I can't imagine these guys are that incompetent. I think they are corrupt. The only thing I can complement these officials on is how bold they are at making this so obvious that they are corrupt. Or, how much better they have become at changing the outcome of the game. These guys should be terminated from officiating.
This in from the Big 12, expected this and wasn't disappointed. Big 12 exonerates officiating crew | Hookem.com
"I’ve never seen one perfectly officiated, and I’m not expecting to do so.” Of course you haven't, you arrogant piece of ****, and you won't as long as you keep looking for officials at dental conventions and rejects from the BigSky conference. We will be stuck with this guy until Bowlsby is fired and someone with a backbone replaces him.
True, NCAA is a gutless group of cretins. They have no authority, no subpoena power, and simply try to bully people. They really are fun to have in your office asking questions. Understand that the NCAA rarely visits; they normally hire private investigators to do it. Again, with no power to do anything. Classic example was when the Aggies got put on probation over Murray getting paid to clean printing presses at Heritage Publishing over on Director's Row in Dallas. The investigators made multiple trips to the site. Murray was paid to "clean printing presses", but supposedly never showed up to work, yet got a paycheck. In all their multiple visits, each time they walked down that 200+ foot hallway, past multiple doors into the warehouse. NEVER ONCE did they look into the warehouse. If they had, they would have discovered that Dockery contracted out all his printing. HE DIDN"T OWN ANY PRINTING PRESSES!
Has anyone investigated the background of the refs? College? Profession? Home town? Business relationships? Political positions? Facebook? Other games refereed? Frequency of clearly erroneous calls? Number of years refereeing? Quotes in media? Reports by people about statements made by them? Etc. It could be revealing about attitudes and reasons for bias against UT, against this UT coach, etc.? It should be clear that the really bad calls and their number went beyond incompetence.
The individual(s) responsible for flying around the banner before the Rice game should consider replacing 'Patterson' with 'Walt Anderson' and fly it around this Saturday. Because Walt Anderson must go. Speaking of the AD.... To my knowledge, Mike Perrin has stayed mum about the whole referee controversy. I can understand why Charlie has more or less deflected questions on the topic, which could possibly mean that his AD is handling the situation and we just not know about it. I, for one, would love it if Perrin went public with his disgust and his intention to address the situation with the powers at be. Even if it accomplishes nothing, it would definitely win some fan loyalty. It's hard to imagine Patterson EVER doing anything like that. Thoughts?
Perrin trained under DKR and DKR never whined about officiating. Also, the head of officials says he reviewed every play and only had a couple of issues. So, you're not just taking on an officiating crew, you'd be taking on ALL Big 12 refs and that can only bite you in the butt.
DKR never HAD TO whine about officiating. And, he wouldn't be "taking on ALL Big 12 refs", just their douchebag supervisor. What do the other crews have to do with it??
As mentioned in an earlier post, DKR used the blackball rule of the old Southwest Conference to eliminate bad officials, for the most part. The ones chosen couldn't work Texas games. So they never got the chance to make bad calls after the first few times.
Here is running video during the flags The Craig Way call on the Poona and Strong flags begins ~ 8:20
So much to choose from, so maybe this was mentioned above: at 4 minute mark of 1st Qtr., re alleged holding on the OSU 35 yd. line by #74 Doyle, the ref throwing the yellow hankie throws it at the OSU 22 where he was running down the far sideline intently watching Heard's run and not the line of scrimmage back at the 35 at all. Maybe ref got the wrong number. Perplexing. Like so much else.
On the JW Walsh fumble, the line judge runs up to the pile and almost immediately makes the ruling that it is OSU ball. I don't see how he had a clear view inside the pile. It also looks like it is the same douchebag that walked into Charlie and flagged him.
I have no idea but it is the simplest explanation. I'd rather it not be the case but it's not very believable that this many coincidences that were this bizarre and this inexplicable would all happen in the same game, all hurt the same team (usually on their most crucial plays of the game), by a crew that consistently flags that team double what anyone else does.
I'm still mad about these calls we got against Oklahoma State. I just hope we don't see these officials again for the rest of the season.
