I never call out the refs

[Cyclonepride]

The call I'm most disappointed in is the first "TD" of the game. Who cares if they would have gotten the TD anyway, they need to earn it, and it was very clear that ball carrier's knee was down with the ball at the 1-yard line. Unbelievable. We're still 3-0, so nothing else really matters.

Forgot about that one, but yeah, what the hell is replay for if you're going to call that good? If I remember correctly, the refs placed the ball at the 1/2 yard line until calling it a TD based on THAT.

Watching a replay of the fumbled/intentional grounding/in the grasp play- no doubt in my mind that was a fumble. He lost the ball because he started to throw it, then clearly tried to stop his motion.

Oh well, the team overcame all that, and that's what matters.

 

[Gizmo]

Write a letter to the supervisor of officials. I have done that when warranted.

 

[Pantherpower]

As has been stated by others, one of the worst (one-sided) officiated games I can remember watching. A real credit to ISU to overcome the early turnovers, numerous poor calls (or missed calls) and pull this game out.

The Jantz kid is unflappable. Most qb's start who start out the game the way he did against UCONN or us (UNI) wouldn't have the mindset to overcome it--bottom line, he's a winner. Additionally, this is the best ISU defense I can remember--they stepped up big and kept the Clones in it until the offense could get untracked.

 

[ruxCYtable]

Being a ref myself I tend to be pretty protective of them, but there is no defending these guys. The late hit on Washington, are you kidding me? The whistle hadn't blown and I don't even think the runner was all the way down yet!

Looks like some others have touched on it as well, but on the TD the runner's knee was clearly down and the ball hadn't crossed the goal line, the last angle clearly showed it. And yet somehow their was "indisputable" video evidence to overturn the ruling on the field? What a joke.

The first pass interference call that kept UConn's initial scoring drive alive was bad and I don't tend to watch a lot of line play but I saw white jersey's blatantly getting stretched out all night with no flags, even on kick returns.

They were bad, bad, bad.

 

[Sigmapolis]

As has been stated by others, one of the worst (one-sided) officiated games I can remember watching. A real credit to ISU to overcome the early turnovers, numerous poor calls (or missed calls) and pull this game out.

The Jantz kid is unflappable. Most qb's start who start out the game the way he did against UCONN or us (UNI) wouldn't have the mindset to overcome it--bottom line, he's a winner. Additionally, this is the best ISU defense I can remember--they stepped up big and kept the Clones in it until the offense could get untracked.

Agreed. Our defense kept eating UConn alive throughout most of the game, even though the offense had those few bad turnovers in the early parts to setup short fields. It could have easily been a few touchdown gap after the first quarter, instead of 10-0. Kudos to the defense for stepping up like that.

Also, in the same vein, congratulations to Kirby and the special teams. Josh, too. We won the field position game all night in pinning them back, and even the few touchbacks that Kirby hit could have been downed inside the 5 or 10 if the gunners had positioned themselves a little better. I'm waiting for our return guys to break one, but, yeah, we were constantly giving UConn long fields and ourselves short ones, which had a lot to do with our methodical wearing down of their lead and holding it in the second half.

 

[ISU_phoria]

complete contrast to last week's game. I thought the refs in the Iowa game did a very good job.

the reffing last night was about as bad as I've seen.....I was surprised Rhoads wasn't livid on the sidelines.

 

[marothisu]

They were terrible refs. Some of the worst I've ever seen. There were some obvious PF that should have been called on UConn and weren't, not to mention a few PI and holding penalties. They only call them for the really obvious offsides call.

I have some friends who watched the game with no affiliation to ISU or UConn and even they agreed the refs were absolutely terrible.

 

[Rogue52]

If I'm JP, I'm sending this game film to the conference to have the refs called out.... although, there may not BE a conference by the time they get the game film to them

I believe every coach sends a review of each game to conference officials.

 

[Shinyhappyclone]

The officials generally were over-compensating for not wanting to appear to favor ISU by totally favoring UConn.......hard to believe they could not ever call an offensive holding call on a team an entire game, that will always be a farce.
to me though, we should all thank Jupiter/Zeus/your favorite partisan politician that Money did not get called for taunting on his critical, game-changing touchdown. He should have been flagged by rule. Most disappointing is that he is that STUPID and SELFISH to do that to his team!!!! If we are flagged and lose that touchdown, we could very well lose. He may have shown some NFL talent tonight, but he showwed sitting-on-the-corner-drinking-a-40 immaturity and stupidity. You think the patriots or many nfl teams would waste a draft pick on some ignorant thug. You have the rest of the season Darius to redeem yourself, please do. this season is not about you, it is about the team and our fanbase.....the golden rule.

 

[The_Architect]

I hope CPR sends the tape in to the Big 12. The officiating was downright criminal.