Well it's a college in Michigan so they're probably mostly Lions fans. Things like this actually happen all the time.
WTF!!! Highway robbery, W Mich gets it up the ***, terrible
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Only last season USC beat Iowa, largely because TWO blatant face mask penalties were NOT called against the hometown Trojans.
That's not how ya do it these days. Cheating in broad daylight is the modus operandi of the federal government under the corrupt hand of an evil dictator. Why should college football be any different?
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Duke everything isn't about politics. College football is supposed to be a refuge from all of that. Let's keep it that way.
This is absolutely true. Iowa has been involved in such endings a few times. Michigan and scandal . . . what else is new? Hell, Whittingham even admitted there was no time left. Of course, that's easy to do when you know nothing will come of it.
I think his fingers are still stuck in there.
You need to get down off your soap box, for a bit. How wonderful it must be to go through life where "everything is BS". There have to be other websites where you can release all of this pent up anger you have, or possibly seek help from a professional.....
We have examples of competitors losing because they helped their opponents. It happens in track on occasions. You could look it up. Frankly, if I were a Michigan coach, player or fan, I would be ashamed and embarrassed to have that game handed to me like that. To expect anyone to do the right thing is, of course, unrealistic. We all know that. It doesn't make the outcome any less controversial or any less acceptable.
It's supposed to be, but it isn't. That's the damn point. And unlike you, I don't exist in a vacuum.
No coach would do that and survive. Its really easy to be on the outside and say what someone else would do. There isn't a coach in any sport that would not run that play if the refs said there was still time, and saying so is ridiculous. There are dozens of fans on this site who rail on Kirk for taking a knee with a couple of seconds left in a half and not running a play, and you think they'd be okay with him walking off, and not running that play again if the refs said there was time left.
You mean you're not a professional? You can take time to get worked up about the outcome of a college football game, but you're not all that concerned about innocent people being murdered on the streets by your own government's secret police, or about the people dying in an illegal war, or about the people starving because the federal government has taken away their food support, or people dying because the federal government has taken away their health care, of that a convicted sex offender and felon continues his evil, cruel corruption every damn day? Hey, good for you. Concentrate on college football and ignore the MAGA hell that exists everywhere.
Yeah....the Big Ten provided video and audio "proof" supporting their decision. No chance of any funny business there.
Suppose the situation were reversed. Anyone think the review officials would have put 1 second back on the clock and given Western Michigan another shot?
In an individual sport where they are the ONLY one affected by their decision. That's comparing apples to chainsaws in this case. NO coach is going to take his team off the field if the refs said play on in that case. Anyone who says that Iowa fans would be okay with Kirk doing that is lying or just caught up in the moment of this injustice.
I mean you either need to seek help on take a break from posting. My hope here is Tom or the mods will put an end to your continued turning these threads into your political rants in the same way they shut down an issue on the the women's basketball forum. This is NOT a forum about politics. People may slip up from time to time, but they don't go on, and on, and on with this stuff..
Agree. There is no place for that garbage here.
Apparently the B1G office has pics of the ball being touched by the WMU defender when there was 1 second on the clock
In MBB, once the red lights go off around the basket, the game is over.
In CFB, it's when the scoreboard says 0:00....right? From everything I have seen, the ball was still in the air when the clock hit 0:00.
Sure they do....wink wink.
And the refs missed more than this one call. They missed a facemask, a running into the kicker, and other calls that shouldn't be missed that all benefited Michigan.
I'm not taking a side. Just relaying what different talking heads have said. I think WM got screwed, but I know nothings going to change how it ended
FFS man. STFU. There's an OT forum for this kind of stuff.
I've taken the time to actually read about this...it was INFACT THE CORRECT CALL!!!!
And fwiw...my Wolverines suck balz...our O being that bad is real
Those two things are separate...we didn't deserve to win but it was legit
that ruling was made by an official in the Kinnick Press box
then the B1G changed things & centralized the process in Chicago
Since the mods won't do anything about your constant politicking on the football board, I am putting you on ignore. You are a pathetic excuse for a human being.
Only in the fantasy world you exist in.
In the "fantasy world" I live in that was the call that was made (and it was correct)
It is amazing you would call it fantasy because it is 100% what happened
You are are delusional if you don't understand that is what happened in the real world
What can I do to help you live in the real world?
The rule book agrees with it...
You can take up your concerns with those that wrote the rules if you have a problem
The thing is I don't get the rule either...but it is the rule and you should stop being stupid thinking it's not
We've seen video and still images of the ball in the air with 0:00 on the clock.
OK, show us what you've got for evidence.
Are you referring to the "a secret room in Chicago shall make the final decision" rule?
Somehow Dave Witvoet is involved in this.
There is video anc still frames all over the net that show the ball in the air with double zeros on the clock. The B1G stating they "saw" .04 on a clock no one else gets to see is just a lame attempt at CYA. You are the same buffoon who claimed the Stallions thing was a nothing burger.
The WMU player touched the ball out of bounds which (apparently) by rule gave Michigan another play
You can call the rule stupid... that's fine...it's a random rule
But you can't call it fake because it exists
What don't you get?
The President of WMU literally went public that he talked to his own coaches and his own conference commis and they said "that's the rule"
Son...you are wrong
Amen brother!
Currently a world where $$$ gets special treatment and access. We should not be surprised that the BIG and big brands can buy special treatment and shape whatever narrative they want. That’s exactly what happened here - big brand and BIG interest getting special treatment and ruining the integrity of the game.
I saw somewhere that it was determined that there was 0.04 seconds left when the WMU player touched the ball. When you look at the video the B10 is showing perhaps so, after the initial touch the clock almost immediately goes to zero.
So my big question is if they can adjudicate the end of the play to literally hundreths of a second, should they not go back and look at the start of the play too?
Very possible, and perhaps likely, a tenth of a second elapsed after the ball was snapped and the play clock was started.
Why not review that too?
So my big question is if they can adjudicate the end of the play to literally hundreths of a second, should they not go back and look at the start of the play too?
Very possible, and perhaps likely, a tenth of a second elapsed after the ball was snapped and the play clock was started.
Why not review that too?
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