OSU WR coach Brian Hartline made a post complaining about the refs just now

Submitted by jbrandimore on November 6th, 2021 at 7:59 PM

Is this allowed?

And if it’s allowed why don’t we ever do it?

Maybe that’s a reason OSU gets so many calls against us?

Bo Harbaugh

November 6th, 2021 at 8:03 PM ^

OSU is all in on football from the President to the AD to the coaches to assistant coaches to the player.

Harbaugh gets left on an island when he bitches about officiating, like after the 2016 OSU robbery.

UM muzzled Harbaugh and our AD Manuel is a cuck that bows to his B1G overlords so long as the paychecks keep coming in.

MadMatt

November 6th, 2021 at 9:10 PM ^

Point of reference: the c-word is both political and about as offensive as the n-word, or the other c-word referring to women. Please find another term (as profane as you like) to express your opinion.

BTW, I totally agree with you about the Univ and the AD leaving Harbaugh out to dry when he calls out atrocious officiating.

mGrowOld

November 7th, 2021 at 12:43 AM ^

A-fucking-men.

Been saying same for years.  Warde has to grow a pair and stick up for Jimmy.  The problem tho is if he complains publicly about the weekly screw job M gets he'll get seated near the back at the next B1G AD cocktail party and that is simply too much to ask one man to endure.

mGrowOld

November 7th, 2021 at 12:54 AM ^

A-fucking-men.

Been saying same for years.  Warde has to grow a pair and stick up for Jimmy.  The problem tho is if he complains publicly about the weekly screw job M gets he'll get seated near the back at the next B1G AD cocktail party and that is simply too much to ask one man to endure.

long4wind

November 7th, 2021 at 1:40 AM ^

I think this replay shows it is not a catch. Notice in the key frame that the foot is in bounds and the ball is in his left hand. The right hand is not touching the call. Then as he lands on the ground, the ball slithers out of his left hand and ends up in his right hand. Failure to maintain control of the football equals no catch.

andrewgr

November 7th, 2021 at 12:26 AM ^

You're wrong.

The reason replay allowed the incomplete call to stand is because using an entirely different camera angle, the receiver's right hand came off the ball for a moment, and it wasn't clear if the ball was securely grasped using just the left hand alone.  

The foot was clearly in bounds at the time the receiver initially caught the ball, from every angle.

The call was not confirmed by replay, it was just allowed to stand.  That means that had it been called complete on the field, that would have been allowed to stand, too.

But I don't think it was worth complaining about, yet alone tweeting about.  He should be spending his time working with Wilson and Day figuring out why the suddenly can't score touchdowns inside the redzone.

Honker Burger

November 6th, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^

Thanks for the update from OSU's WR coach. 

There was a review last week that shouldn't have been overturned. It cost us 4 points. Bad calls happen and it sucks.

Harbaugh teams consistently settle for FGs and don't have the killer instinct in important games, for the last 7 seasons. That's more important than the refs. 

Honker Burger

November 6th, 2021 at 9:23 PM ^

Maybe I'd get more upvotes if I complained about officiating, instead of the coaching staff, which has had the same mistakes for 7 seasons. 

There were bad calls last week. It happens every week. College officiating is not good. Other teams seem to find a way to win. Purdue has more big wins this season than Harbaugh has in 7 years. 

MGoBlue96

November 7th, 2021 at 1:03 AM ^

You are on crack of you think the officials only swung the game 4 points last week. Yeah Purdue beat MSU today and guess what they pretty much played the same game UM did including settling for field goals on their final two red zone possessions but the difference was they didn't get boned by the officials.

kehnonymous

November 6th, 2021 at 9:30 PM ^

Anyways….

If we were somehow to win vs aOSU, I would almost want to win on a controversial call instead of a three-score carpetbombing just because the latter would provoke so much more rage from them.

(Plus, us getting favourable calls against them is more improbable then us simply blowing them away, right?)

andrewgr

November 7th, 2021 at 12:35 AM ^

There have been a couple of games in which referees with known or probable rooting interests for the Buckeyes have made borderline or bad calls that benefited Ohio State.  That's unacceptable, and the Big10 needs to do better about ensuring impartial refs-- ideally, I'd like to see all refs who have no affiliation with any Big10 teams.

That being said, the idea that there is some vast conspiracy and that UM is routinely screwed by officiating is totally false and should be beneath Wolverine fans' dignity to suggest.  If I needed to choose one single game from the OSU/UM series as an exemplar of egregiously wrong, consistently unfair calls and no-calls against one of the teams, I'd look no further than the 2018 game, in which the officials appeared to do everything in their power to help Michigan won.  No one talks about it because OSU won, but if they had lost, there would be a hundred videos on Youtube containing highlights of how pro-UM the referees were that day.

Eng1980

November 7th, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^

Bad calls in favor of the losing team don't prove that refs aren't biased. it may be that they are saying let's even the score in a way that doesn't matter.  The statement above is incomplete like saying the refs aren't biased because they called the same number of penalties on both teams (while one team is clearly committing more violations.)