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Lost In All This (Don Chaney DIDNT Fumble)

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Mikeiavelli said:
I would love to know if officials are ever really held accountable. I know there are rare cases when it's publicly released that officials have some form of punishment.

But what really goes on behind the curtain? What are the metrics of a successful official? How are these metrics measured? What consequences are there and how often are they doled out?

I feel like they are unaccountable and when that happens, in comes the God complex.
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I know in baseball there are strike/ball metrics vs the software that you see on TV. It’s why the MLB is looking in to implementing the robot strike zone. You have to be above a certain percentage and those numbers are made public. I don’t know what it would be for football but I know they have meetings and go over these situations so they have to have these metrics. If they were to be held accountable instantly like an after game press conference, they’d be more efficient and less willing to allow bias when it hurts their pocket.
 
Dont blame him in the least bit, but holy **** dude put two hands on the ball in that situation

And if refs were determined to ***** us they wouldnt have called that penalty when GT blocked our XP. Our special teams coordinator, outside of the Brashad Smith return, has been very underwhelming this year
 
Dude said:
Don Chaney didn't fumble. We won that game. Miami can't just sit back and take this. I know how it looks to other fan bases and I don't care. They have to start calling attention to ACC officiating and put these clowns under the microscope. Yeah, Mario should have called a kneel... but you know what, it shouldn't have mattered because Don Chaney didn't fumble. Clearly confirmed of replay. The refs got away with cheating these guys. Enough is enough.
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Yes.
 
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NJshoreCane said:
Yeah but the umpire (shown) couldn’t see it live :rolleyes:
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CDWright40 said:
You miss a split second in this angle because an official is 2 feet away staring directly at the play and got it wrong.
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Actually, the ump started to raise his hand to call the play dead, you know, the guy staring straight at Don 2 yards away. He then put it down quickly to let the play continue, and deferred to the sideline official, who, was half the width of the field away, and looking into Dons back and couldn't see the football in Dons hands to begin with.

Why the **** would the ump not take control and say he was down. He had the best look, he was going to in the first place.
 
NC_Canes_11 said:
Is there a reason Rad and the school isn’t publicly ripping the ACC and demanding they change the final score just like Duke did after “The Return”?

Or are they just too embarrassed to stand in front of people and talk about this game?
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The latter. If it wasn’t for the outrageous stupidity of Mario it would’ve never gotten to that fumble call. If Rad starts complaining about that call we’d get clowned even more than we are now.
 
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It's wild that Colbie Young's long TD got overturned and he was ruled down at the 4 - and Colbie's knee hitting the ground was less clear than Chaney's elbow hitting the ground before the ball was stripped. A truly awful call - ref should be punished by the ACC in some way.
 
WanderFranco said:
You mean it might be right that the refs were hoping we wouldn’t take the obvious knee so they could change the game? That makes sense to you?
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That's not what he said. It's them seizing any opportunity they they were given to ***** us. They weren't hoping that we wouldn't kneel. That's ridiculous. However when Chaney fumbled after his elbow hitting the ground they were never going to overturn it.

Going back to your first response. It's not a matter of them blatantly taking the win from us. What it is however is an officiating crew who used blatantly terrible calls at key junctures of the game in order to influence a potential outcome. They as refs are in a position where they have the power to take TDs off the board and award free first downs for the most tricky tacky and laughable things you can think of.

This is not limited to the refs. The announcers also make a conscious effort to influence the viewing public. Go rewatch the Texas ATM game and listen to the commentary by Joe Tessitore. This guy went as far as saying that looking at the replay of Wes Bissainthe hitting Weigman on the 4th down TD pass "gave him PTSD". He would also go on to say that a clean pass breakup by one of our DBs that was not called was "a hit on a clearly defenseless player as well as lobbying for a targeting penalty on James Williams that clearly was not targeting and was overturned by the SEC officials. Tessitore is a vile anti UM propaganda spewing toolbag who is sadly one of many. Too many.
 
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