USC gets rooked by ref
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NCAA officials are evaluated and graded on every play in a game.
Below is the link on how the process works in the SEC. I know this is similar to other conferences, which you can research at your own leisure.
SEC Football Officiating Evaluation and Accountability - Southeastern Conference
SEC Football Officiating Evaluation and Accountabilitywww.secsports.com
So if a conference really wants a certain team to win, wouldn’t this be a process to encourage that? Officials need to be evaluated by an uninterested party. Create a national committee to do that (cause the NCAA would **** that up too). Do it like basketball and don’t have conference specific officials.
Do you honestly think conferences are actively encouraging officials to favor certain teams and that has ever leaked out?
Any close game there are multiple plays that would change the outcome. Including bad calls. We arent supposed to have bad calls, but they happen, just like dropped passes and missed FGs.
The ISSUE here is, are the conference officials protecting teams (miami, psu) in order to get them into the CFP and reap 10s of millions of addl dollars? THAT is the question.
They certainly have means, motive and opportunity. Its easy to understand why these accusations are being made, and its incumbent on the conferences to visibly demonstrate its false. Otherwise you risk becoming the WWE.
The officiating is as much of an influence as the players. For example, let’s say an official makes a mistake on 5 plays. Those mistakes can directly influence the outcome of the game. Also, let’s say the team had 5 crucial mistakes, and those 5 mistakes directly had an influence on the outcome of the game.
In a close game, any one of those 10 mistakes could be pointed to as to the reason a team lost. It’s easy to simply blame the officials, but there also are just as many mistakes the team made that led to the loss. It’s simply a matter of what people want to focus on
1 of the things that I have found to be true throughout my life, is that the more people that know a “secret” the less likely it is to stay secret.
There were over 200 officials working games in P4 conferences this weekend. That’s a lot of people to keep that big of a secret.
Take the tin foil hat off and realize these are part time officials who make mistakes occasionally.
There certainly were a lot of favorable calls for Iowa State last night.
Football powerhouses getting jobbed for the sake of other football powerhouses can suck it. Welcome to the mega conferences that everyone is clamoring for.
I agree. It pays to undefeated and potentially rep the conference in the playoffs. You get the”benefit of the doubt.” Reminds me of the Baylor/TCU fiasco 10 years ago. Big 12 tried to make a decision in that game. Conferences have been playing that game for years now. Too much money involved.
This exactly, if they wanted, there would be plenty of justification based on loose interpretation of “when the slide starts “.
It wasn't a first down though so I think it would depend partially on if OSU was trying to call a timeout at the time.
I don’t think he got a first down, so they would have had to call timeout as he was sliding.
Edit: Beat me to it
Riley is 5-8 in his last 13 games at USC. He gets this “genius coach” label a lot without the winning and he’s paper soft with the media. No thanks.
Them not stopping the clock to review whether there was an interception or not was the worst to me.
