This is why visit this site the day after a loss is frustrating. People have to blame someone else for the loss. It couldn’t be the players or the play calls from the staff. Nope.. it has to be officials
NOTEBOOK: On Jaylin Noel’s near TD on a kick return that was called back and more from ISU’s 28-21 loss to Kansas
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I really don’t think you know what mutually exclusive means.
Officiating errors and Iowa State’s own errors contributed to the loss beyond any reasonable doubt. It’s not even a question.
It’s not an either/or. It’s a both. No question. Nobody is saying “exclusively officiating blunders”. That blown call definitely had an impact. Somewhere between ISU’s pat % times 3 and 7 points times ISU’s turnover % if you want to get specific. The chances of zero points there are probably around 5%.
The mistakes you’re bringing up happened too. They’re both real and you’re setting up an idiotic fantasy where people have to ignore half of reality. Stop.
The guy arguing isu probably wouldn't have scored a td from the 2 yard line isn the guy losing an argument.
What ref mistakes did KU have to overcome? Why are you avoiding this?
Do you really think the game is the same if they don’t give up the pick 6? Or actually play well in the first half? They were horrendous on offense for most of the first half.
Great. It’s about 95% ISU and 5% officials. But hey… let’s focus on the 5%
Ku ran a lot of pick plays and got away with all of them. You do it until they call it.
You misread my comment. It CAN be the officials. They played a big part in a one score game. It's OK to say that. The officials huddled every penalty, which takes away home team momentum, made consistent bad calls, including at least one big game changing call.
I don't always blame officials... but here it's warranted
Sorry … there refs lost the game for ISU. BOOHOO. WAAAAAHHHHHH
THIS SITE IS FULL OF CRY BABIES
For your numbers to be right a fg would need to be worth .5 points and a td would need to be worth 2.5 points…that’s just on Noel’s return to the three without considering other officiating. Numbers exist bro.
Yep...it's only ok to blame the team, and not refs. Got it. Sound logic there.
Yep. There were 114 or so plays. Officials poor play played a role in about 5% of those plays. Numbers do exist
It’s hard to beat a good football team and the officials, especially when you don’t play your best game. No one here is saying the officiating is the definitive reason Iowa State lost, but it surely did not help anything. If they make the right call on the kick return the game probably looks different. Despite that, Iowa State didn’t really do enough to win the game. It can be true that the refs were bad and Iowa State was too.
Not really, totally changes the mindset and play calling of both teams.
So stop them on the fourth down play in the opening drive. Don’t throw the pick 6
Did I say that the officials were the only problem. No. What I said was that was an obvious **** up that caused us to likely lose 7 points at that point in the game. Let us have the points and see how everything turns out after that.
The one thing that you are forgetting is every decision made after pulling within 7 at that stage in the game changes. When Kansas REALLY had to make a play they may have had a case of the jitters and not caught it because of the pressure. It's like when you're up by 15 with 10 minutes to go in the game and you take a 3 pointer. Nothing is going through your head like " we HAVE to have this bucket, so you just do everything in a relaxed manner and voila, frontrunning wins again.
Hell , we could have scored there, let up on defense and lost 87 -7. I guess I just would have liked to have the option to know how it would play out without a VERY agregious call made against us.
You don't have to be perfect to win a game. You can get lucky, the other team can slip up and toss the ball to your guy and you run it in for a TD.
But what should never happen is an official calling a play dead when it is questionable, can be reviewed and is basically never blown dead in that case in any other circumstance. That is getting screwed to the Nth degree.
Awesome. Someone to tell us what we can and cannot discuss.
And the officals didn’t play as large of role in the loss as people here want to think it did
Awesome. Maybe people can actually understand the officials weren’t the main cause for the loss.
For those of you dumbing this, please explain what you find dumb. Hiding behind some stupid emoji is weak.
Use your words.
