What made it worse was when they met with reporters the following week and admitted you couldn’t see it from field level, but from sky cam it was obvious.
He also called Jack Campbell out of bounds and stopped the pick six at Minnesota in 22. The only problem was Jack Campbell never stepped out of bounds during the return. He came close but never did. In doing that tells me he is a terrible ref. You never stop a play, let it play out and fix it after the fact. I hate that guy.
Look at the positive, that loss led to Brian being fired immediately so that everyone knew he wouldn’t be back as OC. I’ll take that it still sucks for the Hawks and CDJ as one of his Heisman type plays.
Yes, they were at our Courtyard just down the street from the stadium. Gave them a rash of shiat the entire entire evening. They were drinking wine in the conference room off the lobby area. Went in and told them not to watch ESPN as they were excoriating their officiating during the game. They closed the doors to the conference room after that. LoL. That screw job by those officials led to only P5 officials being used for all P5 bowl games.
Brian was gone regardless.
BF was likely gone regardless, but making the decision at that point took alot of the toxicity out of the air and people stopped bringing up the drive to 325.
If I recall correctly one preseason magazine had us #1 that year & then that happened.
I forget who the officials were, but the worst men's game I can think of was the b10 quarterfinals vs Sparty in Gesell's/Woodbury freshman year - win probably got Iowa into the ncaa tourney that year. Iowa had a double digit lead and then Sparty was basically allowed to manhandle Iowa in the 2nd half. Some of the no-calls were really bad.Surely, someone can think of at least one call from......
Lol, not sure if you mean the whole crew or just the other two guys since you replied to a picture of Ted Valentine, but that WAS a Teddy V game. Shocking I know.... I remember McCabe getting drug down the court in what was almost a literal headlock and McCaffrey whipping his jacket at the scorers table as they went by.
Yeah I meant the whole crew…even TV Teddy couldn’t have accomplished that on his own.
Not sure they balance out but I do know the timing of the calls have major implications on the outcome of games. Especially when the game has been played in the squared circle, also known as the RAC, on an Anniversary of Chris Streets death where everything was allowed throughout the game until Keegan’s jersey brushed up against R Harper with 1.9 seconds left 25’ away from the basket and a foul was called.
Yep, it definitely impacted the outcome. Some bad calls might do it, might not. But it would have been pretty damn hard to blow that game without that much help from Teddy and the gang.
Not sure why anyone would play @ Hawaii. Talk about the ultimate distraction for your players.
I was a teenager when I went to my first bowl game down in Tampa for the Outback Bowl robbery in 2006. I don’t think anything compares. But to your Nebraska game comment, if it’s 2019, which I almost think it has to be, that game was the only other time watching an iowa sporting event, where I could be convinced that something nefarious was going on. And i think it was all in the fourth quarter. There was a horse collar overturned, I think a Nico catch they overturned, and then the worst was the targeting on an ISM catch across the middle. Duncan made the game winner shortly after, but that game is still number two in my book for bad refs.
A trip to Hawaii is a bit more than a simple "road game" like going to Tulsa, Kansas City or Chicago.
Yes, it was more common for non-con road games (other than ISU). But a trip to Hawaii is a hell of a lot different than going to KC to play a season opener against KState, or Chicago to play NIU or even Tucson. The sheer time and distance of the trip alone is enough, but then you throw in the fact that they're in paradise and that makes it a bit harder to focus.
IIRC those trips to Hawaii permitted schools to play a 12th game during the regular season, so it was pretty common to see UH play a major conference opponent to end the season.
👍 Plus scheduling them served as recruiting tools and somewhat for extra bowl games for fans
