Comments on: Cliff: Sunday football notes

By: berzirk

berzirk — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:58 +0000

Whew, I'm so tired of lousy Pac 10 officiating. Props to the commish for doing something about it in the instance of the near decapitation of Rodgers. I've talked with OSU coaches across 3 sports and they said that other coaches in the conference and across the country, pretty much all agree that the Pac-10 has the worst officials in the country. It's one thing to miss calls, but when they're blowing the calls on replay as consistently as they do too, it's unbelievable. Not sure enough one-sided bad calls occurred to change the outcome of the game, but I read in an LA publication there was an illegal block on the punt return for a TD too. I dunno, I'm just tired of more and more good games being marred by crappy work by the officials.

By: tim33

tim33 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:33:20 +0000

Isn't that Mays on the horse collar tackle too? The announcers pointed out that missed call. Good thing these didn't change the outcome, but just wait. Doesn't anyone remember Oregon and Oklahoma a few years ago?

By: mckalk

mckalk — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:43:25 +0000

Cliff,
Since James Rodgers is OK, I'm actually glad that play happened because otherwise some really bad officiating would have been swept under the rug and at least this helps call into question the continued issues. Also, Mays should be suspended for a game.
I still think the P-10 is wimping out by not naming the suspended official or comment on the exact play. I don't know if you noticed, but the official who called the phantom personal foul penalty in the Florida/Arkansas game actually spoke to the press and admitted that he should have never thrown his flag because he did not see the whole play clearly. Kind of refreshing to see that level of accountability. Only hope the P-10 follows suit at some point.

By: Cliff: Pac-10 official suspended « Cliff Kirkpatrick

Cliff: Pac-10 official suspended « Cliff Kirkpatrick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:19:35 +0000

[...] click this link to my blog entry from Sunday to see two photos of no-calls against the Beavers. There was a discussion in my office [...]

By: ckirkpatrick

ckirkpatrick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:38:29 +0000

I've noticed the snaps have been like that for a while, mostly floaters that I noticed. But Riley didn't mention it as a problem. I keep meaning to bring it up, but I forget because it hasn't resulted in a problem, yet.

By: RMD

RMD — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:03:47 +0000

All I can say is wow! Fun game to watch from an entertainment standpoint, but my God the refs were awful! I'm not going to say that the refs were responsible for the outcome of the game (they weren't; bad player decisions and missed opportunities were), but they continue to be a black eye on the Pac-10. At best they are inconsistent from minute to minute and game to game and at worse they appear to be playing favorites. Neither makes our conference look good on a national stage.
I hope the new commish sees this and does something before the rest of the CF community blows us off as a ridiculous conference that can't seem to get any aspect of accurate and fair refing right. Jeeze we even manage to get instant replay wrong at times. Come on!

By: aaron_

aaron_ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:42:09 +0000

it is just unbeleivable how bad, year after year, the refs are in the pac-10. I mean for god sake we are the pac-10, not the sun-belt or big sky confrence! they need some serious retraining. Lets hope the new commish makes an example…

By: sdbeav

sdbeav — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:54 +0000

Hey Cliff was there any mention from Riley about the shotgun snaps on Saturday? Seemed to me like every one of them was either high or kind of a lazy floater. Canfield handled all of them and clearly played well but I felt like they cost him that split second which could be costly.

By: ckirkpatrick

ckirkpatrick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:25:01 +0000

Under the old guy, no way. They are his buddies.
The new guy doesn't have a body of work to say he would or not.

By: aaron_

aaron_ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:47:54 +0000

Yes, the calls were suspect or non-calls. The "pick" on Adenji near the endzone was bad. The closline on James Rodgers was unexplainable. And there were a feww more. Cliff the SEC recently suspended a crew for some blown calls, is there any chance our new commish follows suit and holds the refs accountable?