pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Michigan 19, Illinois 17 Postgame
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
When the blind mice make 4 calls that terrible it should make someone in the B1G office take notice ......I would sign a petition as a B1G and Illini fan to make it mandatory that officials receive disciplinary actions against them and make them forfeit their paychecks for any game when they make calls this bad.....
Also , they should have monthly eyesight exams and attend mandatory continuing education of the friggin rules so we don't see so much huddling up and taking forever to make a call on obvious fouls committed...........Call them into the commissioner's office and go over disputed calls they made and ask why they screwed up on such obvious flagging plays........
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO BE DONE HERE AS IT MAKES A GAME SUCH A JOKE WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY INEPT OFFICIALS MAKING BLATANT WRONG CALLS OR NOT MAKING OBVIOUS FOULS CALLED......................
Again , I'm pissed just as bad as BB is ..........................................jmho
Also , they should have monthly eyesight exams and attend mandatory continuing education of the friggin rules so we don't see so much huddling up and taking forever to make a call on obvious fouls committed...........Call them into the commissioner's office and go over disputed calls they made and ask why they screwed up on such obvious flagging plays........
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO BE DONE HERE AS IT MAKES A GAME SUCH A JOKE WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY INEPT OFFICIALS MAKING BLATANT WRONG CALLS OR NOT MAKING OBVIOUS FOULS CALLED......................
Again , I'm pissed just as bad as BB is ..........................................jmho
Why do you think they aren't being called? $$$$$$$$$$$
Doesn't he know he's supposed to keep his mouth shut and continue to collect that ever increasing big fat juicy pay check.
I’d like to see a fine B1G enough to capture national media attention, prompting media to play short video clips of the egregious calls/non-calls to explain the fine. Josh could then give Bert a fat raise, far exceeding the fine, a win-win.
I know that, but it makes me feel a little better to vent and Santa is coming soon so let me dream.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
So $$$$$$ still is the root of all evil........And ethics and fair play takes a back seat to $$$$$$$..........OK , then we should call it the B$G 10...................
B$G 10...................kinda catchy isn't it ?
I have said for years that the BIG has crews/officials that are assigned to games they want to make sure turn out with the "right" result. There is way too much money involved is college sports. If the blatant missed calls aren't obvious enough, think about all the times they go to video review and still make the wrong call. Impossible for anyone to be that incompetent. Find me a high school ref that would've screwed up that many times. I mean, we have a BIG basketball ref who was fired as a policeman TWICE for corruption.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Larry $. is my name
and corruption's my game...........It really really is...........
Has there been any word from the Big Ten office in regards to the officiating of our game? I am slightly surprised they haven't come out with an apology.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
If they apologize they're admitting that there was an issue. Once they admit there's an issue they'll be under pressure to do something about it, and IMO that just isn't going to happen. As others have posted more eloquently than I, there is a $tatu$ quo to be maintained.
The B1G can't risk not getting a team in the play off. The money the conference gets from that is too good to pass up
in the biggest passive aggressive move ever, it'd be hilarious to go out and kneel every down the next time we play them. if they want to make it a farce, let's make it a farce
Correction: bribe - there, fixed it for you
Then let the NCAA address the root cause. Distribute the CFP revenue pool evenly to all members. There, radically reduced incentive for B$G to cheat its Western Ghetto schools out of hard-won victories on the playing field.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Well , it's looks like the winner next week between scUM - osu is in the playoffs............So , it was too b$g of a risk for our game to be called fairly and
us winning the game would have put to risk the large payoff for the playoffs.......Hmmm , by that reasoning I guess we should expect a tie between scUM and osu ......right ??........Does the B$G get more $$$$ for having 2 teams in the playoffs.......asking for MYSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When is enough ENOUGH ??.........more $$$ here .....B$TN + there..........$$$$$ to grab everywhere !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....forgot e$pn +.................
If it ever comes to light that games ARE being fixed for more $$$$$ then I will call the FBI , the CIA , and Interpol to have the rascals arrested and severely tortured for playing with my Illini fanatical emotions like that.......I am NOT a yo-yo......I'm really really not ...........................
update: If it is all fixed for the B$G to get all the money , and I know the Illini would share in that $$$ , or at least I hope so , then I say ..............
BRING BACK THE CHIEF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........To h*ll with all this unethical jargon and bring back our CHIEF.........
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What if we just left the B10? I mean i dont know how things could really ever truly improve for us in football with the conference clearly playing favorites with certain schools.
I get that it is slightly bigger of an issue leaving the conference from a basketball stand point. But maybe ol’ syracuse jimmy B had a point. We might have a better chance at a natty playing in one of the tourny dominating conferences.
I get that it is slightly bigger of an issue leaving the conference from a basketball stand point. But maybe ol’ syracuse jimmy B had a point. We might have a better chance at a natty playing in one of the tourny dominating conferences.
Can’t leave. It’s a conundrum. We benefit from the money too. But have to find a way to get the money out of determining results and just let the chips fall where they may. Just egregious stuff happened Saturday that refs can’t miss.
The funniest possible outcome of all this would be for Michigan to lose to OSU, for us to sneak into the title game, and then knock off Michigan resulting in zero bids for the B1G.
The refs didn’t miss the egregious stuff, their calls WERE the egregious stuff (live and worse, on replay). The rest was just football.
the national
- the Front Range
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
The missed calls, failed reviews, and some questionable calls pretty much encompasses the egregious stuff that happened Saturday. No reason to single out the calls that they did make, as the call they didn't make single handedly kept Michigan's game winning drive alive.
Illinir1
- Camdenton, MO
For anyone who doesn't think this was offensive pass interference (I've encountered some non-Illini fans who don't think so, think it was questionably close, or aren't sure), the following is from the 2022 NCAA Football Rulebook. I had to look up the definition of "neutral zone" and it is two parallel lines extending to the sideline, one from the pre-snap nose of the football and the other from the pre-snap tail of the football (on this play it's the 45 yard line stripe):
b. Offensive pass interference is contact by a Team A player beyond the neutral zone that interferes with a Team B player during a legal forward pass play in which the forward pass crosses the neutral zone. It is the responsibility of the offensive player to avoid the opponents. It is not offensive pass interference (A.R. 7-3-8-IV, V, X, XV and XVI):
1. When, after the snap, a Team A ineligible player immediately charges and contacts an opponent at a point not more than one yard beyond the neutral zone and maintains the contact for no more than three yards beyond the neutral zone. (A.R. 7-3-10-II) RULE 7 / SNAPPING AND PASSING THE BALL FR-83
2. When two or more eligible players are making a simultaneous and bona fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either team have equal rights to the ball (A.R. 7-3-8-IX).
3. When the pass is in flight and two or more eligible players are in the area where they might receive or intercept the pass and an offensive player in that area impedes an opponent, and the pass is not catchable.