B1G Admits to Mistake Overturning Hutchinson TD

TD, safety, and missed OSU FG should do it

Don't forget to request additional $$$ for pain and suffering

If it means heightened scrutiny for an OSU game that's sometimes yielded less than satisfactory reffing results, that might not be a bad thing. I'm prepared for most anything in that game this year except having that game snatched out from under us.

Rich Eisen ripped him a new one on his show.  The head of refs for the B1G is a man by the name of Bill Carrolo.  

Who I guess has said in the past something to the effect "It's Michigan, they should play better than the refs reffing the game."  Eisen articulated it much better than me. 

And, . . . inquiring minds want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha accountability for officials. Officiating is a major problem at both the FBS and pro levels and I don't know why nothing is ever done to make it better. The NFL officials at least have a union that impedes any progress ever being made - I don't know why college doesn't have more off-field officials to deal with this stuff

Yes, until there is some accountability the B1G can fuck right off.

I heard somebody say last week that they could hire permanent officials for $2 million a year? Seems low, but still given how much they generate from the Big Ten Network alone they could have permanent officials that didn't suck this bad. They again overturned a 50-50 call made on the field when they took away Selzer's catch.  They do not seem to understand the idea of clear and convincing.

Maybe we should be I don’t know focus on the next game coming up? 

Do you mean we have a surly, bipolar, whining fanbase that will complain no matter what the issue is?

Surely, you jest.  

So how do you know that quieter channels are more effective?  Lets just assume that those channels have been used - what changes have you noticed that affected officiating in a positive way?

I think public outcry probably had as much (or more) to do with this admission than anything done quietly.  Even if that outcry amounted to nothing more than disbelief and sarcasm, the optics of that one call were bad.

I haven't seen any evidence that officiating has been on an upward trend.  Quite the opposite!  So I'd say that the quieter channels have not been effective...

odds that one of those people will respond to this with something akin to “warde manuel didn’t “do anything’ to make this happen, don’t give him credit, he still should be screaming about it”:  one thousand percent.

Generally, Stephen, you are an elite poster with excellent insight. But this post pretty much takes the cake-in a bad direction. Suggesting not one but two possible hypotheticals happening in registering your own complaint about the posters on this forum...oh my. 

Otherwise, screw the conference and the officials here. So, pay Michigan a million bucks, fine the officials 5 games worth of pay and declare an MSU forfeit-and reduce their scholarships to 50 for the next five years-or just crawl back under your rock. A meaningless apology is worse than no apology.

Would you please be kind enough to share how you ascertain this "quiter but more effective" channel as it does not seem to result in adressing our many officiating concerns or produced a result of fewer eggregious infractions.

I concur. But the response to Michigan's complaint about mistakes in calls made in the MSU game are based on league timing, not the school. Beyond that, Harbaugh actually wasted a timeout talking to the officials after the Hutchinson TD fumble recovery was overturned. Later, after the game, he was asked in a way that suggested he should have gone off on the officials from the sideline. Instead, he said he just talked to the offiicials when incidents occurred.

Remember, Harbaugh and Michigan were fined $10k after the 2016 OSU game for remarks about the officiating of that contest. So, what did the league do after that? The B1G didn't assign that crew to a Michigan game for a year. Then, sporadically afterward.

Look, the officials get strongly evaluated. They get paid pretty well per game and put in a lot of time, study and preparation in order to work league contests. Just like visiting teams, crews have to be on  site 24 hours before game time. These guys have other jobs.

Other than lack of game assignment to Michigan contests, I can't imagine what other punishment or accountability we can expect. In this case, we are looking at errors that largely resulted between the booth and the referee, who runs the crew.

You’ve described the poster to whom you’ve responded to an absolute T - with the key words being ‘dumb’ and ‘trolling’.