East German Judge

January 9th, 2018 at 7:54 PM ^

field goal franklin may or may not agree with you....

"I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she's a D-I recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal," Franklin said Wednesday on Nashville's 104.5 FM The Zone, according to coachingsearch.com.

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Wolfman

January 9th, 2018 at 6:15 PM ^

with wolverine unis on Ga and that's how big a role the refs played. They were allowing some Golson like plays by Bama, two of which were shown cleanly in these clips here, then there were a couple nice, open palm slaps to the helmet that for some reason, officials decided to let slide as well. It did seem quite one-sided to boot. Officiating always goes both ways, except when it doesn't. For whatever reason.....

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LeCheezus

January 9th, 2018 at 6:17 PM ^

Strange how NOW people take note and do an unbiased look at how bad that crew is, but if M fans do it after the 2016 OSU game we're just whiners.

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Vigorous

January 9th, 2018 at 6:31 PM ^

While I was adamently against Alabama winning another 'ship, it felt weirdly good watching another team get shafted by the B1G refs. Other people feel our pain. From a Michigan fan to any Georgia fan who realistically will not be on these boards, I am sorry.

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Swayze Howell Sheen

January 9th, 2018 at 6:38 PM ^

One bad call on a replay, on the one play where the GA receiver caught like an 80 yard TD - he was clearly out of bounds.

Not his foot (which might have been) but earlier he clearly made contact with the Bama defender who was out of bounds, and thus is out of bounds too.

How did they miss that obvious call?
 

 

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ldevon1

January 9th, 2018 at 7:51 PM ^

Held Ball Out of Bounds ARTICLE 2. A ball in player possession is out of bounds when either the ball or any part of the ball carrier touches the ground or anything else that is out of bounds, or that is on or outside a boundary line (except another player or game official.)

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turtleboy

January 9th, 2018 at 6:57 PM ^

Forget pay the players, pay some damn refs. These part time officials are just garbage, deciding the financial windfalls of a multi billion dollar sports industry. The playoff alone brought in $600m for 3 games. Hank the hardware store manager should not be deciding these games in his spare time..

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DairyQueen

January 9th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^

they need to be:

A) retained year-round

B) spend the off-season defining, to the "T", what constitutes every, single, rule in the book. Remember "intent to deceive"? The entire intention of different formations are "to deceive"

C) learn what is and is not an offensive holding penalty

D) learn what pass interference is on rub routes

E) spend the off-season reviewing controversial calls and how to proceed in the future to prevent such failures (a la the aviation industry)

F) take freaking lie-detector tests so it can be proven that they hate the University of Michigan football team

G) promoted and demoted accordingly, i'm sorry but why on earth do we have referees who are so old? what other fields are so disproportionately old? (you can rack up 15-20 years of refereeing experience and be 35-40 years of age, there's no point other than just "well that's how we've always done it")

H) FINE these m********ers, you can fine (and bench/waive) players for misconduct, why not referees? If it wasn't such a buddy-buddy club, there would be many more people vying for these coveted positions. Pay them accordingly and people will flock to the job (hence why K-12 school-system in the US is complete trash, higher pay = higher competion)

A lot of people might think this is sort of ridiculous and impassioned, but it's so not. The BIG ALONE, signed a 2.64 billion dollar contract, about 1/2 billion a year, there's plenty of money to maintain the quality of the game. I'm not saying these refs are a**holes, it's just plain keeping up with the times. If the players have to work year-round, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the coaches go from maing 150K annually, to 2-6 million annually, then why can't the refs improve as well? If these grandpa's don't want to learn how to use computers, then FIND someone who will. They're out there.

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PapabearBlue

January 10th, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^

I seriously doubt there isn't corruption and "rigging" amongst the refereeing in this sport. There is in virtually every other aspect of every other sport/anything, that generates profit, on this planet. To assume there isn't in CFB, a multibillion dollar industry, is foolish.

Competent reffing is not in the best interest of the people interested in maintaining that status quo.

