B1G 10 Penalties/Officiating stats

[huskerfan66]

really? dude.....

It's true though. Go back and look at the Illinois game and I can't remember the other game....it was prior. The minute I saw who the crew was for Illinois I knew we were in trouble. One ref in particular really blew it in the prior game and she lived down to her expectations against Illinois. I did notice she didn't make any bowl games of consequence

 

[big red22]

Here’s the thing… you could show me a spreadsheet that shows that everybody had an equal amount of penalties and it wouldn’t show us anything.
If one team holds 30 times a game and doesn’t get called for it and both teams end the game with 8 penalties against them, was it called fairly?

If both teams were called for 8 penalties but one teams penalties were BS and called during pivotal points of the game, was it called fairly?

I know this was from over a month ago, but to make sure the OP and kong are clear on what is being said here

If Nebraska has 8 penalties and say Ohio St. had 8 penalties, but Neb only committed 5 of the 8 penaties and the other 3 were blatant errors. Then Ohio St had 8 penalties and there were 7 times blatant penalties were missed and/or no calls. That mean it was truly way more lopsided than the box score shows.

The problem I have with you folks that say things like @Husker4real

"You probably got my overall point that the drama queens constantly wailing about officiating has gotten to the point of absurdity. Every reasonable sports fan knows some calls get missed - and we all hate it when it goes against us. But these tortured attempts to quantify some nefarious conspiracy that doesn’t exist has gotten silly."

Is that not all penalties are created equal. Let's watch that video again and see the timing of those two offensive pass interference calls. Neither of those calls are made in 99% of every other game played this year yet Nebraska had 2 in the same game.

1. The first one called on Banks took away an amazing catch that he worked his ass off for and instead of being 1st and 10 in field goal range we are now in a 3rd and long damn near impossible position to be successful.

2. The second one to Neyor clearly should of been a no call, and instead in took us once again out of field goal range.

Those are points getting taken away by the refs, so I am going to bitch and moan until I see something fixed, because I am tired of seeing Nebraska play the opposing teams and the zebras every damn game. I just want a fair chance and we aren't getting it A LOT

 

[huntered]

Ya but the problem is if the officials in question are African American or a chick . Good luck in their removal.

I've seen some really good ones in both categories. to be as honest as possible some of those chicks don't belong and a bunch of white guys need to go as they appear year after year with idiotic calls.

 

[mgbreis]

It's true though. Go back and look at the Illinois game and I can't remember the other game....it was prior. The minute I saw who the crew was for Illinois I knew we were in trouble. One ref in particular really blew it in the prior game and she lived down to her expectations against Illinois. I did notice she didn't make any bowl games of consequence

It's not true though.

Ref that bent us over on the OSU phantom spot = middle-aged white dude.
Ref in the Illinois game that was 4 feet away from Banks (looking right at him) and didn't call a late hit out of bounds on 3rd & 42 in overtime = middle-aged white dude.

This is an officiating issue, not a race/gender issue. Let's try to use our brains here.

 

[big red22]

It's not true though.

Ref that bent us over on the OSU phantom spot = middle-aged white dude.
Ref in the Illinois game that was 4 feet away from Banks (looking right at him) and didn't call a late hit out of bounds on 3rd & 42 in overtime = middle-aged white dude.

This is an officiating issue, not a race/gender issue. Let's try to use our brains here.

Super funny you bring up the late hit in the Illinois game... comepletely separate from the Ohio State debacle

Then you have this no call at the end of the USC game



Then this beauty from the colorado game

See these are aĺl blatant NO CALLS, and quite honestly there are so many more

 

[Big bo fan]

It's not true though.

Ref that bent us over on the OSU phantom spot = middle-aged white dude.
Ref in the Illinois game that was 4 feet away from Banks (looking right at him) and didn't call a late hit out of bounds on 3rd & 42 in overtime = middle-aged white dude.

This is an officiating issue, not a race/gender issue. Let's try to use our brains here.

I wasn’t talking about officals in Nebraskas games . My response was to an OP who says the conferences need to replace/fire poor officials. I was just making an observation on its not easy to do that in some instances.

 

[mgbreis]

I wasn’t talking about officals in Nebraskas games . My response was to an OP who says the conferences need to replace/fire poor officials. I was just making an observation on its not easy to do that in some instances.

For the most part I don't even want officials fired. Just demand that they do better, and equip them via training and consequences. Instead, all we get is a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on part-time officials and enables their failures by (in most cases) refusing to hold them accountable.