Big Ten official: No regrets about Michigan-Ohio State calls
Maybe one day officials will actually be held accountable for their mistakes. That doesn't appear to be today. From Angelique...
Bill Carollo, Big Ten coordinator of football officials, certainly remembers. He took several calls from Harbaugh who was outraged by the first-down spot given to OSU quarterback J.T. Barrett on a fourth-down play that led to the Buckeyes’ eventual winning touchdown. Harbaugh after the game held his hands apart about a foot and said his view of the first down was “that short.”
“We talked multiple times,” Carollo said Tuesday during Big Ten media days.
There was considerable outrage among Michigan fans after the game because of the makeup of the crew, particularly the Ohio residents. Carollo said he sent his best crew, which consisted of three officials from Michigan, three from Ohio, four from Indiana, one from Illinois, and one from Pennsylvania.
He said his officials will recuse themselves if there is a conflict of interest.
“I have about 12 different categories of conflicts of interest, not just, ‘Did you play football at Michigan or Wisconsin or wherever it might be,’” he said. “So we have that. It’s all written and we have that. Residency is not one of my conflicts of interest. They have to live somewhere. But if you live somewhere, and you feel there’s any doubt, you take yourself off. I’ll give you another — you’re not losing a game. We have a lot of people that raise their hand and say, ‘I should not work here. My best friend’s in the front office of this team.’
“It was handled fine. It was one of my top crews. That crew went on to work the semifinal playoff game.”
Carollo knows it’s impossible to call a perfect game. And the Michigan-Ohio State officiating, he said, was not perfect.
“Are there mistakes in a few games? Yes. Were there some in that game? Yes,” Carollo said. “Did they have a good game? Yes. Solid game. It wasn’t perfect. Never is. Never will be. But I think the conversation with coach and Michigan was handled properly.”
Cool. Michigan still lost. Don't need a reminder.
Call was reviewed in the booth too. If it was a bad call, it would have been overturned. Some people just gloss over this fact. I guess everyone was in on it...
50/50 call that didn't go our way. Move on.
As far as I know no one at the B1G office has commented on the officiating of the game until now, so it's news. If you didn't want a reminder you could have easily not clicked on the thread.
...but when I do, he's usually SPOT on.
Well put, my friend.
He didn't say he thought the spot was correct. He just said the calls with Harbaugh went OK. I guess this is progress.
Fuck you
Especially that one. One of the biggest damn games in all of sports for '16. Bajillion eyeballs watching. Yeah, I'm sure a ref is going to voluntarily take himself off that game. My fucking ass.
So they'd be 100% honest and recuse themselvves so they can ref the Rutgers or Northwestern game
You had a pretty inexperienced team that committed penalties at a pretty decent rate going up against an expereinced team that had one of the smallest penalty rates. And just out of the blue those roles reversed, uh huh yea, sure Big10.
That they addressed it at media days, but can we let this die now? We're so close to 2017 kickoff, the last thing we need is reminders of pain that will be remedied in a few months. Lord knows ESPN and every other news outlet will beat this dead horse again come November.
Everyone knows it's REGERTS!
I think I am okay with the First down call to be honest with ya'll. It was other horrible calls, PI on GP that wasn't called, early PI on OSU again that wasn't called. The BS PI that WAS called on blue. And of course, I honestly believe that if they don't call Mason Cole for that lame ass offensive facemask call on the perfect screen play, we win that game. Of all games and the situation, the refs had to see that. I think you have to swallow the whistle on that one, he didn't pull or twist, just a face palm, know what im sayin?
that occurred during the play that he came up just short would have been cool too. Like you said, if they are going to call the facemask on Cole, better call a hold, and likewise with the pass interferences.
This is exactly why the Big Ten needs to have centralized replay from Chicago as it would take the call out of the officials hands. The conference then couldn't hide behind officials using the standard "judgment call" excuse.
Have you seen some of the replays for the Tigers games, where the centrally located NY office handles the replay? It amazes me how bad calls continue to stand, almost in a defiant manner.
would not have changed the first down. That was part of how brutal that call was that the ref just went to the first down line and marked it there knowing that it was close enough that it would not be reversed. Just really evil.
I rail against the shitty officiating in that game as much as anyone, but I never had a problem with "The Spot". It was close enough that I could see it being called either way.
I had a problem with the ten or so penalties that OSU got away with in regulation that were blindingly obvious calls (Darboh getting hogtied to the ground, Mike Weber's cheap shot late hit, Butt getting bear hugged a couple of times) but the refs refused to call. The game would have never made it to OT if the refs had called it fair throughout the game. UM would have won by 7-10 in regulation with fair officiating.
The last two MSU games have been just as bad. Fully expecting much of the same again this year.
Sounds like to a large extent Carollo is putting the refs on the honor system as to whether or not they should work in any particular game. Not sure that works very well with those having Ohio State connections.
else Corollo is going to say about it. I mean we saw what we saw, inconsistencies on various calls made to benefit the home team versus the visitors. Penalties called that weren't called in other circumstances. This was a poorly olfficiated game and it ended well for the home team. If that was Carollo's best crew, my opinion is that it sucked big time and that it was given a playoff game because every conference crew got one, and so it was awarded by default.
I don't care where the officials live, either. I believe their job requires integrity on a weekly basis. It requires consistency on a weekly basis. This crew on that day in November sucked. They missed calls or failed to apply the same standards in making certain calls. Doesn't change anything. Another life lesson.
F*** that game in the ear. This thread has ruined my reasonably good mood.
of Ohio based refs who are OSU slappies gargling OSU testicles fortnightly aren't going to have regrets about fucking Michigan over. It's like a badge of honor to those cucks.
The only fuckery that was more blatant was Pacquiao v Horn.
Re Carollo:
Regrets, he had a few, but too few to mention...
He did what he had to do, and saw it through, without exemption...
In other words, his incompetent, cheatin-ass crew sucked on that day, and ensured home cookin for the home team. Pure, incompetent bullshit.