Michigan MSU officiating vs. Louisville national title game

Submitted by ThadMattasagoblin on
Which one between these was worse? In one game we have a missed block, a missed goaltend, a bad 2nd foul on Trey, and getting the foul on the wrong Louisville player allowing them to stay in the game. In the MSU game we have a missed targeting call, a missed facemask, a missed completion by Jake Butt that was reviewed and still missed, and getting the penalty called on the wrong team before correcting it.
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CorkyCole

October 18th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^

And that could be. I know there were some really bad calls against Louisville though too. More than there were against MSU in this game. Overall officiating was terrible in that game on a play by play basis. The problem for me is that the MSU game had so many costly bad calls. Not really petty ones but ones that changed drives substantially. The Louisville game was obviously a bigger game, but I feel like if you took that out of the equation then the MSU calls had a more costly impact overall. That Trey foul was the worst though.

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JHendo

October 18th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^

As a former long snapper, that was the first thing I noticed when I rewatched the play. There was no two ways about it; his head was still down when he got bumrushed. That was blatant roughing the snapper and the 2nd worst incorrect/missed call of the game.

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Section 35

October 18th, 2015 at 6:43 PM ^

How the hell is this NOT called. It is OBVIOUS and yes I am still pissed. Personal foul, 15 yards and automatic first down. Take a knee and we win. What in the hell were these officials watching? Clearly nothing! Our lopng snapper got blown up 5 yards off the ball as soon as he snapped it. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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CorkyCole

October 18th, 2015 at 1:54 PM ^

You forgot a few in this game as well. Personal foul call against Willie Henry (?) and the pass interference call that would have been an interception to name a couple.

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ThirdVanGundy

October 18th, 2015 at 1:54 PM ^

These UM/MSU refs were arguably more incompetant from the beginning to the end of the game but the refs vs Louisville made absolutely horrid calls that costed us a national title. God I look back at that team and get pissed just thinking about us not winning that title. Luke fucking Hancock of all people...

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Tendero26

October 18th, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^

Louisville. Last night we had a chance to win despite the bad refereeing, unlike the Louisville game. Our boys played their hearts out last night and I am trying my best to not let one fluke play ruin it all.
GO BLUE!

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BlueinLansing

October 18th, 2015 at 1:59 PM ^

this was one of the worst officiated sporting contests I've ever witnessed in person.  I thought so sitting in the stands.  Re-watching the game on TV and I'm even more appalled at just how poorly those men did their jobs yesterday.

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A Fan In Fargo

October 18th, 2015 at 5:20 PM ^

the envy and hate for this unversity will not go away. Refs will always go out of their way to screw Michigan over. Only two things you can do. Get better and let the current and future players know that this is always going to be probable. If you always come to suspect it then the momentum doesn't swing so badly and it's not such a shock. It keeps your head on the next plays. Someone be the relay person here and get the message out in Ann Arbor! Damnit! When I come back in 2017 for the next game vs. State I want to them boys to be ready for everything bullshit.

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ThadMattasagoblin

October 18th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^

Most of the level headed Spartans around me were even saying that we were getting hosed. I felt like a USA fan in an international competition the way we got constantly got flagged for shit we didn't even do.

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JamieH

October 18th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^

That was honestly the worst officiated basketball game I think I've ever seen, outside of some of the travesties in the NBA Finals that are the source of the biggest officiating conspiraciy theorys (LA-SAC, Dallas-Miama).

This was a terribly officiated college football game, but I've seen lots of terribly officaited college football games, and this wasn't appreciably worse than those.  College football officials, in general, are not very good.  But neither are NFL officials.  For whatver reason, there is has not been a very concerted effort to make football officiating good at any level, so it continues to just suck at all levels. 

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turtleboy

October 18th, 2015 at 2:17 PM ^

Well, the Louisville call was more costly, because it took a national title from Michigan, but it was really one call. Last night's game was 2, maybe 3 dozen horrible calls and obvious non-calls for both teams, but it only cost us a shot at a conference championship. Is that right? If sparty losses to OSU, then we beat them the next week does our out-of-conference loss count against us in the tie-break?

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jatlasb

October 18th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^

It's possible to have a discussion about the failings of the referres--who were abysmal for BOTH sides--without trying to blame the loss on the officiating.

 

That game was horribly officated.  Period.  DId the officiating affect the outcome?  No.  Should we talk about how bad the refs were to demand higher standards moving forward? Yes. 

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cp4three2

October 18th, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^

We didn't lose yesterday because of the refs, we lost because we dropped a snap. We didn't lose to Louisville because of a bad call on a block. We were losing when Burke got called for a foul. We lost the national title because Luke Hancock hit a bunch of threes and we sat Burke a min or two too long. 

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