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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2844650, member: 289"] - The Pac 12 refs did the game and they made the ACC refs look like geniuses. Jamal Custis got held on one play, (at least), and had a guy plow into him who didn’t turn-around, usually an automatic interference call. No flag in either case but there was one when Jamal simply turned around to catch a long one down the sidelines and actual contact was minimal. More seriously, Eric Dungy was hit after a slide and twice after passes, no call. On one of them he was knocked for a loop and came up limping. That kid must have bruises on top of his bruises. The game was getting very chippy as a result and I thought there’s surely be a brawl but the refs finally decided to call some penalties, including a severe targeting call that took both Taj Harris and the perpetrator, Kenny Robinson, out of the game, Harris because of a sore neck and perhaps a concussion, Robinson because he was disqualified. But it was the beginning of getting the game under control. - We made some incredibly stupid penalties, a total of 11 for 90 yards. Many were “concentration” penalties: false start, illegal motion, delay of game. Then there was Jamal Custis tackling a guy – around the neck- when all he had to do was stand there and his defended could not have gotten to Nykeim Johnson, who had the ball. And Evan Adams flying down the field, (as best a 330 pounder can fly), downfield to blow up a tackler who already had Johnson on the ground and after the refs had already called forward progress and blown the whistle. - In the first half we could not protect Dungey and, as a result he struggled, throwing two interceptions. Most of this 31 yards lost from 5 sacks happened in that half. Some of it was coverage sacks but most of it was guys blowing in unblocked, usually because the ‘Neers overloaded one side of the line. I really can’t blame Dungey for much of it, although I can blame him for throwing an interception over the middle with 15 seconds left when we had no time outs. - We led at the half but it didn’t seem like it. It seemed only a matter of time until West Virginia took over the game. Instead we did. But I wouldn’t call it a ‘fun’ game until the late going. - Andrew Szmyt, who once seemed a lock to set the national record for field goals in a season, (31 is the record), came up one short of tying it. He doesn’t care, either. - Neither of West Virginia’s two quarterbacks impressed me at all. Trey Lowe was 2 for 2 – for 2 yards. He went out after getting pancaked on a sack. Jack Daniels completed 17 passes for 277 yards but never got it into the end zone through the air and threw a big interception. He got sacked 4 times. A lot of his passes were badly off the mark. He looked like the sort of quarterbacks we used to have in the G-Rob era. - Much of Daniel’s 277 yards came on blown coverages by SU. I shudder to think what Grier might have done to us if he had played. I could see West Virginia getting a big half-time lead and we never catch them. Caesar said “I came I saw, I conquered”. Grier never came, although I assume he was watching on TV. We conquered. [/QUOTE]

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