Higdon hold call worst you have ever seen?
That was legimately the worst call I have ever seen in my 20 years of watching college football. Also can we please have someone blast the big ten officials publicly for the lack of holding calls on UM's dline, it is ridiculous at this point. Big ten officials are by far the worst in the country and it is not even close
September 29th, 2018 at 8:41 PM ^
Agree. Worse EVER
Had to say why M gets so many bad calls.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:13 PM ^
WORST I've seen in a long time.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:41 PM ^
That was absolutely garbage. I still can't believe they called that.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
Agreed
September 29th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
The non call on NU's last drive was almost worse. Dude gets flat out hauled down as he's about to get the game sealing sack and no call.
Fuck this "don't want to influence the game" mentality that makes refs swallow their whistles at the end of close games. These no-calls are critical, game changing misses.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
Weird how they never swallow those whistles when Michigan is on offense.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:53 PM ^
“These no-calls are critical, game changing misses.”
That influence the game. Absolutely agree.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
It was a really, really awful, inexplicable and a call with a high probability of a significant impact on the outcome of the game.
It will be interesting and enlightening to see the clarification provided, which somehow I doubt will be characterized as "makeup call."
September 29th, 2018 at 8:43 PM ^
Michigan must demand public accountability from the officiating crew for the Higdon holding call and the Winovich take down. Granted, the Michigan team we've seen this season isn't well disciplined, but that is no excuse for the officials to fantasize penalties and blindly ignore others.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:44 PM ^
Phantom foul on Laimbeer in 88.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:14 PM ^
Too soon.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
Charles White. Phantom holding in Bo's last game. Eddie Brown tackles Desmond. Countless plays at ND. The Spot. We have been getting boned since I was a little kid.
September 29th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
1997 robbed of a unanimous national championship.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:44 PM ^
Had to be the wrong number called. If not, somebody needs to be suspended. Seriously.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:50 PM ^
I don't think its that. Normally when they call the wrong number they get the call right still. They still negated a huge gain and backed Michigan up though.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:03 PM ^
People say this all the time. They don't suspend for dumb/bad calls and mistakes. They would be getting suspended all the time. His game rating will definitely take hit from his evaluator.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^
Looks like the refs screwed up which team to call hold on.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
How is that even possible?!
September 29th, 2018 at 8:56 PM ^
It happens; credible officiating crews correct themselves before the next play. How the replay official missed it and or why he didn't call down is beyond me.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
The was no holding by anybody wearing a white jersey on that play.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:50 PM ^
That's just Blandino trying to come up with some kind of excuse for the refs. There was no defensive holding unless it's a penalty to tackle the running back when you think he has the ball.
The refs have a serious vendetta against Harbaugh, 2nd half of the ND, the entire SMU game, now think of all the no calls in the NU game where the announcers kept saying the refs just wanted to keep the clock running, now this game with the phantom block in the back on the punt return, no call on Winovich being tackled, holding on Higdon. Runyan gets called for a hold for hooking a dudes arm but our guys consistantly get tackled and nothing. How many targeting calls have been missed where our guys take head shots like West on the kick return, Mason on the goal line, Mccaffery on one of his runs. If one of our guys has a remotely questionable hit it's an immediate booth review.
September 29th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^
Right, Blandino is just trying to cover for what is clearly a call so unbelievably bad that no one can possibly even begin to explain it.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^
Don't know what the protocol or history of the B1G is on shitty calls, but would like to see it at least acknowledged by the league in some capacity. How about a makeup call in the Game this November.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^
Quoting myself is bad taste, but I will anyways:
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/b1g-offensive-holding-statistics-harbaugh-era-updated-play
Beyond the bias that the data suggests, it also shows that offensive holding calls are rare. To pick that, THAT as a holding, as I think about the dozens of calls our DLINE haven’t gotten, just pisses me off.
