Why is ND allowed to pass interfere

[Pitt79]

ND has the NCAA in their back pocket, to prove it, watch the replay of the game and jot down the holding calls, the wide receivers pushing off and most importantly the no call pass interference...

F'n ridiculous !

This is part of the FAKENESS of College Football, since the entrance requirements to the playoffs are totally subjective, the powers that be can manipulate the results to try to push the TV ratings leaders into the playoffs, like ND, the SEC, tOSU, etc. Look at how ND always starts the season ranked in the Top 10? Some of those years they ended up with losing records, the point of putting them there though is that the TV networks want them positioned for any big TV games if they happen to win 10-11 games. College Football touts that the whole season is a playoff, but in the end, when a "committee" picks the playoff teams, it's about as real as Vince McMahon and the WWE. I'll never believe it's a legit playoff until they have some system that forces ND to join a conference and at least the 5 Power Conference Champs are guaranteed playoff spots.

 

[Pittx9]

Just a question how wide open does fuller have to get to be not considered a penalty. your db were slow. what i saw was refs letting em play and if you want you could call a penalty against either side

That doesn't even make sense. A) There's no such thing as "letting them play" in football when the penalties are the obvious, otherwise nobody would ever complete a pass when a defender was covering him B) That's what I just said, our d-backs were slow, Fuller was wide open, how do you expect them to interfere with him when they are nowhere near him?

 

[Pittx9]

ND has had more penalties called on it this year than the opposition has had called on them.

ND has been penalized 50 times for 525 yards. Opponents have been penalized 48 times for 464 yards.

Hit the link and look down the team stats.

http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/2015-2016/teamcume.html

That means nothing to me. If they commit 150 penalties and get called for 50 they still came out pretty favorably. The opponents I have no explanation for, other than maybe the Temple game had something to do with it. I don't care what people think I thought that was the first game I've seen where Notre Dame was actually having a lot of calls and non-calls not got their way.

Whether you agree with how I go about this or not, you can not disagree that overall in college football this season the officiating has been beyond awful and unacceptable.

 

[TheDecker]

Pitt is one of the lowest penaltized teams this year. We have been very disciplined.

Another great example of bias

If ND was one of the least penalized teams, you'd immediately assume it was because of favorable Redding and not paying disciplined...in fact that's the exact argument you're making about last week's game

The reality is threat fans of every team assume that every call on the opponent is right, almost every call on them is wrong, and the only calls that are missed are for the opponent

Of curse, that's not reality

Reality is that every fan base feels this way because, while far from perfect, reffing is normally very even

 

[TheDecker]

That doesn't even make sense. A) There's no such thing as "letting them play" in football when the penalties are the obvious, otherwise nobody would ever complete a pass when a defender was covering him B) That's what I just said, our d-backs were slow, Fuller was wide open, how do you expect them to interfere with him when they are nowhere near him?

You realize your DBs can commit fouls right at the LOS, even though they're slow, and against other WRs

Plus, positions other than DB can commit penalties too

 

[Pittx9]

You realize your DBs can commit fouls right at the LOS, even though they're slow, and against other WRs

Plus, positions other than DB can commit penalties too

Ok, but you said can twice. If they actually did, that'd be another thing.

 

[Black_Man_Panther]

Spielman is a f'n idiot. He had to drive into Pittsburgh to get to the Pitt practice at 10AM. He asked my friend if he left Columbus at 5AM would he make it. He literally said "where is Pittsburgh? Isn't it like 6 hours from Columbus?"

The guy is a f'n moron.

He's not.
Sean a Syracuse fan.
Spielman an Ohio state fan and former all American player.

You're wrong

 

[thebadby2]

Spielman is a f'n idiot. He had to drive into Pittsburgh to get to the Pitt practice at 10AM. He asked my friend if he left Columbus at 5AM would he make it. He literally said "where is Pittsburgh? Isn't it like 6 hours from Columbus?"

The guy is a f'n moron.

He's also one of the best ILBs to ever okay the game of football.

BTW, I have a hard time believing that story. He grew up 2 hours from Pittsbutgh and has announced all over the country including in Pittsburgh for 15 years.

 

[MajorMajors]

Just a question how wide open does fuller have to get to be not considered a penalty. your db were slow. what i saw was refs letting em play and if you want you could call a penalty against either side

ND is definitely the better team and should have won the game. But after watching some of the replay last night, even the announcers acknowledged several cases where the ND DBs were grabbing the Pitt WRs before the ball arrived - some of them, like the holding on Challingsworth on the Boyd pass play - were blatant, and were right in front of an official, and were not called.

And how about the "spot" where based on the linesman's placement of the ball, the Pitt RB failed to make the first down line by over a yard, and then made the first down after a review. Now that was really good on-field officiating.

When the better team was allowed to grab and hold - er, I mean the refs decide to "let them play," it definitely favored ND in this game...

Go Pitt.

 

[Pittx9]

ND is definitely the better team and should have won the game. But after watching some of the replay last night, even the announcers acknowledged several cases where the ND DBs were grabbing the Pitt WRs before the ball arrived - some of them, like the holding on Challingsworth on the Boyd pass play - were blatant, and were right in front of an official, and were not called.

And how about the "spot" where based on the linesman's placement of the ball, the Pitt RB failed to make the first down line by over a yard, and then made the first down after a review. Now that was really good on-field officiating.

When the better team was allowed to grab and hold - er, I mean the refs decide to "let them play," it definitely favored ND in this game...

Go Pitt.

Exactly. That is the best post about this I've seen. Notre Dame is much better, but you can not just ignore how bad the officiating was. The Irish fans claiming the officiating was even are even more biased than us by a country mile. I was very venomously letting the officials know how I felt Saturday, and there were Irish fans coming up with excuses why some of the interferences weren't. Needless to say, their arguments made zero sense whatsoever. Among some other mishaps, there were at the very least 3 PI no calls that could not have been any more obvious. Well maybe 2, the Challingsworth one actually was probably closer to defensive holding than PI.

The ball spot as you mentioned was also terrible on a couple of occasions. Something needs to be done across the country about officiating, it is absolutely ruining games and been so disgraceful to people who actually have officiated and know the rules.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

You're all still discussing this?

Move on. The refs didn't call Pitt for PI, either. the refs were the least of Pitt's problems.
AGain.