First of all I am not in a good mood. My Hawkeyes lost but I am not going to let that cloud my judgement. I gotta say though after watching today's game I am getting sick and tired of bad officiating determining the outcomes of games. Just last week the officials jipped Indiana University with bad calls in their game against the Hawkeyes. There was an obvious TD which was somehow overturned. I guess the officials had a get together and decided this week they would screw the Hawks. I will say that the Hawks still beat Indiana even if they had gotten the TD however this week their calls or their non-calls more appropriately cost Iowa a chance to win the game.
If you watched the Northwestern game then you had to of seen the bad calls also. Brandon Wegher had a 30yd Touchdown run. The referees quickly threw a holding flag on Rafael Eubanks our center for following through with a clean pancake block that negated the touchdown which would of had the game tied 17 - 17 at the end instead of NW winning outright. This made me angry enough considering NW was getting away with holds the entire game and got called maybe once for it but just to add insult to injury they failed to call not one but two pass interference calls on the final drive of the game.
Vandenberg our backup QB was forced to play due to NW's defensive end rolling up Stanzi's ankle on a play in the first half. On the final set of downs I believe it was on first down that he threw a pass to the left sideline for McNutt who was blatantly held from going to make the catch. The Officials failed to call pass intereference. Their final and most heinous offense however was a play on third down in which Vandenberg threw for Tony Moeaki in the middle of the field. Moeaki was open but unable to get to the ball because the NW defender literally had an entire handful of the back of Moeaki's jersey and pulled him back so he could not make the catch. Both of these calls elicited loud and worthy boos from the crowd.
More than likely Iowa wouldn't of played for the National Championship but I don't care. What I care about is watching a good clean football game and that includes good officiating. This game literally made me have flashbacks of the 2006 Outback Bowl against Florida which is probably the worst officiated football game in the history of college football. This was a huge game and I am not saying that if those calls had been made (which they should of) that Iowa would have won they were looking at tying for overtime however, they were denied a chance to win and that is wrong.
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bad call on an interception in the LSU Bama game, it was a pick, but instead of making the correct call, it allowed Bama to put up 3 more. I hate when calls change the game.
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NW is not that bad and they are rivals to the Hawkeyes. They always play the Hawkeyes tough. Stats and wins and losses mean nothing in rivalry games. They got handed a touchdown on a silver platter when they rolled up on Stanzi's ankle and he fumbled the ball away because he was hurt. Take that away and they lose that game. Not to mention we had to play a freshman quarterback for the rest of the game after that. It's going to be hard for any team to win with a backup QB. Substituting for a QB is so much more complex than say substituting for a CB or a Safety for example, especially when your backup is a freshman who has thrown a whopping three passes in garbage time against Iowa State way back in the beginning of the season.
If you take the injury away Iowa wins the game hands down. They were moving the ball a lot better when Stanzi was in. Irregardless of the injury it still doesn't take away the fact that poor officiating denied Iowa a chance to win the game. They made a bad call on the hold which took away a game tying touchdown, they called a fumble on a play in which our RB Wegher's knee was clearly down and then they didn't review it, and lastly they failed to call at least two blatantly obvious pass interference penalties on Iowa's last drive. I don't care how late in the game it is, when a defensive player has a handful of a tight ends jersey and effectively holds him back keeping him from making a catch that's an easy call and it should have been made.
People will more than likely ignore me or write me off because this was a Hawkeyes game but if this happened to the Gators or to USC there would be a media uproar over the issue. I hate how people measure how good a team is by how much they blow other teams out. Iowa has one of the toughest schedules in the nation and people seem to forget they are on their third person on the depth chart on both kick and punt returns as well as at running back. They also were also down a starting safety and offensive lineman and for a chunk of the third quarter into the second half they had to play a freshman qb with absolutely no starting experience.
Oh and last but not least. Another non-call by the great officiating crew out at Kinnick today.
It's been like this for the past 4 weeks it seems.
You mentioned last weeks incident in the Iowa game. I thought what was funny, was what the commentators were saying during the replays, then right after.
"Oh that is a catch" replay comes in and changes "ok, I don't understand" LOL
No matter what the commentators said, they were always wrong, according to the officials....
Then Florida gets fined $30k for making a verbal judgement against the officiating. I say Florida, because you know the school isn't going to let him pay that out of pocket.
The week before Saban made a comment and the week before that another coach was in the hotseat, I think it was Tennessee's coach if I remember.
shibby..its big ten officiating...everyone knows that its questionable, even that old piece of crap paterno. im sure that the fact that theyre your team magnifies the problem for you, but i dont doubt that there were blown calls..
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Well Ohio State beat Penn State so if Iowa beats Ohio State they win the Big Ten outright. Fact of the matter is though that we were denied a chance of staying undefeated by extremely poor officiating.
I don't see Iowa beating Ohio State in Columbus with Vandenberg at QB though. He is simply too inexperienced. We will definitely have to rely on our defense and hope they can handle Pryor and get some defensive TDs. That's really the only way Iowa will win unless by some strange stroke of luck Vandenberg starts playing like Dan Marino or something.
My guess though is that Ohio State wins and takes the Big Ten yet again only to go play in the Rose Bowl and further embarass the conference against whoever wins the PAC-10.
I think though that Iowa will win whatever Bowl Game they end up playing in. We'll be returning all starters except for 2 next season and we should have ***ell Hampton our number one halfback back at full strength. Iowa should be scary good next season.
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