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DairyQueen

January 10th, 2018 at 2:36 AM ^

I would have thought that thr Roid Rages displayed by the Alabama football players (both fighting the coach, and slamming the head of the Georgia QB), would have been obvious enough that there are certain teams allowed to cheat, in the interest of "must-see" TV.

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jakerblue

January 9th, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^

Eh, I thought the only egregious one was the missed face mask. Watching live I was sure they were offsides on the punt. The false start was so far away from the ball on the line that’s a hard one to catch. The head shove should have been called but I think that one was whatever.

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charblue.

January 9th, 2018 at 7:43 PM ^

were allowed to officiate the National Championship game. And after witnessing his crew's work, I am certain millions of others feel the same way.

What a disgrace. Capron's easy-going style and lack of focus was evident early when he picked up a flag and then announced that a non-call had resulted in a first down on a play that because no penalty was enforced was simply third down. Then his crew proceeded to become sideline Nazis whose primary aim seemed to be making sure the sideline white stripe wasn't encroached for a nuetral zone penalty. 

Never mind that Capron kept warning without enforcing any violation for what appeared to simply be overexburerant players celebrating teammate plays. It was unclear because cameras never caught the alleged infractions that prompted the flags. And, of course. this crew, a mixed one from the Big Ten, made a choice that Alabama and its exalted coach would be the recipient of non-calls and obviously missed  and potentially game-changing personal fouls and or procedural violations. I mean, how else do you explain the discrepancy in the total failure see things only when Georgia players committed them?

Let's recap why we think Capron is unqualified to work a game of this magnitude. And it was because of a brutally one-side officiated game between Michigan and Ohio State in which Ohio State drew one call and Michigan was repeatedly called for things that were overlooked when the home team did them. This led to a sideline blowup by Jim Harbaugh who was not only flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and later fined, but this act was the motivating reason behind an offseason sideline behavior rule for NCAA coaches that was rarely if ever enforced, especially in games that involved opposing coaches of teams playing Michigan. 

Quietly, after fining Harbaugh $10k for his negative remarks concerning Capron's crew in the OSU game, the Big Ten decided to not allow Capron and his crew work any East Division conference games of meaning this year, and assigned him to one Michigan contest all season, a Saturday night game against Minnesota. That game was notable for one particular play in which a Minnesota Olineman was ejected for a post-play foul that then prompted Capron to also remove a Michigan defender for no apparent reason other than seeking to maintain game control. That apparent concern wasn't in evidence last night.

In fact, Capron's crew seemed to miss one special team's player on Alabama in particular whose behavior seemed out of control after being called for a penalty and then blowing up on the sideline, only to come back later and practically rip a Georgia player's helmet off with no call. This was in addition to allowing a post-play foul by an Alabama defender on Georgia's qb after a tackle.

Beyond that, there were the crew inconsistencies in calling holding or PI or facemask calls or just blowing the key play of the game, a third quarter blocked punt that was nullified by an alleged offside call that clearly hadn't occurred. These, of course, can always be chalked up to whatever serves as excuse-making for the horrid one-sidedness of Monday night. Both teams wore red, only one got the benefit of certain officiating.

And the assignment was apparently the result of an honor that was bestowed on Capron only because the Big Ten didn't have a team in the playoffs and hadn't worked the championship game last year. So, it was a backhanded way of giving the league a bone. And that turned out to be a bone-headed move because Capron and his crew sucked. And now everyone knows how Michigan fans felt after that crew screwed Michigan in one-sided calls against the Buckeyes. It was simply deja vu' on a national stage.

The only thing that really saved the poor officiating was Georgia's bewildering play-calling and defense down the stretch. But you never about these things because one thing always leads to another, in this case another Bama NC.

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JWG Wolverine

January 9th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^

I find this whole thing hilarious. Now they should understand that we’re not that crazy complaining about the officiating we get here. Too bad they still won’t.

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Supa Hot Fire

January 9th, 2018 at 9:45 PM ^

We've been saying this for 2 years now and people finally notice. How convenient. I found it deplorable how they gave all those sideline warnings but in the OSU game Harbaugh got a penalty immediately, for something similar if not less violating of the rule

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