WTF was up with replay ref?

The fact we overcame the refs, other self-inflicted wounds and still won the game, incredible.

Denard would have brought Michigan right back down the field and Gibbons would have won it!!!!!

Link?

They left the Urban talk to a minimum as well.

I thought my head was going to explode when he said that Omameh is our best pulling guard. There were two other things that he said at the beginning of the game that were blatantly incorrect, but I've already blocked what those were from my memory.

He was annoying the shit out of my dad and I all day.  He also never said anything after the spiked ball fiasco.  Not a word for at least five minutes.  I honestly think he left the booth b/c he was so pissed.

the entire football and the knee down.  Result TD!   The other angle does not show the entire ball plus they kept stopping it BEFORE the knee was actually down.  This replay ref should lose his job.

Go Blue!

sorry, but the worst call ever seen was in the big east game, where they reviewed the field goal which clearly goes through the uprights, then they say it never did.. even after the replay 

I agree it was a terrible, terrible call, but it's not on this level:

Kicking team touches the ball before it travels 10 yards AND the receiving team still recovers the ball, but the refs give the ball to the kicking team. Total mindfuck.

This can't be mentioned enough.  We may not have won the Iowa gm, but I'll always think that was a TD catch by Hemingway.

And WTF has been up with all the holding that has been allowed this year?  Perhaps it's some homerism, but I thought our DLine didn't get as many holding calls as they deserved.

It may have been the same replay guy--they don't print the replay guy's name in the box score--but it was a different crew of on-field refs.

Michigan at Iowa:  R-Capron, U-Neale, H-Ryan, L-Krispinsky, B-Lyman, F-Terry, S-Sagers.

Ohio at Michigan:  R-LeMonnier, U-Shaw, H-Dolce, L-Livas, B-Buchanan, F-Clay, S-Swanson

The crew for yesterday's game was the same crew as for the Michigan-Michigan State game.

Watson hammered a guy when Denard was five or six yards deep in the end zone.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  But whatever, we won!

Spielman only points it out every time it comes up. I can't understand why they wouldn't either. Can the B1G not afford 48 (4x12) cameras? Do we have to rely on ESPN (sorry, Disney) to provide video equipment? 

Conspiracy or not, this is the only explanation (other than downright incompetence) I've seen that makes any sense.  I don't know that there was enough evidence to confirm the call on the field, but there sure wasn't enough to reverse there.

It may be too difficult, unless the whole cover of the football has sensors on it. I'm not sure that is possible or the NCAA would allow that change to the football itself because it might affect how the ball performs.

Cost vs. Benefit says no. Goaline cams are far enough. 

I get tackled at the 1 and stick the football over the goal line after i'm down.  Sensors say TD.  How does that in any way help?

Sticking loads of cameras down there doesn't help either.  You would need humans at every one making sure they were in focus.  Those 48 people would cost lots of money and be super bored 99.9% of the time.  It just doesn't happen enough to justify this sort of attention.

In the end, you're relying on one replay official sitting upstairs to determine the result.  Easiest fix is to make it a panel of 3 with majority rules.  1 guy in the pressbox for routine events, have a replay screen for the ref on the field, and 1 guy at the B1G offices or something that gives him zero context of what the game/score/situation is when a replay is called for.  Leaving the decision in the hands of one really old crochety guy seems like a bad decision.