Indiana Snowflakes: The Refs

Not their best game. Better luck next week.

total 🤡 show
so Many bad calls - consistently calling every touch foul, but then somehow missing JJ getting crushed from behind helmet-to-helmet was terrible. 

It ain't festivus.

That said, I think Klatt is overly generous with his "really struggling" assessment.

When the least-penalized team in the country ends up with 11 or whatever it was, you probably done wrong.

My favorite was the line judge running in from 20 yards away emphatically waiving off Schoon’s catch only to be overturned by replay. 

Apparently targeting isn't a thing against Michigan

yeah, that was one of the worst officiated games I've watched. Pretty bad

Fucking horrible.  If they end up in Ann Arbor for the game against the Spartans I may riot.

It was so atrocious that I looked up the transcript of the old Referee Pittman skit from SNL. It pretty much reads like a postgame presser for this game:

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89gpitman.phtml 

When refs interject themselves into a game like this, its sad. This was a game full of shit calls and makeup calls… for both teams.

fuck those dudes they changed the narrative of the games 

It didn’t matter, but I just can’t stand it when refs almost seem to make penalty calls to show their power. That is what I felt was the case when they called the unsportsmanlike conduct on Harrell. Just a terrible call all around. Other than that, this was a very sloppy game for Michigan. A lot they can work on cleaning up which should help them this week with focus. 

My favorite was Harrell wipping the sweat off after a sack, then the old white ref throwing flag cause he cant tell the difference between cut throat and that.

That unsportsmanlike conduct call on Harrell was absolute garbage. The rulings on those types of penalties are so inconsistent to where I believe that if you’re going to call it, it needs to be so blatantly obvious that you can’t not call it.

Something like standing over the opposing player, shoving him down, etc.

That said, most of Michigan’s penalties were justified and deserved to be called. They played really sloppy today. Plain and simple.  

Refs have been bad all year, but today is right up there with the crew that did our Maryland game.

Hopefully we won't be seeing THIS crew in Columbus! These guys were as bad as the medical support at Purdue's stadium.

College game; HS-level coaching.  Didn't seem to favor one side or the other to any great degree.  Bad even for B10 but by no means off the charts.

I don't know that I've seen two bad flags on one play like the roughing-the-passer and DPI calls. The Turner call looked like the referee's thinking was "well, it was kinda a late hit because the WR was knocked on his ass OOB" and "well, it was kinda interference because the WR got pushed while the ball was over his head" and "well, put them together there should be a penalty here." Really it was a shitty pass that hung the WR out to dry on the sidelines. I guess that doesn't get called if it's in front of Michigan's sideline.

My 9-year-old daughter was complaining without me inciting her.  She was right.  She has no idea how right she was.  This was bad officiating.  Not only because it destroyed the flow of the game and both offenses, but even the spots seemed to always be negative for Michigan. 

Even the simplest spots were always called beyond conservatively.  In most games, a run that gets you close to the first down just gets placed at the first down.  In this game, a run that goes 0.5 yards beyond it was called 3rd and 1.  How was the Corum TD, Schoonmaker TD, etc. not called?  Now the no-targeting was insane.  These are all Michigan offensive plays and we-do-not-run-tempo so they have no excuse. 

But the refs weren't even the biggest problem with our offense (Iowa joke carry-over).  We were almost our own worst enemy here.  JJ needs minimal coaching and then to go out there and have fun.  He doesn't seem to be enjoying himself or running a loose offense in his sophomore year.  He is a superb game manager, agile runner, and amazing passer (under 15/20 yards).  The rest will come if he just lets himself play a little looser, I believe.  He needs his swagger back.  

No call targeting against JJ was the worst. Not even a review. Those morons should be out of a job. But nothing will happen because B1G doesn't give a shit and UM won't stand up for themselves.

That unsportsmanlike penalty was another awful one. 

UM did some stupid things that needed a flat. But IU was getting away with holds. Trash team and they will always be trash. I hope they lose every game rest of the way. 

Refs sucked. Period.

Why do they insist on being noticed??? They were SO bad. Thankfully after being all in Indiana’s favor early, things changed a little and it was more even. But just…bad overall. They roughing the passer call was atrocious, though the DPI was correct anyway. The unsportsmanlike conduct was even worse, that’s just unacceptable. Bad spot on Bell reaching the ball out, he was close to the 1st down. Ridiculous to call that Schoonmaker reception incomplete, but thankfully replay fixed it. And it took FAR too lang for them to call the OPI on IU’s touchdown, but they did at least get it right. And then there was at least one time where IU subbed and the ref didn’t let Michigan sub. Gah just so so bad.

Both IU scoring drives continued on terrible calls.   For all of the first half griping, could have been a 3 point half with 2 good calls (and IU not getting a short FG blocked past the line…shut out if you count the blocked FG as our good play)

One if the worst officiated games I have ever witnessed.

Thank FSM for Blake Corum.  The way they were spotting the ball, any time Michigan needed a yard the refs demanded three, and Corum got them that and usually more.

Refs definitely in preseason form.

Trash