Bad example, but Dooley didn’t care who he offended. He knew his way up the ladder was to make Tech better. We need a few people like that.
Bad example, but Dooley didn’t care who he offended. He knew his way up the ladder was to make Tech better. We need a few people like that.
At least I've never seen a C-USA referee call "Personal foul, running into the kicker" like the MAC female white hat just did in the WMU-Akron game. The correct call was actually just running into the kicker, so the MAC officiating coordinator still has some work to do.
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Quote Originally Posted by BhadDawg View Post
Whew!....Glad I stopped in on this thread, everything is clear as MUD now!
seriously though, do any of us have any idea if any complaints are ever made to the CUSA office or which ever groups of refs it may involve? I wish someone on here who has a very serious understanding of the X's & O's and rules would compile a list of the obvious no calls for TECH and UAB. I would love to see something like that presented to Holtz and the AD and for them to give an explanation as to why or why didn't they make a complaint.
I want teams to be able to play, there could be a call almost every play, no one wants to see that, but let's be reasonable. Until someone proves different to me, I will believe Skip and Tommy are both P0$$ies when it comes to taking up for our team. When someone complains it is not always "sour grapes", complaints are very legitimate sometimes, have the reputation of a University that does not put up with BS and stand your ground. I think the call on the last play when UAB rushed the field should have been made, if UAB were beating us by 20 with 3 seconds left, that would have been a good no call. The rule violation by UAB was a game changing decision since we were only third down and refs could have made the call, but they did not. Our fan-base, university, and Ruston will suffer because of this no call, someone needs to be held accountable!
Just getting the back to the board today, has my time expired to respond to a post? But c'mon stodg, read my post!
first sentence I made it clear I was asking if anyone knew if anyone made complaints!
Yes, the refs do make that choice and are the parties held accountable, Do I blame Holtz, that depends. Can you show me where he stood up for our team and possibly brought it to conference USA's attention?
When people/employees/officials are not held accountable they tend to be lax in the task at hand sometimes, that is just human nature. I gave my opinion that Skip and Tmac do not pursue those kinds of things and you can call that an assumption if you want. Check my first paragraph, I mentioned twice that I had no idea if anyone was complaining or standing up for the team, that is what I want to know! Do you Know?
Well, I will say that even if they do have a conversation with the CUSA offices, we may or may not ever know that it happens.
The crew that worked our UAB game worked the North Texas - UTSA game this weekend. The same official that flagged James Jackson for the ticky tack personal foul where the UAB player never even went down flagged a North Texas player for what looked like the same thing - a ticky tack personal foul penalty.
When the crew huddled to discuss the penalty, the White Hat asked him three times if he was sure. There was then a longer discussion by the crew and the flagged was picked up. What he called on James Jackson could be called on half or more plays in any given game. Unfortunately it was called on Jackson, and in a game that was tied at 16 it set up UAB with great field position that led to what turned out to be the winning touchdown.
I suspect this CUSA crew watched some film this week, probably either Friday night or Saturday morning. The White Hat is likely sending this particular official a message that he needs to let that type of call go. One game too late for Tech!
My guess is that either Ken Antee or Jonathan Noli will be the white hat tomorrow night. Those are the only two of the seven referees who have worked C-USA conference games so far this year that have not worked either a Tech or USM game.
Rodney Burnette who worked the Tech at WKU game worked tonight's WKU at ODU game. Steve LaMantia who worked the North Texas at USM game worked the Marshall at Middle Tennessee game tonight.
That leaves Antee, Noli, Jay Edwards (worked the UTEP at USM game last week), Justin Elliott (worked the Tech at UAB game two weeks ago), and Daniel Gautreaux (worked the USM at UTSA game two weeks ago).