crooked refs

[tony]

I'm sad teh Bison put themselves in the position to have an official able to decide the outcome of the game...

Exactly. When you have second and two and a chance to put them away... put them away.

[Bison"FANatic"]

Well it just isn't us that thought we were screwed. I took a look at the UNI, SDSU, Montana st and even the Sioux board think we were bent over with out lube by the replays. It is what it is and we should not have been in the position in the first place but if your going to have replay get it right. This has to sting for the guys.

Sounds like a good motivating tool for our guys next year. A big pic in the weight room of Brock having the ball on the ground with a caption underneath:

DON'T EVER AGAIN PUT THE REFS IN POSITION TO DECIDE THE GAME DECIDE IT YOURSELF!!!!!! GET STRONGER GET FASTER WORK HARDER

[bisoneer]

Yea they blew the calls but we still should have put it in the bag when we had the chances...

[Tatanka]

Well it just isn't us that thought we were screwed. I took a look at the UNI, SDSU, Montana st and even the Sioux board think we were bent over with out lube by the replays. It is what it is and we should not have been in the position in the first place but if your going to have replay get it right. This has to sting for the guys.

Sounds like a good motivating tool for our guys next year. A big pic in the weight room of Brock having the ball on the ground with a caption underneath:

DON'T EVER AGAIN PUT THE REFS IN POSITION TO DECIDE THE GAME DECIDE IT YOURSELF!!!!!! GET STRONGER GET FASTER WORK HARDER

Don't think for a second that that message isn't already seared onto their collective consciousness.

[WYOBISONMAN]

I think it was a bad call.....no doubt to me that Jensen was down and the ground caused the fumble.............BUT........the Bison didn't put it away and let EWU get in a position where a call could make the difference. When that happens......you are gonna loose some games. The Bison did not get it done.

But......all in all........this season was much, MUCH better than I expected. Great job by those Bison players!

[NDSUstudent]

Well it just isn't us that thought we were screwed. I took a look at the UNI, SDSU, Montana st and even the Sioux board think we were bent over with out lube by the replays. It is what it is and we should not have been in the position in the first place but if your going to have replay get it right. This has to sting for the guys.

Sounds like a good motivating tool for our guys next year. A big pic in the weight room of Brock having the ball on the ground with a caption underneath:

DON'T EVER AGAIN PUT THE REFS IN POSITION TO DECIDE THE GAME DECIDE IT YOURSELF!!!!!! GET STRONGER GET FASTER WORK HARDER

Yep just read a few threads and it is amazing how many think we were screwed.

[bisonhp330]

I think they got that right. Anybody actually see what happened on the Richards call?

that was actually the one time richards was in the right- he hit the guy- drove him to the ground- gets up with his hand on him and starts stepping over him- the guy grabs his leg and richards falls on top of him- the physical action was nothing- but with the idiot mouth he has....who knows- by my count it was #5 out of him- he needs to get his shit together

[1998braves64]

When my wife can call it without even asking me if there is some funky rule that allows EWU receivers to catch it on the bounce... something must be wrong, and I guess next year if someone lands on their back they can get up and keep running because they're not down.

Those of you saying well you shouldn't allow the refs to decide the game, NDSU was put in that position because of that first blown review and it allowed EWU to score a 64 yard TD when they should have been punting. So when EWU got the ball on their 10 it should have been NDSU 31 EWU 17. That would have created a whole different dynamic don't you think? Plus in a playoff game especially getting into quarterfinals... you're not going to be able to always blow the team out so a couple controversial calls can really cause a dramatic effect on the game as in this case it did. Blown call 1 lead directly to a TD. Blown call two lead directly to ending the game with opportunitIES for NDSU to score.

I was telling my wife they need to come up with a way for NCAA to look at these blown calls (FBS, FCS, DII etc) and penalize the refs making the calls for it to stop. I don't know if it could be monetary or suspension (which essentially would be monetary)?

I thought I saw and my wife did too one of the refs rule he was down, I thought one of the rules was that if one ref ruled him down, that was the ruling, because it seems to me that in other games I've seen a probable fumble and a ref rules it down and it stands because someone ruled it down even though the other ref threw his bean bag indicating a probable fumble. So the review should have gone into review as being called being down and had to be overturned into a fumble? But maybe I was mistaken in that a ref ruled it down.

One of my MSU Bobcats friends even said the refs screwed that one bad. Too bad we couldn't have had the same refs we did against MSU that was about the best called game we've had all year!

[DIBISON]

When my wife can call it without even asking me if there is some funky rule that allows EWU receivers to catch it on the bounce... something must be wrong, and I guess next year if someone lands on their back they can get up and keep running because they're not down.

Those of you saying well you shouldn't allow the refs to decide the game, NDSU was put in that position because of that first blown review and it allowed EWU to score a 64 yard TD when they should have been punting. So when EWU got the ball on their 10 it should have been NDSU 31 EWU 17. That would have created a whole different dynamic don't you think? Plus in a playoff game especially getting into quarterfinals... you're not going to be able to always blow the team out so a couple controversial calls can really cause a dramatic effect on the game as in this case it did. Blown call 1 lead directly to a TD. Blown call two lead directly to ending the game with opportunitIES for NDSU to score.

I was telling my wife they need to come up with a way for NCAA to look at these blown calls (FBS, FCS, DII etc) and penalize the refs making the calls for it to stop. I don't know if it could be monetary or suspension (which essentially would be monetary)?

I thought I saw and my wife did too one of the refs rule he was down, I thought one of the rules was that if one ref ruled him down, that was the ruling, because it seems to me that in other games I've seen a probable fumble and a ref rules it down and it stands because someone ruled it down even though the other ref threw his bean bag indicating a probable fumble. So the review should have gone into review as being called being down and had to be overturned into a fumble? But maybe I was mistaken in that a ref ruled it down.

One of my MSU Bobcats friends even said the refs screwed that one bad. Too bad we couldn't have had the same refs we did against MSU that was about the best called game we've had all year!

The game outcome will not change but you are right, especially on that 3rd down pass INCOMPLETION in the first quarter which led to the EWU touchdown on the next play.

[1998braves64]

Yeah I should have added that, all the crying and moaning isn't going to change the outcome now. But for me it's therapy... can't keep that stuff bottled up!