The last time an opposing OL was called for holding against Michigan was against MSU, then Air Force
That's pretty incredible. In 2016 Michigan B1G opponents had two holding calls all year. There's also this story from a few years ago that raised my eyebrows.
Ohio State was just called for their first hold in Big Ten play since 2013. This is not a misprint. 0 holds called on them in 2014.
— Andrew Pitz (@AndrewPitz) October 18, 2015
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I was confused with the roughing the passer penalty on Winovich. McSorely made a backwards pass over the head of Barkley, resulting in a McSorely fumble. Chase then hits McSorely. Since McSorely didn't make a forward pass, how can the ref call roughing the passer? What would the correct call be, anything? I thought you could hit the player who fumbled while the ball was still loose. It resulted in at least 25 yards and auto first down on what I believe was a scoring drive.
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October 23rd, 2017 at 8:43 AM ^
The truth is the Michigan fanbase is pretty much like every other fanbase in the country. It wasn't long ago that this blog and most of the commenters on it mercilessly made fun of Penn State fans who thought the Big Ten office had some sort of officiating conspiracy against them. Now Michigan is losing a few games and suddenly the fanbase has decided that the conspiracy is against us.
A week ago when our defense was #1 in the country no one was complaining about a lack of holds. Throw in a bad loss suddenly there's some sort of league office wide conspiracy to hurt Michigan's chances of winning games.
They got beat by a clearly better team. On to the next game.
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:51 AM ^
don't read MGoBlog often enough !
Go Blue!
October 23rd, 2017 at 10:26 AM ^
I don't see anyone saying the refs cost us the Ped St. game. 1 penalty is a joke yes, but they were clearly the better team.
Now MSU this year and OSU last year I can give you video evidence that the refs screwed us over a dozen times combined with a fair and honest argument that it impacted the game heavily in the opponents favor and possibly cost us the game in each instance.
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I think this is part of the reason he hasn't went on his usual tirades this year. I think it became clear that it was causing the 50-50 calls, or even 75-25 calls, to go the opposite way.
October 23rd, 2017 at 6:25 AM ^
There seems to be an anti-Michigan bias when it comes to reffing. This HAS to be our imagination, but whatever...
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This makes me think back to the last comments Harbaugh made in the Big Ten last year. "Bitterly disappointed" in the officiating. Hmmmm...
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
how every time the ref made a call he would side side to the direction of the team the penalty was on. It was driving me crazy.
October 23rd, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
If you really want to go down the "everyone hates Harbaugh including the refs who won't call holding on our defense" road, you'll need to compare pre and post-Harbaugh hire dates. If you wanted to say that the refs hated Don Brown, then your sample is a little better, but if it is because of Harbaugh, you'll have to do some more work.
October 23rd, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
On a separate but also complain-y/paranoid note, I thought I would bring this up because I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but: did Franklin try to score on that last drive? Didn't they snap the ball with one second left on the clock? I'm also pretty sure the previous few plays were snapped with like 20ish seconds on the play clock. Any other coach out there kneels on that.
My conspiracy theory is that Franklin was running something of a hurry-up offense there in the hopes one of those runs would shake loose and get in the end zone. I think he wanted to make the score look similar to last year's much more thorough beating they receieved in Ann Arbor. Fowler even hinted at it, too.
I think if they scored they would've LOVED that shit and would've flipped out celebrating like the true losers they are. Then if they asked Franklin about it he would say some shit like 'we were just running our base offense blah blah' even though they could've taken a knee three plays earlier. Or if someone asked why they snapped it and didn't score he had some plausible deniability and could say 'if we wanted to score we would have, etc.'.
This guy is such a loser it makes my stomach hurt. Harbaugh is gonna put a curse on that motherfucker. I hope they got stomped again next year and Michigan runs it up on em. Nothing is too harsh for these creeps.
October 23rd, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
are not taught to sell holding. Most holding calls are legit, many others are the defensive player selling it to the ref. usually by losing his feet, or some wild flailing arm movements.
MSU does this constantly and with great affect.
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:52 PM ^