If you thought the officiating was bad in last year's Oregon-Oklahoma game, the Pac Ten officials have taken incompetence to a new level in last week's Washington-Oregon State game, and Pac Ten Commissioner Tom Hansen is not amused:
"Our review of the game included study of the game tape by Coordinator of Football Officiating Dave Cutaia, Director of Instant Replay Verle Sorgen, football administrator Jim Muldoon and me, review of game reports from the officiating crew and instant replay officials, communications with the two institutions and follow-up communications with the referee of the game."We regret that there was flagrant misconduct on the part of some players which led to four ejections from the game, that there was an injury to Washington quarterback Jake Locker which increased the emotions of the players and that the instant replay crew failed to stop the game to review the play at the goal line with just under three minutes to play. On the play, it was ruled Oregon State's Yvenson Bernard fumbled. However, it appeared his knee had touched the ground before he lost the ball...
"We do believe the instant replay officials did not perform properly on the Bernard fumble play. There was human error in that while reviewing the available replays the crew failed to notify the game officials to stop play before the ball was snapped for the next play. It was not the fault of the equipment. The game should have been stopped and the play reviewed. The members of the IR crew have been reprimanded."
As for the hit on Locker, which has gotten alot of attention, Hansen is less critical of the officials, stating, "We believe the helmet-to-helmet contact on the hit on Locker was inadvertent. College football is played at a very high speed, and hard collisions such as this one result. Thankfully, Locker apparently did not suffer a serious injury."
In addition to last year's debacle between Oregon and Oklahoma, Pac Ten officials have come under scrutiny this year by USC Head Coach Pete Carroll, who won an apology from officials over a blown review against Notre Dame and still has trouble understanding why USC's opponents are the least-penalized in the conference while his teams are drawing the most yellow flags.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-13-2007 @ 5:01PM
Rhology said...
Pac-10, what the heck is wrong with your replay booth people? Get it fixed!!!
This from an Oklahoma fan.
But this is not quite as bad as OU-UO in 2006. There were THREE badly missed calls in that game.
1) The Oregon player touched the ball on the onside kick before it had gone 10 yards. Oklahoma ball.
2) Allen Patrick recovered the ball after the onside kick. Oklahoma ball.
3) Oregon driving, 3rd and long (I think) Dixon throws a ~15 yard ball over the middle, it's TIPPED by an OU lineman or LB near the line of scrimmage, pass interference called on OU. But you can't call pass interference on a tipped ball. Replay officials missed THAT one too.
So, UDub-Beavers is bad, but not that bad.
I'd call it about equal to 2005's Oklahoma-Texas Tech ending.
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11-13-2007 @ 7:27PM
Duck-U said...
Awwww Rhology, too bad your guys couldn't protect your kicker. Then the scoreboard wouldn't have read 34-33 DUCKS....Cheer up though, maybe you'll get a remach in the title game this year, except the Ducks won't need any gimmy's from the ref's this time to wipe the floor with the sorry sooners!
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11-13-2007 @ 8:26PM
Jim said...
Looks like the officials were doing their Ward Cleaver imitation... they were a little hard on the beavers. At least it didn't affect the outcome of the game as it did last year with Oregon/Oklahoma.
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11-13-2007 @ 11:50PM
Cheryl said...
You think that is bad, you should see some of the unbelievibly bad calls that the Big 12 officals have made... You would have thought they would have gotten better over the years since the CU/MU 5th down call years ago, but alas they haven't. You wonder if they were paying attention when they went to ref school. Blantant missed calls for all Big 12 teams have been missed costing some schools what should have been a winning game.
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11-14-2007 @ 11:10AM
Rhology said...
Duck-U,
I suppose you saw, then, each of those three terrible calls I mentioned and have a response to how they were justifiable?
You want to win by cheating, like I guess your coach does too (since Dixon explicitly said that he told Bellotti that the ball was tipped on the #3 bad call), I guess you're welcome to it.
It's one thing to say that the Dux would smash the Schooners in the Championship game. Talk that all you want - that's good fun. But don't pretend like the refs didn't donate the 06 game to the Dux.
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