Do you think the big ten will apologize for the officiating ala the Oregon State game?

Submitted by ThadMattasagoblin on

Harbaugh sounded off on the referees in his post game presser and won his last feud with the conference a few weeks back. Do you think we hear some explanation on the Joe Bolden play or any of the other fuck ups such as the Butt catch, or the called back interception?

Girlbleedsblue

October 19th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^

Well it makes ... or may make ...  a difference in the perceived legitimacy of the MSU win.  If you barely win and then the refs say they screwed up, then the MSU victory is tainted.  But, there's no real gain there.  I'm not going to hope for anything like that or let my head get caught up in it.  I just want to look forward to some really good football out of this program.

Danwillhor

October 20th, 2015 at 3:23 AM ^

The best part is that I'd never heard someone question the intelligence of another by insinuating (relative) youth. I'll have to try that when I lose all ability to be decent, lose all vocabulary skills and....wait, I'll never do it. It's just so damn lazy and lame. Gandalf the Wise can keep that snappy retort for himself.

DonAZ

October 19th, 2015 at 5:58 PM ^

An acknowledgement of failure might also establish a precedence leading to a little more care taken next time ... and most certainly in the review phase.

The call on the field is explainable -- things moving quickly, call made in haste.

The review letting the play stand is what is so egregious.

Girlbleedsblue

October 19th, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^

..complaining about Harbaugh complaining about officiating?  (Drew Sharp)  

An acknowledgement of mistakes might shut that stuff down too.  

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/drew-sharp/2015/10/17/mich…

Of course if MSU had lost, Drew's article would have been about the refs.  

I do like that Harbaugh questions officiating when he feels it should be questioned.  It's nice to have a coach who is also an advocate for the team.  

 

 

 

Double-D

October 19th, 2015 at 8:32 PM ^

to be true. Sharp's whole goal is to incite. Accuracy and reason have no place in his criteria. He really is actually pathetic A guy like that has family that does not even want him around.

Edit. I would stlill pay serious money to cage fight him.

Lumpy_wolverine

October 19th, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^

I don't know if the BIG needs to apologize, but they do need to explain, so that the coaches (and the athletes) know what to do to avoid getting tossed from a game.  What could Bolden have done to have prevented getting the penalty?  If there is something, that needs to be explained so that other athletes can be taught.  If there is nothing that he could have done, that also needs to be explained, so that the players are not panicing trying to figure out what to do when they are getting thrown onto a quarterback.

And, by the way, if there is nothing that he could have done, then there should be an apology.  It changes nothing, but when you screw up royally, it is good form to own up to it.

Just sayin'

UMForLife

October 19th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^

Possible. It only helps to win arguments with Sparty or personal satisfaction. May be they will get better refs. Who knows. By the time we find out we will be into the next game...

ThirdVanGundy

October 19th, 2015 at 5:35 PM ^

They will. And what are you going to do, those refs were just incompetant. They won't apologize and even if they want to, I doubt it would go over well with MSU fans considering it would make it look like they were given an unfair advantage. You know, the same fans that are acting like they won the game on nothing but pure skill.

JamieH

October 19th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^

does that same group of refs have to screw over before the conference DOES something about them?  If I f'ed up that badly that many times in high profile situations in my job I would have been fired a long time ago. 

JTrain

October 19th, 2015 at 5:40 PM ^

Now they won't. It does not matter anyway...
Back to "there's always next year....).
Hope we have a QB that can flat sling it next year. Very thankful for rudock too but that lack of a deep threat kills game planning.




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VauntedD

October 19th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^

Who cares about apologies. Let's Go Blue! Get the Little Brown Jug back, beat the Gophers and get bowl eligibility something I'll never take for granted again.




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HarryScarface

October 19th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^

But right now the collective flexing that Sparty is doing is more than they did last year, and this game was completely different. Tainting that win will just make the entire game that much stupider.

umich1

October 19th, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^

Focusing on the wrong thing. An apology doesn't really help the past. I'd rather get confirmation that they won't be officiating the Ohio State game this year.

MGoUberBlue

October 19th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^

And I don't think that matters at all to Jim Harbaugh or any of the players.

It doesn't change anything.  We lost; it was an awful ending; it is over.

Go Blue Forever!