BlueLikeJazz

November 28th, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^

that, whether consciously or subconsciously, this crew decided that they weren't calling anything on OSU that is a judgement type call--so no PI, no holding, no late hits, no personal fouls, and probably no facemasks unless they were blatantly obvious. 

I really really really want Michigan to have another shot at them with neutral refs and a healthy Speight.

George Pickett

November 28th, 2016 at 8:46 PM ^

So a game at OSU called by an OSU alum and officiated by two OSU fans was reviewed by a conference benefitting from an OSU win, and it was determined that OSU didn't commit penalties, according to a guy who works for Fox, which owns the BTN.

Blue Durham

November 29th, 2016 at 10:01 AM ^

1st, if the Big Ten's review was going to be anything, it was going to be self-serving, so they were going to find virtually nothing.

2nd, due to the discrepancy in penalties, as well as all of the non-calls that went in favor of Ohio State, they wouldn't throw gas on the fire, they would find a token miss that OSU should have been penalized.

Finally, that token miss was not going to be in the 4th Q or in the OTs where the game was decided, it was going to be in the 1st Q, 2nd at the latest, where said missed call would have little to no impact on the outcome of the game.

In short, regardless of what was on the film, the Big Ten review was not going to find anything.

SlickNick

November 28th, 2016 at 8:09 PM ^

Doesn't surprise me...there's no way the league didn't know about the Ohio past of those refs, not to mention the guy who they previously fired. It's an inside job.

Michigan4Life

November 28th, 2016 at 11:54 PM ^

the conference hire and assign the referees to all of the home conference team's games, not the individual schools.  Every home team pay the refs based on mileage from home and X set amount of money they're being paid to ref the game.

I know this because I work in college athletics.  Just the way it works.

freejs

November 29th, 2016 at 3:07 AM ^

I deleted my comment which probably would have gotten me in trouble. Instead, I will just say your post is incomprehensible, it is non-responsive to the post you replied to, and it adds next to nothing to our understanding of how or why the biggest game in the Big Ten in a decade was assigned to a crew that was exclusively from a state where everyone is swaddled in a Buckeye binky at birth. I get that you're excited to tell us you work in college athletics. Are you suggesting that the Buckeyes could say, gee we only have about 100 bucks to spare, so the guys have gotta all live in Columbus? What the fuck are you driving at? 

bigmc6000

November 28th, 2016 at 8:12 PM ^

One?!?!?!?! Holy crap, they ALL need to be fired... what about the unsportsmanlike conduct after the peppers interception? Thats a 15 yarder to anyone who isn't a bucknut.




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