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Game Thread Sugar Bowl: tOSU vs Arkansas, Tue, Jan 4th, 8:30 ET ESPN

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BuckeyeNation27;1850324; said:
if the player had been driven back into the endzone by a yard or less, then broke free on his own, I believe the rule about disengaging takes place and in that case the call would have been correct. the fact that Boom got out to the 2 and was then pushed back 3 yards into the endzone should have stopped forward progress at some point......preferably where the damn ref on the far sideline came walking out with his arm up signifying that's where we should have had the ball.
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I thought that was a brilliant play by Leon. I kind of felt like he realized boom was in the endzone and just let him go, knowing he would try to fight for extra yardage.
 
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You know the fact that ESPiN made a point, and are STILL making the point, that the 'suspended players' were basically what won Ohio State the game. They even made a graphic about it, like really? That's all you can talk about after a game like that? Great comeback, questionable referees, Pryor looking nothing short of great, and that's all you talk about? ESPN is an absolute joke.
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1850368; said:
You know the fact that ESPiN made a point, and are STILL making the point, that the 'suspended players' were basically what won Ohio State the game. They even made a graphic about it, like really? That's all you can talk about after a game like that? Great comeback, questionable referees, Pryor looking nothing short of great, and that's all you talk about? ESPN is an absolute joke.
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Believe it or not, Craig James is the only one who I heard say that the Buckeyes could have won (he said it would have been tough) without them. He also said he was wrong to have said they should have been sat by JT.
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1850368; said:
You know the fact that ESPiN made a point, and are STILL making the point, that the 'suspended players' were basically what won Ohio State the game. They even made a graphic about it, like really? That's all you can talk about after a game like that? Great comeback, questionable referees, Pryor looking nothing short of great, and that's all you talk about? ESPN is an absolute joke.
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If Ryan Mallet, Kniles Davis, and DJ Williams had this happen, and they won, you can bet they wouldn't mention that.

It is uncanny that almost a no name out of the suspensions, basically won the game for us though.
 
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Saw31;1850339; said:
Yeah, I don't get this. "Disengaged" is not what I saw. He got stood up and help came to push him backwards. Until someone comes up with a good explanation, that was a bull[Mark May] call that an average peewee ref would have gotten right.
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I totally agree. Boom got stood up at about the 2 1/2 yard line by one Arkansas defender, who made a great play and literally pushed Boom all the way back into the endzone, where three other Hogs jumped on him. Now, if you watch it really closely, the first Arkansas player that knocked him back goes to the ground in the endzone, and at that moment, for a split second, Boom is moving sideways away from him, but totally off-balanced and about to go down himself. At that moment, the other Arkansas players jump on him and finish the job. They can assert the disengagement rule all they want due to that split second in which the initial defender went down before Boom, but the reality is that I've been watching college football all my life and have never seen a play like that called a safety. It's forward progress to the spot of initial impact. This isn't a situation where the runner breaks free after being knocked back and starts moving forward again. Ridiculous.
 
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BB73;1850140; said:
Was there a mention of the fact that tOSU tied the record for most BCS Bowl wins all time? (6, a record by itself if deducting 1 vacated win by USC). Nope, no mention of that historic achievement.

But the graphic showing the game stats had a blurb that said:

"Ohio State
3-6 all-time in BCS bowl games"

If that was an honest mistake, it should have been caught. But everybody in Bristol has been bashing tOSU for so long, it probably didn't look wrong to anybody.

Screw you, ESPN. Your agenda is obvious. Not pointing out a record 6th BCS Bowl win is a ridiculous omission from the recap of the game. Showing an inaccurate graphic is pathetic, even if it was only due to ineptitude.
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"Stat Boy" (who points out all the errors on PTI) must be off today.

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Saw31;1850357; said:
Oh yeah. I'm just baffled how that could ever be called a safety. To me it just seems like it was such a fundamental [censored] up of the rules.
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I talked a bit about it a few pages back, but as others have said, the claim seemed to be that his forward progress was regained when he broke off the tackle. However, that is codswallop, as not only did the Arky defender seem to let him go in the end zone, but Boom also failed to advance any further at that point. Then there was the whole problem that he was pushed back three yards into the endzone, at which point the damned whistle should have been blown...

You are not mistaken, it was an epic fuck up of the rules. I believe that, after it happened, I was quoted as stating (shouting?) that I would never watch college football again if it stood as called, and that (I shit you not) even my peewee football referees knew what forward fucking progress was. So I guess this is goodbye BP. :lol:
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1850368; said:
You know the fact that ESPiN made a point, and are STILL making the point, that the 'suspended players' were basically what won Ohio State the game. They even made a graphic about it, like really? That's all you can talk about after a game like that? Great comeback, questionable referees, Pryor looking nothing short of great, and that's all you talk about? ESPN is an absolute joke.
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It's not like Ohio State is the only place suspensions (or firings) occur:

ESPN acknowledged Monday that it yanked one of its announcers, Ron Franklin, from covering the Fiesta Bowl college football game Saturday, reportedly after Franklin made belittling comments to sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards.

ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds was fired in 2006 after being accused of harassment by a female employee.

Steve Phillips, another ESPN baseball analyst, lost his job in 2009 as a result of an affair with a much-younger production assistant who disclosed the relationship to Phillips's wife after he sought to break it off. In 2007, a makeup artist working on the since-canceled show "Cold Pizza" sued the program's co-hosts, alleging they groped and harassed her.

ESPN Suspends Announcer Bob Griese For Racist Remark he Made About NASCAR Driver Juan Pablo Montoya.

Brian Kinchen, a former pro player-turned-ESPN announcer, was benched from the network for what a corporate VP called his "inappropriate" use of the word "gay" on the air.

Dana Jacobson, co-host of the ?ESPN First Take? morning show, was disciplined by her employer after an expletive-laden speech. The Chicago Tribune reported she was suspended one week.

Last year, former Washington Post sports columnist Tony Kornheiser, co-star of the popular ESPN show "Pardon the Interruption," was suspended for critical comments he made on his local radio program about "SportsCenter" host Hannah Storm's clothes.

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