October 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 PM ^
...Hughes was down at the 1 yard line. Absolute Bullshit that the call wasn't reviewed during the 4 minutes between the play and the kickoff.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 PM ^
And UW got fucked on the called-back TD. Though Washington deserves to lose for how bad their playcalling was from the 1 yard line.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 PM ^
This is very true. They had every opportunity and then some to get the ball into the endzone.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 PM ^
I didn't think it would get overturned, I still think it was 6.
With all the overturned TDs this season it has become pretty obvious that the referees don't take the parallax from the video cameras into account in any review
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 PM ^
Every play is reviewed even if it is not called down to the field to stop play.
In those 4 minutes UW could have challenged the play themselves (they still had TOs) and didn't, which is probably for a reason. I didn't see his knee down but I honestly wasn't looking for it either but it wasn't called down to the field and UW didn't challenge it, which are pretty good indicators to me.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 PM ^
I agree with you. If anyone wants to get into it, what about that BS "roughing the snapper" call?!
How about the bush push? Bad play calls happen, ND played a hell of a game, and they won.
Let's stop being so concerned with ND. Let's wait for next September.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 PM ^
I agree with you. If anyone wants to get into it, what about that BS "roughing the snapper" call?!Preaching to the choir on that one. The Dlineman can't blowup the center and cannot force the center down to the ground or lay a blow to the center's helemet. Both defenders split the gaps on either side of the center, and the center stands up himself as he snaps the ball. There was nothing illegal about it, the only thing I can think of is the ref saw one of the guards on either side who were blown off the LOS. And thought they were the center? UW ran 12 plays on that 1 yard line and they stopped each one, just an awesome showing by the Dline at a late and key point in the game.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:01 AM ^
I hate ND and even I thought that was BS.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:41 AM ^
Hey, we want these guys to keep winning. Otherwise our resume gets thinner.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 PM ^
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Even when the dude came down, his knee hit the ground a good yard before the ball touched the plane of the the goalline. Yet, nobody mentions this and it doesn't get reviewed. Was I seeing things?
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 PM ^
No, it was clear he was down. I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned more either. I'm sure we'll here about it more this week.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 PM ^
And if you noticed NDBC only showed the replay a couple of times and then swept it under the rug.
How convenient...
I hate NBC and their ND bias.
No matter...USC will ass-rape them in a couple of weeks.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 PM ^
Thanks for the board message i was watching the LSU/UGA game.
The question is who do I want to win... ND or not ND?
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 PM ^
Does anyone else hate the fact that kickers constantly get iced, but it rarely pays off? I think at this point it would mess with the kicker if you didn't call it. He's probably sitting there not expecting to actually run the play and then you don't call it and he has to kick.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 PM ^
considering he's a national announcer, tom harmmand such a homer that it hurts to listen. yet, when i leave, his voice remains with me all night...
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 PM ^
*Hammond. not to be confused with tom harmon, ole #98, PBTN
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 PM ^
Thank you NBC Chicago for cutting away in overtime for three full commercials (during play), and then after coming back cutting away again to Access Hollywood! xoxo
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 PM ^
Oh shit, dude just got knocked out.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 PM ^
the TV camera's didn't even show if he was alright. Classy . . .
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 PM ^
Seriously. And the announcer was commenting more on his helmet coming off than that he has brain injury. Classy!
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:14 PM ^
that I hardly ever watch ND on NBC. The whole reason I was checking this game was that I thought the chances of ND losing would be pretty high and that I'd get to see them pout. But I'm really kind of shocked at all the fanfare after that they show. What happens after a loss? I guess sometimes I have trouble understanding the differentiation between excessive celebration and celebrating with your teammates, but it seemed to me like after the ND TDs they were celebrating waaaay more than most officials would allow. I also just saw an ESPN cut in and Wendy Nix says something to the effect of "The Washington reciever just gets (haha) creamed." Straight class.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 PM ^
If I ever hear another irish fan complain about that touchdown overturned during the UM-ND game, I'm going to remind them of the Washington touchdown that got overturned. How in the hell was there evidence to overturn?
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 PM ^
Yeah because they're sooooo related.
If there is anything you can count on in the ND/UM rivalry it is the losing fanbase's inability to concede a loss till the next year's game
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 PM ^
To show 3 segments of highlights, Tom Hammond and the sidekick masturbating about Notre Dame's victory, the entire postgame marching band suite, to chuckle at the last play.....
and not once mention whether the Washington WR whose helmet was knocked off and hit the ground unconscious was okay.
That's just about as disgraceful as it gets. But, just par for the course for NBC Notre Dame coverage.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 PM ^
I don't know how many ND games you have watched on NBC but the announcers are far from ND homers. They get all excited about which ever team looks to win the game on a given play. For covering ND football pretty exclusively the two of them don't know the player's names, numbers or even positions at times. And then you add on their poor ability to comment on football in general, there is a reason why there is a firehammondandhaden.com
I thought it was policy to not show a player who might be unconscious while he is laying on the field? Either way the report is that he did get a concussion but it is nothing serious.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^
But it was a makeup call for the Bush push that was Illegal a few years back. Plus a Pac 10 team is not gonna get a call like that in ND stadium. I also thought there was some imaginary wall on the goal line that Washington just couldn't cross. But look at it this way I want ND to go 11-1 with that one blemish being us way back at the Big House. The more games ND wins make our win against them look better in the BCS eyes.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 PM ^
They could very easily have thrown a flag, but as the anonymous official told espn 4 years ago in regards to the "bush push", "it is something that is never called".
If your interested Purdue scored a TD on ND last week in a play that would also fall into that same category.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:46 AM ^
Watching the end of the ND game right after watching the end of Georgia/LSU was interesting - Georgia gets flagged for nothing I could see, LSU got flagged for Scott pointing to the sky, and then ND does a gang-dance in the endzone and...nothing.
Now, I'm not advocating that ND get flagged - I don't think they should have. But man, the NCAA needs to make the application of these rules uniform.
October 4th, 2009 at 1:03 AM ^
I fully agree with you, at least the SEC refs were consistent though, I guess as dumb as those 2 penalties were.
If there was one "NCAA football referee association" without a conference qualifier it would get them more respect for their calls on the field. That said, thats a whole lot of games every week, and a whole lot of people to manage.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:31 PM ^
He was down. That's all there is to it.