Michigan 13, Western Michigan 12

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Roundball Sage
Scoregasm said:
I wonder if it were reversed and WMU threw the hail mary..... would they receive another play? I didn't have to wonder long....
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I didn’t have to wonder very long either. In fact, I thought of that immediately after the shocking theft on the field occurred.

But after some sober and calm reflection... perhaps we’ve all been too hard on the Refs and Game Officials!

In fact, may they sincerely enjoy all their new clothes and gift cards and cars and the new upscale neighborhoods they’ll all be moving to.

It’s only ‘Fair’, right? "Peace In Our... ’Time’."
 
#302      
Retro62
I'm watching the Apple Cup game, and at halftime, they explained that the BIG refs had the official time and that they showed video evidence that there was one second left on the clock when the WMU player toughed the ball. However, the player was also in the air, not out of bounds, and a deflection could have been caught for a score--so why does that stop the clock?

Also, all they showed was a computer shot of a clock that still had one second. Does anyone in their right mind not think they could have just created that shot of the clock to save their a**es after an obviously egregious act? Even if the clock we saw was tenths of a second off, the clock read 0:00 when the ball was in the air under the goal post--any tenths would have elapsed prior to the ball being touched or going out of bounds. It reeks of a BIG cover-up.
 
#303      
JSpence
Retro62 said:
I'm watching the Apple Cup game, and at halftime, they explained that the BIG refs had the official time and that they showed video evidence that there was one second left on the clock when the WMU player toughed the ball. However, the player was also in the air, not out of bounds, and a deflection could have been caught for a score--so why does that stop the clock?

Also, all they showed was a computer shot of a clock that still had one second. Does anyone in their right mind not think they could have just created that shot of the clock to save their a**es after an obviously egregious act? Even if the clock we saw was tenths of a second off, the clock read 0:00 when the ball was in the air under the goal post--any tenths would have elapsed prior to the ball being touched or going out of bounds. It reeks of a BIG cover-up.
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He went out of bounds without being forced out. He then jumped. He's an out-of-bounds piece of furniture, so the ball is dead as soon as it touches him.
 
#304      
Thaillini22
Throughout an entire game, after every dead ball, does the official clock get revised up to the previous second if, at the start of the play just ended, the clock had ticked down to the next second in less than a full second? If not, then the last play of the game should not be afforded this consideration.
 
#305      
SampsonRelpenk
Retro62 said:
I'm watching the Apple Cup game, and at halftime, they explained that the BIG refs had the official time and that they showed video evidence that there was one second left on the clock when the WMU player toughed the ball. However, the player was also in the air, not out of bounds, and a deflection could have been caught for a score--so why does that stop the clock?
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I’m also puzzled by that. Wouldn’t that be a penalty for “illegal touching” instead of an automatic clock stoppage, or is that only an offensive penalty?
 
#306      
Route47
AutoPoster 3000 said:
That’s not right though. If the clock is set to 9 seconds, it should display 0:09 for one full second after it is started before dropping to 0:08.

Clock set at 0:09
Ball snapped, clock starts
0.00 to 0.09 seconds elapsed —> clock displays “0:09”
1.00 to 1.09 seconds elapsed —> clock displays “0:08”
2.00 to 2.09 —> “0.07”
3.00 to 3.09 —> “0.06”
4.00 to 4.09 —> “0:05”
5.00 to 5.09 —> “0:04”
6.00 to 6.09 —> “0:03”
7.00 to 7.09 —> “0:02”
8.00 to 8.09 —> “0:01”
9:00—————> “0:00”

The play lasted 8.5 seconds from snap to WMU player touching the ball. By that math, at exactly 8.5 seconds elapsed, the clock should have still been displaying “0:01”. Which would mean one second remaining

This was my argument from before that the “evidence” suggests that a tech in the NBC control booth took one feed of a camera pointed at the scoreboard and split screened that with the main feed but for whatever technical reason the main feed was going to screen about a half or three quarters of a second behind the clock feed. The math would support that conclusion.
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I got ya. So the ball was touched at .5 seconds and they are saying the clock should have still read 1 second once the ball was touched. My question still stands 9 seconds is 9 seconds. So was the scoreboard clock started too early?
 
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