crooked refs

[Tatanka]

A direct pipeline to Sonic?

[stevdock]

I know most of you are moving on and we should, but I just saw the replay of the Austin Richard penalty. Initially just like most of you had no idea what happened. Then when you watch the replay you see #10 wrap his arm around his leg and pull him down.

Finally I watched the block that Richard put on him and it looks to me like Richard grabbed his facemask and yanked him down with it. Well based on the refs reactions he never saw that possible fasemask as he only went for the flag after Richard fell on #10. Mr. Richard may not be as innocent as some of us might think he is.

[Twentysix]

I know most of you are moving on and we should, but I just saw the replay of the Austin Richard penalty. Initially just like most of you had no idea what happened. Then when you watch the replay you see #10 wrap his arm around his leg and pull him down.

Finally I watched the block that Richard put on him and it looks to me like Richard grabbed his facemask and yanked him down with it. Well based on the refs reactions he never saw that possible fasemask as he only went for the flag after Richard fell on #10. Mr. Richard may not be as innocent as some of us might think he is.

Whoever thought richards was innocent of anything is naive. Kids got a bad temper.

[lakesbison]

freakin BILL FETTE!!

[sambini]

Is Jack his Dad?

[IndyBison]

I know most of you are moving on and we should, but I just saw the replay of the Austin Richard penalty. Initially just like most of you had no idea what happened. Then when you watch the replay you see #10 wrap his arm around his leg and pull him down.

Finally I watched the block that Richard put on him and it looks to me like Richard grabbed his facemask and yanked him down with it. Well based on the refs reactions he never saw that possible fasemask as he only went for the flag after Richard fell on #10. Mr. Richard may not be as innocent as some of us might think he is.

Not necessarily. There is no requirement that the flag has to happen immediately after the official sees the foul. Sometimes you need to process what you see and not react too quickly and sometimes you just can't get that damn flag out of your belt. Fans see these as late flags but they aren't. It's possible he called the foul on the facemask (I haven't seen that on the replay) but if he did, it could have been a live ball foul rather than a dead ball foul and the referee would have announced the facemask part of it.

I think either there is something about the way Richards got up that we can't see or he got too close to the play and didn't see what #10 did to cause Richards to fall on him. I'm guessing the latter more than the former. Believe it or not, some things are easier to see if you are farther away.

[Jim Puetz]

I'm not sure if this has been posted in this extraordinarily long thread (I only had time to read through the first 5 screens, but all day long Lakes was looking for a conspiracy regarding the game. Well here is your conspiracy Lakes. The officials on the field were from the CAA, Villanova's conference. Prior to the start of the game, we knew that Villanova had won and was advancing to play the winner of NDSU vs EWU. Villanova wanted no part of playing in the FFD, in front of 20,000 (The Nuthouse Lite), against the Mighty Bison. So the Villanova AD contacts the guys in the Buffalo Wild Wings command center, who let the refs know that Villanova prefers to play EWU, and the rest is history. And yes, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

[onbison09]

Not necessarily. There is no requirement that the flag has to happen immediately after the official sees the foul. Sometimes you need to process what you see and not react too quickly and sometimes you just can't get that damn flag out of your belt. Fans see these as late flags but they aren't. It's possible he called the foul on the facemask (I haven't seen that on the replay) but if he did, it could have been a live ball foul rather than a dead ball foul and the referee would have announced the facemask part of it.

I think either there is something about the way Richards got up that we can't see or he got too close to the play and didn't see what #10 did to cause Richards to fall on him. I'm guessing the latter more than the former. Believe it or not, some things are easier to see if you are farther away.

Wouldn't he have called a facemask then? I don't think he did.

Edit: Quoted wrong message.

[SDbison]

I know most of you are moving on and we should, but I just saw the replay of the Austin Richard penalty. Initially just like most of you had no idea what happened. Then when you watch the replay you see #10 wrap his arm around his leg and pull him down.

Finally I watched the block that Richard put on him and it looks to me like Richard grabbed his facemask and yanked him down with it. Well based on the refs reactions he never saw that possible fasemask as he only went for the flag after Richard fell on #10. Mr. Richard may not be as innocent as some of us might think he is.

Wow stevdock, you must have x-ray vision. Don't know how in the hell you see a facemask by Richard in that replay. Maybe you should stop dreaming up shit or get your eyes checked.

[Bisonfan1]

I'm not sure if this has been posted in this extraordinarily long thread (I only had time to read through the first 5 screens, but all day long Lakes was looking for a conspiracy regarding the game. Well here is your conspiracy Lakes. The officials on the field were from the CAA, Villanova's conference. Prior to the start of the game, we knew that Villanova had won and was advancing to play the winner of NDSU vs EWU. Villanova wanted no part of playing in the FFD, in front of 20,000 (The Nuthouse Lite), against the Mighty Bison. So the Villanova AD contacts the guys in the Buffalo Wild Wings command center, who let the refs know that Villanova prefers to play EWU, and the rest is history. And yes, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

HA HA good one, wait a minute, are you serious ??