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Ibis4life

Ibis4life

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I've been hearing about it all day from Miami haters, saying it clearly wasn't a fumble. I think this screenshot is pretty clear.

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It was clearly a fumble. People acting like they've never seen a ball move around before it comes out.
 
The commentators were full of crap, it was clearly coming out before he was down, hence why the refs made the right call, which may have been our only right call.
 
if you focus on the elbow of the wisconsin player the nose of the football moves before any bodypart is down. I was surprised the commentator was so adamant that it was a bad call.
 
Griese was given his last name because he likes his ******* buttered. The announcers couldn't have been more in the tank for Wisconsin. It wasn't that controversial, the only thing that made me nervous was that I think he was ruled down on the field and I wasn't sure there was enough conclusive evidence to overturn (call is "ruling on the field stands as called.")
 
Griese is still butthurt that Erickson and Miami didn't offer him 25 years ago.

Same reason Corso hates Miami. The old fart was a Miami kid and he didn't get an offer from UM - and that was well over 60 years ago.
 
Wasn't Griese a Miami Columbus kid? Thought he played for Michigan when we didn't offer and that is what started his pro-Big 10 mentality
 
Ibis4life said:
I've been hearing about it all day from Miami haters, saying it clearly wasn't a fumble. I think this screenshot is pretty clear.

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Terrible call. That screen shot doesn't show anything except the left arm tightly grasping the football. Even the people insisting it was a correct call had the ball dislodged fractions before the arm hit the ground, not at the point of that screen shot.

Replay has reached such absurdity that any normal swinging of the arm is viewed as the ball moving and starting to come out. The booth referee was correct when he immediately stated there was plenty of evidence toward a quick confirmation of the original call. Everyone I spoke to today thought the call was ridiculous.
 
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I muted the announcers after they didn't know why Richt was mad on the non holding call. I'm amazed at how dumb someone could be but it's the same network that demoted Musberger and let Tirico and Mcdonagh leave with no replacement in sight. They could hire a monkey to do Steve Levy's job.
 
I thought it was a fumble but was surprised they overturned the call on the field and Richt going off on the ref was the best part of the game, long over due
 
Best part is it's not like the call had any effect on the game, nothing came of it so who cares, whereas the holding on both our D-line and WR did have a negative effect on us. I was speaking to Wisky fan who said the no calls on Wisconsin "evened out" the bad fumble cal???
 
Disagree, Quatro. That fumble ended a strong opening drive for Wisky that looked like it was end zone bound.

Fumble call coulda gone either way. If that was Homer running with it, we'd all have been screaming "his knee was DOWN, you idiots."
 
There's a reason ESPN is failing in every sense of the word from top to bottom. The announcers and the type of game they call are a symptom, not the disease itself.
 
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It was not as close as you guys think. It was clearly a fumble.

For those they say it’s NOT a fumble, look at the gap between the tip of the ball & his arm. The ball was clearly coming out.


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30 years ago, it's a fumble.
15 years ago, it's not a fumble.
In today's game, it's a fumble.
 
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