Michigan Iowa thread

Submitted by victors2000 on

Just wanted to start a thread for those of us who weren't too much into the live blog...

BlueBird

November 5th, 2011 at 3:51 PM ^

Is there any way to get the replay official's take on why Hemmingway's TD wouldn't have counted?  His knee was down and controlled the football.  Isn't that a TD in college football?  I get that the ball hit the ground, but it was still in his hands and it never moved once.  Just wanted to hear why the replay guy thought it was inconclusive.

mtlcarcajou

November 5th, 2011 at 3:14 PM ^

Wish he could make a few comments of that officiating. PI!!!!!!!!

Fucking jobbed, sickening. I don't mind losing if we don't play well - which we didn't really. But that was bad.

Summoner10

November 5th, 2011 at 3:16 PM ^

worst reffing job I've seen in years.  pathetic.  They steal a touchdown away from us then let the Iowa coverman get away with being draped all over roundtree on the final play.  Complaints need to be filed for this game.  Such horse shit.

Champ Kind

November 5th, 2011 at 3:19 PM ^

I'm not a big fan of Al Borges after this.  Why are we using the Gardner sets so much?  Apparently, we have to throw away some plays every game for no reason.  

No rollouts on the goal line?  The MSU game was a worse called game than this, but this one was still awful.  Put another one in the "Borges has no idea how to maximize this personnel" column.  

So disappointing.

Champ Kind

November 5th, 2011 at 3:20 PM ^

I'm not a big fan of Al Borges after this.  Why are we using the Gardner sets so much?  Apparently, we have to throw away some plays every game for no reason.  

No rollouts on the goal line?  The MSU game was a worse called game than this, but this one was still awful.  Put another one in the "Borges has no idea how to maximize this personnel" column.  

So disappointing.

jmblue

November 5th, 2011 at 3:35 PM ^

It's funny how the TV announcers can have such an impact on viewers' opinions.  Because Spielman kept blabbering on about the need to call a rollout, a bunch of posters are parroting him now.  I would not have called a rollout because 1) Denard doesn't throw that well on the run and 2) you can't afford to be tackled inbounds with no timeouts.

There was nothing wrong with the playcalling.  The second-down play was a TD, but the officials blew the call.  The third-down play should have been a TD, but Smith dropped it.  The fourth-down play was clearly interference.  This is on the officials.  The only coaching move I'd second-guess was calling the timeout instead of spiking.  If we'd saved the timeout, we could have called a running play, but OTOH, we would have lost a down.