game can point to blown calls that might have cost them the game. If we'd won, I have no doubt FSU fans could have had similar complaints.

Not true, if your saying calls are missed every game then yes, I agree, absurdly blatant mistakes on the games final play from scrimmage do not happen all the time. I don’t believe the refs cost us any of the 10 losses last year, likewise the 8 in 19. We have lost many close games that I have not complained, I think the refs directly caused us to lose in 98 to Tennessee, less then a handful since. This is one.

 

[RF2044]

Yeah, this one was really bad.

I get that holding is difficult to regulate, that it happens / could be called nearly every play, and that sometimes they are called when they probably shouldn't be and sometimes not called when they should. Everybody who watches football understands that.

But when you have a defender who is massively impeded by an OL who won't let go of him, and it happens right in front of a ball carrier that the defender would have probably dropped for a loss, then it is inexcusable to miss or not make that call. I tend to think that there are too many whistles / flags, and that some of it doesn't need to be called if it doesn't give one team a blatant advantage on the play. This one did.

 

[Entropic]

they got all the reviews right... it tough when the call on the field doesn't go your way.

The GS touchdown was totally blown because the initial call on the field. It appeared like he was on top of the defender but couldn't be determined without doubt. How that was called down initially from the refs vantage point is beyond me he had no angle to make that determination.

 

[MikeSU02]

The guys here that always defend the officiating, how do you miss that call . Wax s Jersey coming out . How , it wasn’t hidden in a group of players, how???

Here's the thing - you can always pick up the flag after the fact.

If the ref didn't want to make the call without a second opinion, he could have thrown the flag and then huddled and got a second set of eyes (I'm not a ref, I know they all aren't looking at the same thing, but that was right at the point of attack on the ball).

 

[kuethstheman]

Not true, if your saying calls are missed every game then yes, I agree, absurdly blatant mistakes on the games final play from scrimmage do not happen all the time. I don’t believe the refs cost us any of the 10 losses last year, likewise the 8 in 19. We have lost many close games that I have not complained, I think the refs directly caused us to lose in 98 to Tennessee, less then a handful since. This is one.

There's no argument that we probably would have won if they'd called that play correctly but made all other calls and non-calls exactly as they did. My point is that there were other non-calls that did/would have changed the game in our favor. Concluding that we were robbed because of an absurdly blatant mistake on the game's final play ignores non-calls that benefitted us throughout the game and every game.