Just did a google search and the game was $1.5 mil to WMU. Relative to their budget that's enormous.
Michigan 13, Western Michigan 12
Just did a google search and the game was $1.5 mil to WMU. Relative to their budget that's enormous.
This event of a failed game ending was/is a wider test of integrity. You have a chance to do the right thing in front of the World and make things right, or not. And your response says a great deal about ‘you’.
So instead, the Not-Nearly-As-Big-Looking-Now-Ten showed where They rate on the Integrity Scale. Not that we are naive enough to have expected anything different or more fair.
Western Michigan’s Conference doesn’t come off looking too good either. We know they want the big paydays going forward and aren’t going to rock the boat too much. But the weak response to an obvious egregious error does not show much pride or ability to stand up for the teams in your Conference.
This all was a form of Morality Play. And mostly, showing all the ‘players’ involved at all levels have failed the moment.
One thing is for sure. A whole lot of people have already learned a whole lot of things about how modern College Athletics and Administrators roll today.
This talk about hidden clocks and out-of-bounds feet ignores UM science leadership. Babylon Bee reports what really happened in Ann Arbor: UM Science Breakthrough in Time Travel
Someone else went and did it. I would have also added a view of the delay clock and detailed the blips there, but I understand why they didn't include it.
Holy moly, I'm glad I didn't make the effort. The top relies we see are people saying that it doesn't matter because we go by the clock on the field. This video is literally showing the clock on the field. My faith in humanity has been shaken this weekend with how ridiculously tribal many neutrals have been in their conviction of the facts. I hope that nothing like this ever happens to us.
By the way, our scoreboard is a Daktronic. We and the majority of other schools likely have the same vulnerability.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
The caption of the video is rather amusing under the circumstances, but this does finally have everything in the same video, albeit grainy and at a bad angle to really see what happened.
Evidence in favor of the call being "correct" rather than the reverse, I would admit, but by no means "indisputable video evidence" and if you haven't seen the light of the wisdom of the NFL rule by now, I give up.
If someone is able to definitively say that they believe WMU would have been given the same opportunity if the roles were reversed and they had thrown the Hail Mary, then I feel like the controversy would die out. Problem is, we know that wouldn't have happened. Full stop.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Interesting note from Mike Pereira, the Fox Sports rules analyst:
"The official replay officials have been told that if there is a discrepancy, use the television footage," Pereira said. "Do not use your footage in the command center. Use the footage that 10 million people are watching, not the one that's there."
So it sounds like the command center who made the call, not the officials on the field, broke protocol to award Michigan the extra second of play.
www.foxsports.com
"The official replay officials have been told that if there is a discrepancy, use the television footage," Pereira said. "Do not use your footage in the command center. Use the footage that 10 million people are watching, not the one that's there."
So it sounds like the command center who made the call, not the officials on the field, broke protocol to award Michigan the extra second of play.
Replay Protocol Breakdown: Mike Pereira Explains Michigan Clock Controversy
To clear up Saturday night's confusion, FOX Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira joined Joel Klatt on Monday to weigh in on the controversial ending of the Michigan-Western Michigan game.
www.foxsports.com
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
What an embarrassment to Michigan and the Big Ten. What a joke.
I’m sure they gave WMU some additional monies under the table.
I’m sure they gave WMU some additional monies under the table.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
That’s just not how college football works. According to the NCAA rulebook, there are no tenths of a second, and when the clock strikes 00:00, the game is over.
So if the clock displays 00:09 remaining, there’s truly only 8 seconds remaining in the game. The clock will instantly roll over from 00:09 to 00:08 and then when the clock strikes 00:00, the game is over. The fact that a stopwatch shows the play lasted 8.5 seconds proves that Western Michigan won the game.
Which is why the B1G’s explanation has nothing to do with tenths of seconds. They aren’t saying “oh, there were was actually half a second left, so we rounded it back up to 1 second” because by rule, tenths of seconds do not exist in college football games. Instead, the B1G is relying on a secret clock that no one else in the world had access to and still showed 1 full second remaining. Which is impossible. How could a play that lasted 8.5 seconds (via stopwatch) still have a full second remaining when the clock started at 9 seconds?
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