I didn't think there could possibly be worse officials than the ACC officials we had to deal with all season but I was praying for the ACC officials to show up at halftime last night. Those referees should be ashamed of themselves. And MR was right to take that penalty for dressing down (and probably making contact with) the officials. At some point, these referees need to act like professionals and actually do their jobs. Officiating is not the reason we lost last night but man it would have been nice to actually have competent officials at the game.
Officiating most certainly did cost us this game. Just give me two plays back that there were blatant no calls and despite Malik handing them the game on a silver platter we would have won. The first was the blatant hold that MR got a penalty on and put them on the 5 yard line. They score a field goal and we get atleast four points back. Then the cager hold that wasn’t called gives us at the least another three points(with most teams guaranteed but our kicker missed like a 25 yard field goal).
I’m just saying we can’t win having no calls, bad special teams play, and horrendous qb play unless the turnover chain comes out more then four times. This defense hid some very frustrating flaws in this team all year that should be fixed with a qb, depth, and hope Bubba Baxa is as good as his name sounds. Honestly feel we are very lucky that it seems to be an issue of missing a coupe pieces then coaching. Anyone who doesn’t see progress and a team on the verge of regular national championship aspirations year in and year out is blind as a bat.
