The Overturn

From yesterdays post:

http://mgoblog.com/content/monday-presser-notes-9-14-09

When the Armando Allen touchdown was overturned, Rodriguez called a timeout instead of a challenge because he wanted to save his challenge for later in the game in case they needed it.

How else can he get the 4 Heismans he promised when he started at ND? This one will look wonderful next to the other 2 he already has.

i know it's fashionable to make fun of claussen, and all that - and i enjoy it, too - but i don't think you can count him out of it yet. he's completed 67% of his passes for 330 yards a game with 7 touchdowns and no picks. he certainly hasn't done anything to remove himself from the race.

well, nothing except that dance. yeesh.

I'm not confused at all...she is HOT!

I say we take a cue from ABC and cut to her every time we need a Notre Dame response.

Srsly.

Anyone with time and a good player up for getting us a database of various Hot ND Chick facial expressions? I think I counted about 20 during the broadcast, covering the entire emotional range.

1. The refs made the correct call, but because they made the correct call with less than perfect evidence this means they made the wrong call. Got it.

2.

3. Despite being the right call, they shouldn't have called it, because they don't always call it. Ok. Also, no one is disputing Cissoko probably could have got a penalty for that shove. Which was in the 2nd Q IIRC, and ND scored on that drive anyway.

Michigan got all the breaks in that parallel universe you live in, buddy. I should know, I spent time in that same universe after our game last year, and after that 2005 game when we were jobbed out of a touchdown.

"Accept it and move on."

3. Lets not forget, unless there is a collaborative conspiracy going on here, it was a lot more than "ssshhhh". More along the lines of shut the f$*% up you fa*%ots"

That is a flag every time.

Anytime the OL latches on and twists the way Young did on Graham on the play in question will get flagged.

ND got flagged for it early in the game (so did Michigan, by the way. The refs have been told by the NCAA to be more vigilant with latch and twist moves) and they did not adjust their blocking style. Young needed to latch and twist on that play or the defender gets the QB and screen pass never happens. Sadly for Young and ND, that is a clear holding violation.

Learn the rules, chief. And quit cry babbying it up.

I feel that we should assemble a set of dubious calls and non-calls that went against us, and then sit around and complain about how we didn't win by 17. That should help balance out all the whining coming from the Notre Dame fans, and then maybe we could all call it even and admit that it was an awesome game that Michigan won.

Also, for what it's worth, it looked to me that on the long screen pass completion overturned by a holding call, our defenders let up on the gas, like they saw the holding call and didn't want to get in any trouble (see: the earlier screen pass, which also generated a holding flag, but also resulted in a face mask penalty on the tackle, canceling out the holding). I'm not sure that's really what you want your defenders to be doing (what if it wasn't actually a holding call?) but that's what it looked like from my point of view.

Nothing funnier than a sore loser saying "accept it and move on". Thank you, my day is now made.

watch #2 again. the reason claussen had time to wait for a crossing tight end was a CLEAR holding on the wing...and don't forget the shitty pass interference call the play before that got n.d. out of the end zone after forcier's punt. as we like to say, you can't have on without the other.

Accept it and move on instead of whining like a child.

#1: So you're saying Michigan benefited that the refs made the right call? And this is wrong/lucky how? Were the refs supposed to have made the wrong call?

#2: Could be right, could be wrong; also could have just not shown on the TV angle - ref sees a different angle, and clearly thought he saw a hold.

#3: The rules explicitly state that this is a penalty. Whether it's always called or not is a red herring. It's always *supposed* to be called. A violation of code = penalty. If the beef is about an unrelated act that you think should have been called, I don't see why this penalty is brought up at all.

If you want to complain about holding calls, please re-watch the game and see how many times Brandon Graham was held with no call. The fact is Notre Dame had the ball and the lead with less than five minutes left in the game. They have no excuses.

The ABC angle is in Irish's snapshot somewhere in the comment section. WNDU uses its own footage, not ABC's.

There is no chalk on FieldTurf

Snicker.

You know, it helps to read the article you are commenting on.

The argument here relies on the idea that the review was "inconclusive" given the replays shown on the TV, but those things are not necessarily the same things the replay guy sees. If we are parsing the shadows and whatnot—some Notre Dame fans see that picture and suggest that Allen's heel is not out of bounds—then we're back to semantics. What is "voluntary"? What is "conclusive"? If I close my eyes, does the universe cease existing?

The call was correct. You are not allowed to complain about a referee getting something right. That's not how complaints work.