Reggie Smith appearance....
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This is bad enough as a still shot, but doesn't even do the justice of how much Lazard is being prevented from moving.
KSU going offsides on the last play should have also ended the game.
I will always stand by the notion that ISU still controlled things through play calling (pass on 2nd and 6, going prevent for maybe the first time all season on KSU's last drive) and scheme outside of the bad calls, BUT those missed/reversed calls by themselves were literally game changers.
If a similar thing happens this weekend, CMC needs to stop the coach speak and draw more attention to it. Reffing is a hard job, no doubt, but that one deserves any bashing he gets.
Oh come on, obviously the KSU defender was making a play on the ball...
With a reach around? Gross.
This is a night game, on a holiday weekend, coming off an ugly loss last week, with this week's opponent being a team we lose to painfully every year but were outright robbed against last year. This is going to be a well-lubricated crowd that will be highly sensitive to officiating mistakes. Officials need to bring their A game or hell will rain down on them.
Don't forget the picked up flag for the late hit on Kempt, which was pretty blatant as well.
Oh, that's right. That's on the back burner of the other ones.
I'm totally in the minority of thinking ISU controlled things without the calls, but man that was an awful sequence.
Not the same consequence, but I'd put the last two minutes of the 2015 and 2017 KSU games as right up there with the UAB loss in watching a nightmare unfold.
Reggie Smith officiated the TCU game this year. I believe that is the only other Iowa State game he's done.
We threw an incomplete pass, maybe on 2nd down, that was really a stupid play call, and of course what ended up being an "incompletion" on the Lazard no-call looks bad in hindsight. There were things to 2nd guess for sure, but at the same time, I also liked that we were going for the kill instead of sitting back and just trying to milk it out like I screamed at McCarney so many times for trying to do.
We could have done things better, but if ONE of those penalties is actually enforced we probably win that game.
I like the aggressive approach except ISU had been having success running it so it was reliable and it forces KSU to call their last time out. I just remember something about the play call bringing that old precarious feeling back into the fold. Right though that any of the penalties holding up likely ends it regardless.
They also missed a false start on K-State's first TD of the game. The receiver jumped early, right in front of the side judge and it wasn't just a flinch. Not on the same level as the other egregious missed calls and picked up flags all throughout that game but a miss on a key play nonetheless.
I always envision Reggie doing his best Frank Drebin impersonation when he was announcing those call reversals:
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If it does end up being Reggie, I think it's only fair that we boo him any time he announces a penalty.
If something unfolds like last year with a drunken crowd at a night game I would fear for the referees safety
Its a hard job but when they reviewed multiple penalties and picked up flags that were called on obvious penalties even after reviews, all the while missing blatant fouls on multiple occasions, at some point they have to be held accountable. There have been multiple games over the years that were pretty bad, last year there were a couple. But the KSU game was atrocious. That was the worst officiating I have ever seen, I've seen a game that had some borderline calls, a missed close call here and there or maybe one big miss. That game was a s$%t show. Everyone, on the losing side likes to blame the refs, but damn that was bad, I even think there were a few bad ones the other way too, but those just didn't have any effect on the game, hell they probably were just done for show.
The entire official crew should have been fired after that game, the only reason they weren't had to be because those in charge were pulling the strings, which is probably the reason we didn't get another apology letter.