Iowa robbed
Just saw this on ESPN. Sucks for them.
Nine Iowa players and coaches were robbed of cellphones and cash from the team's locker room during Saturday night's victory at Iowa State.
My guess is they stopped offering sacrifices to appease AIRBHG and this is just him getting their attention back.
September 17th, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:36 PM ^
Until death do they part
September 17th, 2013 at 3:28 PM ^
Man, how shitty is your stadium personnel situation that the visiting school's locker room gets robbed. Do they not have security personnel or something? That's some HS bullshit.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:22 PM ^
There was a news story in Chicago Saturday that a bunch of HS football players got robbed of their belongings (wallets, phones, ipads, etc.) during the second half of their game Friday night. That really bites.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:56 PM ^
and this has been front page of the Sports section for two days in a row. We are heavily Hawkeye grads here, though.
My son is in his junior year of high school and we have been looking at schools within a few hours drive.
Not that Iowa State was at the top of his list, but he made a comment about it this morning. Needless to say, he won't be in Ames, Iowa in 2015. Like you said, HS BS...
September 17th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
Wisconsin got robbed
September 17th, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^
No, Iowa got robbed, Wisconsin got effed in the a.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:11 PM ^
To be fair, they were bent over asking for it.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
Yet another instant classic MGoExchange.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:37 PM ^
Maybe if Wisconsin hadn't been run all over to the tune of 500 yards and put themselves in that situation, maybe they wouldn't have butthurt.
September 17th, 2013 at 7:06 PM ^
Nice.....blaming the victim.
September 18th, 2013 at 7:29 AM ^
September 18th, 2013 at 7:47 AM ^
I agree with your title but not the rest of what you said. It was most definately not a fumble. Yes the refs really made a mess of it, but it all started with the QB making a poor choice.
September 18th, 2013 at 11:35 AM ^
Also, by rule you don't literally have to touch your knee to the ground, just making that motion is enough.
Now if you're talking about not holding onto the ball/giving it to the ref then I agree with you.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:20 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^
and it was whistled down, then signaled down.
Enjoy your ignorance.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:49 PM ^
Bad luck or not, Wisconsin elected to run a play inbounds with 18 seconds left and no timeouts. That's playing with fire.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:54 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 5:03 PM ^
Live it definitely looked weird from the angle they showed on TV. Seeing the replay it was very obvious he kneeled and put the ball down, that angle was the same one the back umpire had of the play. The refs whistled the play dead when he put the ball down. After the whistles, 3 ASU players jumped on the ball and proceeded to sit on it for several seconds. That is the definition of a delay of game. The only thing Wisconsin could have done was get to the line with 7 seconds, not 3 to have a better case to the refs. It was a blown call.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:05 PM ^
And/or hand the ball to an official. To be perfectly honest, I don't think I have ever seen a player NOT hand the ball to an official on a kneel down. Regardless, I have never seen someone just set the ball on the ground on a kneel down.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:09 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 7:51 PM ^
Wisconsin did absolutely nothng wrong on that play. They kneeled, set the ball for the offical to spot, and waited for him to do so. He never did. That is in no way Wisconsin's fault.
September 17th, 2013 at 9:57 PM ^
September 18th, 2013 at 1:35 AM ^
Wisconsin's coach does not agree with you.
September 18th, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
If you think that every player, from the youngest age, is taught to hand the ball to the official, you really need to see more football, because you have misssed the thousands of plays in which the players have not handed the ball to a ref, but simply left it where the play ended. There were dozens of examples of this in the very game in question.
Wisconsin's coaches almost certainly blundered by allowing referee blunders to impact the end of the game, but other than that, Wisconsin got jobbed, and the blame rests with the officials.
September 18th, 2013 at 5:51 PM ^
On kneel down plays? Because, you know, I was specifically talking about handing the ball to the official on kneel down plays...
September 17th, 2013 at 5:44 PM ^
The other thing Iowa could have done is take a shot at the endzone. You have 18 seconds and the clock is stopped (the receiver went out of bounds on the previous play), and your kicker isn't very reliable, so why put the game all on his shoulders? With 18 seconds, you really could take two shots at a TD before kicking. Centering the ball may marginally improve your kicker's chances (though given that all kickers nowadays kick it soccer-style, kicking from the hash often isn't much of a handicap), but it forces your kicker to come through, while also opening up the possibility of a clock disaster.
September 17th, 2013 at 6:06 PM ^
A player is down if he "simulates placing his knee on the ground" per NCAA Rule 4(1)(3)(o). The refs should have blown the whistle as soon as Stave crouched down regardless of whether his knee touched the ground. I agree with Double Wolverine that one of the refs in fact did blow his whistle (at roughly the 15 second mark).
Both the kneel down and the whistle should have ended the play, and, if nothing else, the ASU player falling on the ball at roughly the 12 second mark should have ended it too. The latter instance should have caused a the refs to stop the clock because it was either a turnover, which stops the clock, or a delay of game penalty, which obviously stops the clock too. Either way, the clock stoppage would have given the refs time to think and talk to the replay booth about whether there was a turnover. It is inexplicable that the refs did nothing until they whistled the start of new play with roughly three second left.
Without speaking to what Wisconsin should have done, this was a terrible bit of officiating.
September 18th, 2013 at 1:38 AM ^
How dare you act all high and mighty with your facts and sound reasoning. This was 100% Wisconsin's fault for believing someone would is paid to do a job would do it correctly.
/s
September 18th, 2013 at 9:50 AM ^
September 18th, 2013 at 3:00 PM ^
September 18th, 2013 at 6:09 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^
Wait, we can't even count on refs from our opponents conferences now?
September 17th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
I think that, legally, Iowa State may be responsible to reimburse the players for this assuming that the stuff was properly locked in the lockers. I think it's Iowa State's responsibility to keep Iowa's stuff safe - similar to a bailor/bailee relationship (if not exactly like it).
September 17th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
Your roommates sold your laptop bro.
September 17th, 2013 at 9:44 PM ^
ha ha. I actually laughed out loud to that...
well played
jdon
September 17th, 2013 at 3:45 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 3:49 PM ^
It was an inside job.
September 17th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
Where was Frank Clark at the time?
September 17th, 2013 at 4:04 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:06 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:10 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:20 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
I did find this link, which reports that the thefts may have been an inside job. This is offensive?
September 17th, 2013 at 5:16 PM ^
That makes three of us. Isn't there a movie called Inside Job, about robbing a bank? I thought it was a reference to that, but then, I don't see what's so offensive about that.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^
Ah, because it looks like you guys were replying to my comment. I was very very confused as to what is offensive about calling it an inside job.
September 18th, 2013 at 8:08 AM ^
Because I thought the same thing.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:02 PM ^
for sneaking.