Refs performance last Saturday
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:51 am
Was it just me or was last Saturday's game a miserable day by the zebras?
"Scratch-your-head" highlights:
The first snap over the punters head, one of SFA's protection guys pulls a Bobcat defender to the ground with no other players within 5 yards; NO CALL.
On a punt near the North Goal line, the SFA punter shanks a kick that is caught about 5-6 yards out of bounds by an SFA player at the Cats 40. Obviously, the ball should be placed further upfield, but the ref behind the punter (whose job it is to line up with the deep ref to estimate where the ball crossed the sideline) just trots up the field and doesn't even ATTEMPT to help out the ref running up the sideline. Where do they spot the ball? Of course, at the Bobcat 40.
Murray catches a big 3rd and long pass for a first down, stands up, signals first down, and tosses the ball toward the nearest ref. UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT?? Are you kidding me?
The very next play, an SFA defender throws Bass (I think) for a big loss, jumps up and starts celebrating. NO CALL. Later in the game, 3rd quarter, SFA picks up a first down near our 20 or so and one of their players is jumping up & down, signalling that they got the first. NO CALL. (My point here is that NONE of these last 3 plays should have drawn a flag, but once the "F" ref called the first one, aren't they obligated to call the others?)
Another thing I noticed was that the refs were slow to blow their whistles and it led directly to Personal Foul call on us in 3rd quarter. SFA threw a screen pass and the back bobbled it and booted it a few times; it was OBVIOUSLY incomplete but the refs never blew the whistle, they let him stumble forward trying to pick up the ball for a good couple of seconds. A couple of our D players finally knock him down just as one ref finally whistles & signals incomplete, and of course, they call us for the personal.
On a kickoff, the SFA receiver lets the ball sail over his head & into the endzone. Before the ball actually leaves the field of play, the refs are blowing their whistles & signalling touchback. The ball did eventually CRAWL about a foot past the endline but the refs were blowing it dead LONG before it actually went out of bounds. Isn't the ball LIVE on a kickoff until it leaves the field? If that ball stops one foot shorter, isn't it live for both teams to recover?
Finally, on Grenfell's INT, the replay CLEARLY showed a facemask as he was tackled on the sideline & there was a ref about 5 feet away; NO CALL.
Maybe I shouldn't gripe so much about a game we won by 36 points but my point is what happens when these clowns are calling a CLOSE Big Sky game? I really thought these guys did a lousy job Saturday and it scares me to think of them in Cheney or back for Cat/Griz...
"Scratch-your-head" highlights:
The first snap over the punters head, one of SFA's protection guys pulls a Bobcat defender to the ground with no other players within 5 yards; NO CALL.
On a punt near the North Goal line, the SFA punter shanks a kick that is caught about 5-6 yards out of bounds by an SFA player at the Cats 40. Obviously, the ball should be placed further upfield, but the ref behind the punter (whose job it is to line up with the deep ref to estimate where the ball crossed the sideline) just trots up the field and doesn't even ATTEMPT to help out the ref running up the sideline. Where do they spot the ball? Of course, at the Bobcat 40.
Murray catches a big 3rd and long pass for a first down, stands up, signals first down, and tosses the ball toward the nearest ref. UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT?? Are you kidding me?
The very next play, an SFA defender throws Bass (I think) for a big loss, jumps up and starts celebrating. NO CALL. Later in the game, 3rd quarter, SFA picks up a first down near our 20 or so and one of their players is jumping up & down, signalling that they got the first. NO CALL. (My point here is that NONE of these last 3 plays should have drawn a flag, but once the "F" ref called the first one, aren't they obligated to call the others?)
Another thing I noticed was that the refs were slow to blow their whistles and it led directly to Personal Foul call on us in 3rd quarter. SFA threw a screen pass and the back bobbled it and booted it a few times; it was OBVIOUSLY incomplete but the refs never blew the whistle, they let him stumble forward trying to pick up the ball for a good couple of seconds. A couple of our D players finally knock him down just as one ref finally whistles & signals incomplete, and of course, they call us for the personal.
On a kickoff, the SFA receiver lets the ball sail over his head & into the endzone. Before the ball actually leaves the field of play, the refs are blowing their whistles & signalling touchback. The ball did eventually CRAWL about a foot past the endline but the refs were blowing it dead LONG before it actually went out of bounds. Isn't the ball LIVE on a kickoff until it leaves the field? If that ball stops one foot shorter, isn't it live for both teams to recover?
Finally, on Grenfell's INT, the replay CLEARLY showed a facemask as he was tackled on the sideline & there was a ref about 5 feet away; NO CALL.
Maybe I shouldn't gripe so much about a game we won by 36 points but my point is what happens when these clowns are calling a CLOSE Big Sky game? I really thought these guys did a lousy job Saturday and it scares me to think of them in Cheney or back for Cat/Griz...