It’s not just that it was a ghost penalty. It’s worse than that. Michigan has drawn the short end of the stick here repeatedly, for 3 years, despite having an elite defensive line.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:22 PM ^
No one holds the Defense. Take SMU; their entire offensive line will be leaving for their NFL careers, given the way they stopped multiple blitzes. Well, either that or they were holding a bit.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:47 PM ^
On the bright side, no phantom targeting call on Hudson this week. So at least the impact of awful officiating is being contained within the game where it occurs this time.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
On one of the first defensive plays of the game Bush hit Thorson after he got the ball out almost exactly like Hudson's hit from last week. I was sure there was going to be a flag thrown for it because the universe hates me.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:48 PM ^
Incomprehensibly bad call. So obviously stupid I’m almost assuming it was called on the wrong number because even grading by incompetent Big 10 ref standards that was beyond belief bad.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
Well the lack of holding calls goes back to ever since Harbaugh got here. We have had great to good dlines every year and yet have drawn a handful of holding calls in 4 years. Something is up there. The Winovich one was just so egregious on that last drive
September 29th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
That call was some sort of piss poor make up call for the non holding call on Long. I mean it was the worst I’ve seen.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
At some point it stops being just sloppy play and bad luck and looks like a vendetta against Harbaugh. You can only flip a coin so many times in a row and come up tails before you stop believing that the outcome is not fixed.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
YES. By far.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
Don't know if it's the worst call, but to borrow your term, it's most incomprehensible call I've ever seen. It's so bizarre that the natural response is to assume (a) the ref called the wrong jersey number or (b) it was an explicit make-up call for the uncalled defensive holding on the previous NW possession. On its own this call just makes no sense.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:53 PM ^
It was so bad that I have to believe they were confused when they announced it. I felt like our defensive ends were held on every play. I'm sure NW fans felt our DB's were covering too tight (including the defensive hold that the announcers pointed out). But that call was so off the beam. Just damn.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:53 PM ^
It was awful, BUT.....I’d rather get it now in a win, than have it impact the actual outcome of a game. It seemed like an enormous call at the time, but all it did was reduce how close we got to covering the spread. We may as well take it and run and hope things even out later.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:56 PM ^
The calls only get worse from here on out
September 29th, 2018 at 9:29 PM ^
Over under on 10 flags per game against MSU and OSU on the road. I’ll take the over...
September 29th, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
What are you talking about, it was a fourth quarter call in a deficit situation that negated a huge gain and a turning point in the game. Michigan had to play around the call. It impacted the final score. It was ridiculous.
September 29th, 2018 at 11:24 PM ^
So you're assuming that since the refs were caught red-handed that they're going to call it even from here out? That seems like wishful thinking.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
I think they got the number wrong. The worst calls I've ever seen was Desmond vs Staee, and Charles White.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
4th down OSU 2016 is the worst call ever. Charles White phantom TD #2. PI against Miami against OSU in 2002 #3. The Higdon call is top 5.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:45 PM ^
I think this is worse than White because White was in the end zone. The moron just missed the fumble. Incompetent, but a mistake.
This guy literally invented a fake penalty that has never happened in 100+ years of football.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:55 PM ^
Worst call ever? No, that is when he was short.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:21 PM ^
Agreed. That or Galarragas perfect game is the worst in my memory. This is up there though. Just a complete screw job.
September 29th, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
So someone posted they meant to call it on northwestern. If that is true that crew needs to be suspended point blank, no excuse for that at this level.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
I was sure they had the wrong number but apparently not...that was a whopper
September 29th, 2018 at 9:02 PM ^
I am usually quiet about the officials but this is getting out of control. Targeting bs, uncalled offensive holding, PI, etc. I can’t hardly watch this shit. I love football and am sad that it has come to this point.
September 29th, 2018 at 9:03 PM ^
Yes, the worst I've ever seen. I dont think it's possible to be more egregious. It's the kind of thing that feeds into Michigan fandome's I session with getting effed repeatedly. This just doesn't happen to other teams
September 29th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
It’s a fact, not an obsession. Happens in b-ball too.