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Worst Call of All Time?

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billmac91

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Maybe this does not deserve its' own thread, but my God...

At least on the Jake Locker TD celebration, the toss over the shoulder could maybe be considered excessive.

However, the overturned catch in the Florida vs. Miami game was flat out cheating. The SEC booth officials cheated on National TV.

Close game, 3rd and 10 from the UF 40, Tim Tebow throws a pass that is incomplete on the sidelines.

1. The ball was never caught. The UF player never once had possesion of it. He was bobbling it in the air, and clearly had no control of it as the ball rolled down the sidelines after he came to the ground.

2. His elbow wasn't definitively in-bounds. But even if you wanted to give the replay officials the benefit of the doubt on the elbow being in-bounds, it's irrelevant b/c the receiver clearly had ZERO control of the ball.

UF is the better team, but this is proof, in out of conference games the replay officials should be from an outside conference. Miami was in the game until these guys ripped it from them.
 
I don't want to be a dick but I think this may be the wrong section to post in? Maybe college football would be a better spot to post it?

Anyways, I know i'll be in the extreme minority here when I say this but..... The way I see it is yes it's not a great call because the refs ultimately decided the game, but I think it wasn't a bad call either. The guy threw the football really high into the air and I know he was excited but can't that be means for delay of game which would end up resulting in a personal foul?

Lets say its 4th and 15 and Locker runs for a 18 yard gain and a first down to midfield. Locker is so pumped up he throws the ball in the air. Would that not be excessive celebration???? Again, the wrong call IMO but not as bad as everyone thinks.
 
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The crackdown on excessive celebrations this year is ridiculous. Every time I've seen it called has been ridiculous. From the call in the South Carolina game last week for the player doing push ups at the end of the quarter for dropping an INT to the Washington game. It's a terrible rule.

The Florida replay was a terribly blown call. I don't know that it would have changed the ultimate outcome of the game, but it was certainly a momentum changer. There are always a few calls like this every year in non conference games where the home conference officials call in favor of their teams. It's a little ridiculous.
 
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billmac91;1251694; said:
Maybe this does not deserve its' own thread, but my God...

At least on the Jake Locker TD celebration, the toss over the shoulder could maybe be considered excessive.

However, the overturned catch in the Florida vs. Miami game was flat out cheating. The SEC booth officials cheated on National TV.

Close game, 3rd and 10 from the UF 40, Tim Tebow throws a pass that is incomplete on the sidelines.

1. The ball was never caught. The UF player never once had possesion of it. He was bobbling it in the air, and clearly had no control of it as the ball rolled down the sidelines after he came to the ground.

2. His elbow wasn't definitively in-bounds. But even if you wanted to give the replay officials the benefit of the doubt on the elbow being in-bounds, it's irrelevant b/c the receiver clearly had ZERO control of the ball.

UF is the better team, but this is proof, in out of conference games the replay officials should be from an outside conference. Miami was in the game until these guys ripped it from them.
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Don't underestimate the BE officials. We saw last year in the Pitt/WVU game that they will do anything to help the conferences highest ranked team. Well they were at it again in the USF vs UCF game.

USF is the last hope the BE has for a shred of national respect and the refs made sure UCF didn't win that game. The block in the back call that negated a pick 6 for UCF was just criminal.
 
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billmac91;1251694; said:
Miami was in the game until these guys ripped it from them.
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Couldn't agree with you more here.

UMiami played a hell of a game up to that point, I don't think they would have won, but it would not have looked as bad as it did at the end.

And like you said, the WR didn't have possesion as he went OB, you have to control the ball all the way down. Same thing happened to Hartline last week, would have been a TD catch, but he dropped it as he hit the ground. INCOMPLETE PASS.

On another note, the line judge was RIGHT THERE. Why upstage him and overturn the call on inconclusive evidence? Which obviously the booth thought was conclusive enough, but I disagree.

This was a complete momentum change in this game. I hate it for the UMiami players.
 
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SEC Officials? Corrupt? Who Knew?!

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jmorbitz;1251725; said:
Couldn't agree with you more here.

UMiami played a hell of a game up to that point, I don't think they would have won, but it would not have looked as bad as it did at the end.

And like you said, the WR didn't have possesion as he went OB, you have to control the ball all the way down. Same thing happened to Hartline last week, would have been a TD catch, but he dropped it as he hit the ground. INCOMPLETE PASS.

On another note, the line judge was RIGHT THERE. Why upstage him and overturn the call on inconclusive evidence? Which obviously the booth thought was conclusive enough, but I disagree.

This was a complete momentum change in this game. I hate it for the UMiami players.
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SEC Replay booth. Unbelievable. I think there should be some outrage in the college football community over this, but I doubt we'll see it. There was zero reason to overturn the call on the field, and the replay CONCLUSIVELY showed the refs on the field had the correct call.

It's the worst college refeering injustice I think I've ever seen. As Jax, pointed out, the WVU-Pitt game last year was beyond terrible, but this call takes the cake for me. It just reeked of a conference taking care of one of its own.
 
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LoKyBuckeye;1251738; said:
Terry Porter was in the replay booth for the Gators, :paranoid:
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Until that idiot in Indianapolis gets off his ass and shoves the Academics (the people, not the actual teaching of the students) out and decides that his main money-making sports need PROFESSIONAL officiating, this type of crap will continue.

I'm going to assume that most of the officials are good citizens and doing their best and whatnot, but the NFL has by far the best officiating of any major pro sports league and even they screw them up from time to time.

However every season we are subjected to both the subjective (the prissy ass rule aside, those refs had an itchy trigger finger on Locker) to the outright WRONG (the OB/incomplete overturn in the Miami/FLA).....

It has to change or eventually it'll risk both the objectivity and the PERCEPTION of objectivity within these sports....
 
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