I am not an OU fan by any means, but the officiating at the Oregon game was criminal. I saw no less than five blantant calls against OU that any competent ref would not have made. I could see one or two, but that off-side kick was given to Oregon was a disgrace. I hope the NCAA pulls their cards for life. At the very least, make them take drug testing. They had to be hallucinating.
Game was at Autzen, right? PAC-10 officials? If so, that explains the bad officiating.
PAC-10 officials are well known to be the worst in the country. So bad that a few years ago, during the bowl season when the officials are not from either of the two conferences playing in the game, the announcers were questioning a call made by the PAC-10 crew and they stated that the PAC-10 officials are known for blowing calls. PAC-10 officiating sucks, plain and simple.
I guess I am not the only one.
Memo to the people of the fine state of Oklahoma: don't riot or do anything destructive tonight ... even though you'd be justified to feel like doing something violent. After all, this game was violently taken away from a deserving bunch of Sooners by inept officiating and even more inept replay evaluators.
Yes, it's very rare for analysis of a football game to so frontally, emotionally and nakedly talk about the officiating; this is a very rare practice, precisely because it seems like bad form on the part of the writer. An article about lousy officiating is almost never written because fans can easily interpret such an article as a sign of bias entrenched and unprofessional on the part of the author.
But in the wake of Saturday's game in Eugene won by Oklahoma in every true sense, but not on the official scoreboard normal practices have to give way to a rare approach. After all, what happened in the final minutes of this game was anything but normal.
There's no way to sugar-coat it or talk around it, and there's no need to be indirect in speaking about it: plainly put, the Pac-10 officiating crew made an incorrect ruling on Oregon's recovery of an onsides kick in the final 75 seconds. However, that is supposed to be acceptable in this day and age, because if the zebras mess up, the replay review system is supposed to set things right. And when all of America saw the replay of that onsides kick, the country's football fans saw that an Oregon player touched the ball after it had traveled 9.5 yards. Not 10, but nine and a half. That much was obvious.
Not to the replay official, though, for reasons that boggle the human mind. Oregon a dead team was given the football equivalent of several organ transplants ... unethically. Oklahoma who had earned a tough road victory with a surprisingly mature effort from Paul Thompson and an overwhelmingly physical second half was given the football equivalent of hidden poison delivered by a friend, lover, or anyone else you'd expect to treat you with kindness and decency.
When this kind of an outrage occurs, the rest of the proceedings are rendered irrelevant. Sad, because a lot of players spilled their guts in Eugene. Adrian Peterson was a man among boys. OU's defense picked itself off the deck after being stunned in the game's opening minutes. Dennis Dixon overcame flop sweat to regather himself for the game's frantic finish, but it's a finish he and Oregon didn't deserve to have.
Oklahoma made a big statement with its performance on Saturday; with this level of football, the Sooners can compete with Texas and the rest of the Big XII. But sadly, Bob Stoops and his players were robbed of a celebration they deserved to have. Such is the awful reality of this game, and its astonishing, ugly ... and tainted ... outcome.
Great thread title...
Pac 2 officials arent used to seeing any 'real' speed and dont know how to react. Simple.
As usual the Pac 10 Officials made a major screwup today in Eugene. Even the announcers, one of which ( Dan Fouts) is an Oregon graduate, stated on national television that the onside kick was touched by the Oregon player first before traveling 10 yards. And it was clearly visiable to the whole nation but one guy-the stuped replay offical. Oklahoma was ROBBED. These officials should be reprimanded in some manner.
I can sum-it up in 3 words - Home Field Advantage
Its called Karma....I hate Oklahoma....Brian Bosworth...steroid freak......cheaters in the 80's for sures but hey I bet you didnt complain than did you!
Deano
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yeah... you're probably right, the east coast does'nt get enough favoritism....
unleashed, you either did not look at my avatar or do not know what it means for an OSU fan to side with OU. If OU had gotten beat fair and square, I would have joined the celebration. If it had been one incident, I would have reminded and OU/OSU game that OU won by a similar call. Calls like this ruin the sport. If the officiating is allowed to be so biased and corrupt, then the BCS controversy means nothing. The BCS means nothing. The games mean nothing.
This is more than just incompetence. This is criminal.
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