Do you think the big ten will apologize for the officiating ala the Oregon State game?
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?
October 19th, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^
Who cares.
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October 19th, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^
But it would almost make the loss sting even more.
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.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:56 PM ^
The only thing anybody is every going to care about is the final score.
We lost. That's it. Get over it.
October 19th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^
as in,
"We won blah blah respect me blah"
"Oh that was the game where the refs apologized to Michigan for all the bad calls."
But again, I don't think there's anything to gain by dwelling on it.
October 19th, 2015 at 6:43 PM ^
This is like how you argue on the playground in middle school.
We only needed to punt the ball on the last play to win the game. We didn't. We lost. Welcome to football.
October 19th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
You are in fact vastly superior, and of the highest intelligence. The fact you would stoop to talk with common folks baffles me. Are you 82? Does wisdom come with age?
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.
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.
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.
October 19th, 2015 at 8:02 PM ^
He said Harbaugh was crying about the officials. I didn't see one tear fall, and he only said "calls that were made, calls that weren't made"... You know he knows the officials by name, and he woulda said 'Dave made a bad call on this play, John was drunk when he called this one'
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.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
Sharp is venomous as ever, but at least he shows the high quality we can expect from professional journalism these days:
"...that will go down as one of the greatest plays in the history of Michigan State victory."
October 20th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
Yea the refs were terrible and it should be pointed out. Only way to make sure it doesn't happen to0 often is to scrutinize obvious terrible calls.
October 19th, 2015 at 6:30 PM ^
I think the man in the reviewing room took advantage of Ann Arbor's decriminalization of marijuana.
But that's just me.
October 19th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^
Why would the Big Ten "taint" Sparty's victory and cost them a possible spot in the playoffs? That's not what conferences do.
October 19th, 2015 at 6:22 PM ^
It's just a public perception thing.
October 19th, 2015 at 7:55 PM ^
It should be acknowledged as a bad job and the officials should see some blowback because of it, but you're delusional if you think you can say it for sure affected one side more than the other.
October 19th, 2015 at 8:43 PM ^
What exactly, uh, was bad officiating against Sparty Saturday afternoon?!
October 19th, 2015 at 10:05 PM ^
I can understand a gripe about play should've been blown dead on Houma's TD run when his forward progression was clearly stopped.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
It's been so long since we've seen you post that GIF. I missed it in a weird sense. Thanks, TennBlue.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:48 PM ^
This never gets old. Thanks!
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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'
October 19th, 2015 at 8:42 PM ^
It establishes Harbaugh as someone who will call out poor officiating and therefore pressure NCAA to provide better refs to his games (as well as give an officiating crew something to consider when deciding a call that could go either way...).
October 19th, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^
You mean the same refs that did the Oregon state game.. And also screwed over Penn State versus Ohio State last year... THOSE refs???
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October 19th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
You'll get an apology. Next summer, at B1G media days.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:31 PM ^
Bolden can start the Minnesota game. Damage is done. I Agee that admitting the bad call makes it even worse...
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...
October 19th, 2015 at 8:55 PM ^
The very best way to win an argument with Sparty is to refuse to argue.
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.
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.
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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October 19th, 2015 at 5:41 PM ^
this game. They worked the BCS National Championship game. They have worked Michigan-Ohio State. They can still suck on any given Saturday.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
I heard this was the highedt rates ref team, how is that possible?
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October 19th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
"Highest rated" that is.
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October 19th, 2015 at 6:32 PM ^
Now that I think about it, I think "highedt rates" was just about right for this particular officiating crew when it came to this particular game.
As for an apology from the Big Ten, to answer the OP's point, I would be shocked if they did. I don't foresee one coming
October 19th, 2015 at 6:46 PM ^
Agreed.
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October 19th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
and the two games have easily been among the two worst officiated games I've seen in at least the last 5 years.
If these guys are the most highly rated, someone needs to take a serious look at how the ratings are done.
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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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.
October 19th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Move on
October 19th, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^
There were many calls in that game that were close. That was not wone of them.
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.
October 19th, 2015 at 7:32 PM ^
To that
October 19th, 2015 at 9:09 PM ^
And hopefully any other game for the rest of the season.
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!
October 19th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
Likely have big brothers that they don't like very much
October 19th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
Haha. Nice work.
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