September 7, 2008
A picture is worth a thousand words
Written by: David
Due to the huge volume of posts and articles on the internet regarding the legitimacy of the celebration call at the end of the game I will add my two cents by simply saying it was a good call on a really stupid rule.
Now for my opinion of the game as a whole. It was exactly as anyone would expect with a PAC-10 officiating crew, which can be well shown by a couple of pictures:
I’ve seen less holding in a BYU dorm room. I am well aware of the fact that calls get missed on every single play of any given game, but when it is as deliberate as some of those holds on Saturday someone needs to address the situation.
It would be a logistical nightmare initially, but why isn’t the NCAA the group that oversees officiating. Doesn’t it seem like a conflict of interest to anyone else that each conference is responsible for their own officials. At the very least an endeavor like the MWC and Big 12 are trying to workout would be beneficial. Regional officiating crews that don’t have direct conference ties would be more successful and would in large part alleviate any idea that crews are biased to their own conference. If there wasn’t some advantage to having your own officiating crews, why would the PAC-10 insist on using only their crews for non-conference games?
I screamed “holding!” at the tv about 3 times that last drive. Apparently the ref was too close and looking too directly at it to notice.
You know, sometimes if you stare at something long enough, you can convince yourself that it is different than it actually is. It could also just be in the PAC-10 version of the rulebook that you only call holding on a PAC-10 one in ten times. Oh wait, I don’t think they ever called holding so maybe they just deleted that rule from their books.
While holding isn’t in the Pac-10 rulebook, I’m glad that the unsportsmanlike conduct for excessive celebrating somehow made it into the Pac-10 rulebook. Something messed up about those 2 things.
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