Gene Smith vs Warde on bitching when you get screwed by refs

How does Gene Smith have a job still?  That guy has been the definition of corruption for years 

The problem is in slow-motion everything looks like a catch. Any contact with the hands around the football will look like a catch because they pause it for seconds and it looks, to our real-time brains, like a catch.

Play the replay at regular speed and it’s pretty obvious it wasn’t secured long enough to be a catch. 

I believe the ref on the field thought the pass was incomplete, but because of replay he allowed the play to continue. The problem with that is there has to be evidence to overturn the call. So he either stops the play (like what happened to Michigan earlier this season where a scoop and score was called back) and maybe gets proven wrong on replay. Or he lets the play continue, despite his best judgment, and replay now has to overturn his call. The ruling on the field isn't what the ref would rule except for replay.

What they need is for the ref to say I ruled it incomplete but allowed the continuation. So the overturn is now for the incompletion instead of the TD. It changes the burden of proof to where the call would have been made while still allowing the continuation.

No..I want our AD to speak up when its CLEAR...nothing changes unless that happens...Now Gene Smith is a Dirty Dirty AD we ALL know that and theres nothing we can do about it,  its the Culture at OSU winning is EVERYTHING now matter what no matter how

Warde’s situation was different because he would have to make tough comments about a B1G crew, which his program would inevitably play a game with them again. 
 

Smith had less to lose because it was an SEC crew. I think we’d all would have loved to have seen something out of Warde after that loss, but comparing the two, one is slightly less risky.

No, Gene Smith is a liar and a sycophant.

Wardecshould have said something in 2016.

Gene Smith is repulsive.

Are you saying that Gene Smith's reaction will have more of an impact than Warde's?  Maybe they will overturn the call because of Gene Smith's reaction.

No.  I'd prefer him to complain behind closed doors and if that doesn't work, then go public.

The officials ruled correctly, but I hate how some of the rules are interpreted.

I hate the rules for a catch. If you can haul in a pass, plant your foot and dive into the end-zone, breaking the plane, then the ball comes out when it hits the turf; it should be a touchdown.

Same thing on the fumble. You haul it in with both hands, shift the ball into your body, the defender rakes it out; it's a catch and a fumble.

It was a travesty when officials doubled down to defend a TERRIBLE call against Calvin Johnson, and it led to all of this "process of the catch" inanity.

Targeting needs to have degrees. You make a football play, and the offensive player lowers his head, too, versus trying to hurt someone, you shouldn't miss the rest of the game. I get protecting players and agree, but there has to be some balance. It's quite often a big play-maker taken out of the game and it can completely change things.

Replay needs to be limited. Reviews should be limited to 30 seconds of viewing video and only involve full speed replays. It takes too long and still doesn't always get it right.

The real problem for Gene is that OSU needed to score touchdowns when they dominated early. This would all be moot if they had. They pissed the game away.

If NCAA/ESPN/$EC wanted to rig the game it would have been way better for them if OSU won.  Nobody would rig this game for Clemson.  They are the least respected good team in the history of football because of the shit ACC schedule.  The ratings would have to be higher for LSU-OSU.

Also, sorry Gene, but I must have missed the part where the Clemson fan ref smacked Etienne on the ass.

Yes it does and I still think Warde should have ran his mouth Michigan has endless money fines mean squat

May this be higher than any point that clown university reaches ever again.  They all deserve misery.