CountryFrog
Active Member
You can't check for knee pad placement AND count the number of players on the field.
Big 12 refs are pathetic
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Horny4TCU
Active Member
Yeah, that knee pad crap was getting ridiculous.
Land Frog
Darn baylor!
Can we change our prediction spreadsheet based on this crew?
maddogDemocrat
Active Member
There u go again.
Froglaw
Full Member
What does that mean?
Realtorfrog
Full Member
This crew is definitely the bottom of an already questionable group of officials. I can think of 4 calls that were bad without even trying.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
Haven't watched my recording of the game but what did the announcers say about the targeting call reversal? From what I saw it was the definition of targeting. Took a 10-yard head start and launched into Turp leading with his helmet. Did replay show something different?
Yeah, then PI on us and non-PI on them, open field holding not called on them ...
refs were too busy looking at knee pads. Turrble.
Yeah, then PI on us and non-PI on them, open field holding not called on them ...
refs were too busy looking at knee pads. Turrble.
netty2424
Full Member
My DVR didn’t record last night. Someone’s got some splainin to do.
The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog
Full Member
He looks like Obama and it's a take on the Hangover where Zach Galifianakis says "thanks a lot, Bin Laden."
Ron Swanson
Full Member
The announcers basically said that the explanation they were given was that it was not targeting because he was not by rule a defenseless receiver. They didn’t really give an opinion at first, more just stated it as “fact”, but then later in the game one of them brought it up and said they didn’t understand how that wasn’t targeting.
To me, it was absolutely targeting. It was textbook targeting. Whether or not Turp was defenseless is beside the point, no?
I could see maybe missing that in live action, but overturning a replay? Makes no sense to me and I’m curious to hear what the Big 12 says.
East Coast
Tier 1
The announcers thought it was obvious targeting until the call was reversed. Then they went into "borderline call", maybe not defenseless, etc. I think the refs just made a terrible call. It should have been "personal foul with targeting", as it was surely a personal foul. Then when the targeting was reversed, we still get the 15 yards. A "personal foul - targeting" means if the targeting is reversed, there is no foul.
Also, to be fair, the only difference with this crew and others on the knee pad stuff is they were announcing it. The other crews just send the player off and don't say anything, similar to what they do when a player's helmet comes off.
The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog
Full Member
Yeah, even a lady in front of me said that the fact that he wasn't defenseless is irrelevant.
Bonner4Prez
KMA
Reggie scheisss us every year. Doesn't even surprise me anymore.
Pharm Frog
Full Member
Didn't see the game but I was kind of expecting this to be the case which is all the more reason to criticize this crew....they are the most intrusive, invasive species of zebras in the NCAA which might be somewhat forgiveable is they weren't so damn incompetent.
Bonner4Prez
KMA
And yes why does Reggie explain every single call? We know what happens when you fair catch a kickoff. We know what happens when there is an injury timeout in the last minute. Just say Iowa State declines the 10 second runoff.
MadFrog
Active Member
I heard the Big 12 told their refs their 2018 focus should be "knee pads". Clearly that is the only rule these refs (including the joke in the review booth) understand. The NCAA needs to drop the targeting rule and let the on field refs just call personal fouls WITHOUT a stupid booth review.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
Didn't know the player had to be defenseless on the targeting rule – use of a defender's helmet and blows to the head. Nonsense. That was blatant targeting. Hopefully beyond the stitches hope Turp has no long-term effects.
Pharm Frog
Full Member
He's an attention Briles. Loves him some airtime.
