They scored one TD that wasn't aided by a turnover or targeting penalty.... Play this game 10 times and ISU wins 9 of them. Today wasn't our day.
Let’s talk about the refs
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Montgomery’s fumble should’ve been whistled dead for having his forward progress stopped imo, but they seem to rarely blow the whistle until they’re on the ground anymore.
Problem is... that we were on the other end of that against Texas in 2013 I think. J. George got the strip fumble and was running the other way before the guy was down, but the ref blew the play dead due to "forward progress"... which isn't an actual rule in college.
The first call on Harvey was just a boneheaded play, and I agree with it. The second one on Uwazarike was BS. And you got to love the other announcer for ESPN who was calling for Peavy to be expelled from the game too. I mean basically they wanted none of our starters left in the game.
In all of my life I have never seen a worse officiated game than this and I thought I'd never say that after last year's KSU fiasco. From the ground crew to the replay crew it was a total **** up.
-I counted at least three false starts on WSU (One for 6, another to secure the win) that the inept line judge failed to call.
-Minshew's knee was down on the near intentional grounding (not even a review)
-An argument to be made for Monty's forward progress being stopped on the fumble.
-Enyi's targeting call and ejection
With all of that I have also never seen a worse particular call and review than the Eaton "drop". The guy makes three football moves with clear possession, is down by contact before the ball comes out and is ruled incomplete ALL WITHOUT A BOOTH REVIEW causing us to challenge the obvious catch only to lose the challenge and a timeout.
***** and moan about penalties and turnovers we created all you want, but if you can't see that with fair officiating we win this game get ******.
As infuriating as it was to watch this unfold, I felt a cruel helplessness seeing the dejected faces of our players. Just as they were robbed of a win in Manhattan last year, they were robbed of an Alamo Bowl win tonight.
-I counted at least three false starts on WSU (One for 6, another to secure the win) that the inept line judge failed to call.
-Minshew's knee was down on the near intentional grounding (not even a review)
-An argument to be made for Monty's forward progress being stopped on the fumble.
-Enyi's targeting call and ejection
With all of that I have also never seen a worse particular call and review than the Eaton "drop". The guy makes three football moves with clear possession, is down by contact before the ball comes out and is ruled incomplete ALL WITHOUT A BOOTH REVIEW causing us to challenge the obvious catch only to lose the challenge and a timeout.
***** and moan about penalties and turnovers we created all you want, but if you can't see that with fair officiating we win this game get ******.
As infuriating as it was to watch this unfold, I felt a cruel helplessness seeing the dejected faces of our players. Just as they were robbed of a win in Manhattan last year, they were robbed of an Alamo Bowl win tonight.
They did review that catch because Campbell challenged. It was literally about 5 seconds, because, well minds were already made up.
***** all you want about the terrible referees (and they were terrible), but the biggest problem was when we gave them their first touchdown (on the second interception.. well plus a couple of plays). We had multiple examples of the team not being focused (false starts, other penalties, turnovers, untypical Cyclone play). The best way to avoid terrible referee calls is to not commit anything that looks like it should be called.
Anyway, given that we played so poorly, I'm glad we actually did as well as we did. Afterall, WSU, deservedly or not, was ranked #13 going into this thing, and we pushed them all night. Given that we had a bad night and still had a very good chance to win the game, I think that's something. A different night with different refs, and this could easily have been a win.
Anyway, given that we played so poorly, I'm glad we actually did as well as we did. Afterall, WSU, deservedly or not, was ranked #13 going into this thing, and we pushed them all night. Given that we had a bad night and still had a very good chance to win the game, I think that's something. A different night with different refs, and this could easily have been a win.
Watching these Big10 refs continually give us the shaft just makes me hate the Hawkeyes even more.
The refs were terrible, but this was still a game we could've won fairly easily. Purdy had two horrible interceptions, the offensive line jumped way too much, and at the most critical time on the 2PC, plus our kicker just missed that 50 yarder off the post. I wish ISU had gone for it instead of kicking the field goal since the offense was cruising at the time, but oh well. Had ISU fixed two of those three mistakes, we would've won by a touchdown. This one can't be pinned on the officiating..
If we wouldn't have made so many mistakes, we would have won.
If the refs wouldn't have made so many mistakes, we would have won.
If the refs wouldn't have made so many mistakes, we would have won.
For a late hit out of bounds? Sure he should have been penalized... for unnecessary roughness. Not for targeting, numbnuts.
Said by the fans who whined about Stanford's band, while getting their asses handed to them on the field in a game they were never in from the opening kick.
It's hilarious to me to listen to some of you people say " it wasn't the refs, we made too many mistakes to win". Don't you see, that's the point. When we made mistakes we got penalties, Washington state didn't.
This might be the closest CMC Ever comes to openly criticizing the refs
If you noticed, their line was shifting late almost every snap. okay unless they were making a shift call that was intentionally trying to draw our o line into movement. If so, one of the referees....never mind.
