The Big 12 Zebra Preserve

I don’t think the Big 12 wants to change. They look at the October to mid-November series of ESPN Gameday matchups, and think that not calling holding is a great idea.

Tom Osborne would outlaw the forward pass if he could.

Also, I thought the Big 12 was entering into some regional ref-sharing type of arrangement with the Mountain West and/or WAC…or is that just something I completely made up?

Why in the name of Zeus’ butthole would the Big XII enter into an agreement like that?

Why in the name of Zeus’ butthole would the Big XII enter into an agreement like that?

Because, unlike entry into the Olympian’s Hershey Highway, Big XII officiating can’t stink any worse.

If they told me they were entering into a cooperative self monitoring program with Enron, Bear Stearns, and AIG, I don’t think it would get worse.

Though cross training with the NBA would definitely bring down the Big XII’s lofty standard.

Haha, fair enough. I suppose you’re right that it could only help the quality of officiating in the Big XII. Also, of the limited WAC and MWC games I’ve watched, I never had any problems with any of the officiating.

Dude, that is the best phrase ever. Everything is going to be in the name of Zeus’ butthole for the next week or so. Thanks i.t.

Zeus’s butthole

Well said Scipio; we’ve beaten these points to death over the last year, but I don’t see the conference changing.

The Big XII, in addition to warping the game of football beyond all recognition, is doing itself a disservice in getting its teams ready for bowl games.

Tom Osborne would outlaw the forward pass if he could. You should watch some of Nebraskas games when osborne was the coach. He was the master of setting up the play action pass to kill teams. Osborne would use the run like a baseball bat to the ribs time after time then suddenly stab you right in the ear with the play action pass.

Scipio’s theory makes sense to me. My guess is that Walt Anderson did not instigate this go easy on holding policy. More likely his boss, with the encouragement of Big 12 ADs, is the one pulling the strings. The fact that Osborne’s proposal (an obviously good idea) got no traction among the other ADs indicates that the fix is probably in.

The first step to fix this mess is to measure it (if it is worth doing, it is worth measuring) by comparing Big 12 holding to, for example, SEC holding. Right now there is no objective comparison of the quality of officiating between the various conferences.

So Colt throwing for over 400 yards against Ohio St. was our offense crashing to Earth?

I completely agree that the league lets too much holding go on, but I think each team’s failures were a bit more complex than their tackles being unable to hold defensive ends.

So Colt throwing for over 400 yards against Ohio St. was our offense crashing to Earth?
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My bad, I thought Quan’s miracle play at the end to win the game was necessiatated by our trailing on the scoreboard. I guess those passing yards would’ve won the game for us anyway.

Will:
 
Colt had 58 attempts to get those 414 yards and he was sacked four times. We also scored 24 points despite running 86 plays from scrimmage. Yes, that’s an offense coming down to earth.

You UT guys have got to get over the holding conspiracy. Texas Tech didn’t have any more holding calls than usual(2) against Ole’ Miss with Pac 10 officials.

I don’t remember OU having any additional holding calls against Florida. Ya’ll just think that because UT had some overhyped DE’s that underperformed and you needed a reason why, other than they were just overrated.

If you really want something to gripe about, how about officials that throw a flag on block in the back calls on punt returns. Then mysteriously wave the flag off after an obvious block in the back. That even Colt McCoy loving Musbuger saw.

Texas Tech didn’t have any more holding calls than usual(2) against Ole’ Miss with Pac 10 officials.

Really, Tim? No more than usual? I decided not to take your word for it and looked at the stats for Tech’s games against Kansas State, Nebraska, A&M, Texas, Oklahoma State and Baylor. You had one holding call against your offensive line in those six games. One.

One per game for six games? That’s impressive. That means Tech doubled their average on holds in the CB, with PAC-10 refs.

No. One holding call total from the offensive line in six games.

“Texas Tech didn’t have any more holding calls than usual(2) against Ole’ Miss with Pac 10 officials.”

and they got their shit pushed in. coincidence? I think not.

Honestly 2 holding calls, and that some how makes you idiots right? If what you morons are saying was right I would expect 4,5, or 6 calls from Pac-10 officials. I don’t think 2 justifies as a conspiracy.

But hey you idiots need an excuse for the reason Texas Tech kept UT out of a NC game, I get it. I do like how all of you have completely ignored the block-in-the-back call on Shipley’s return, or Crabtree’s phantom PI call. Without those two calls, it wouldn’t have been such a great game. Gald the refs could keep McCoy in it, just to see his face in the final :01.

“Gald the refs could keep McCoy in it, just to see his face in the final :01.”

Yeah that Colt is a real asshole.

“Honestly 2 holding calls, and that some how makes you idiots right?”

Well, it was twice as many as in the previous six games combined, so by definition, yes. Are you like six years old or something?

Colt had 58 attempts to get those 414 yards and he was sacked four times. We also scored 24 points despite running 86 plays from scrimmage. Yes, that’s an offense coming down to earth.
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Ok, but how can we extrapolate that the offensive line being unable to hold like they do in Big 12 games was the cause?

Don’t most teams tend to suffer a drop off in their bowl game when they don’t reach the game they want to be in? Notable examples of this being Georgia vs. WVU in 2005, Utah vs. Alabama last year, Cal vs. Tech in 2004, etc. and so forth.

We had 8 penalties in that game, which seemed to be pretty average for us.

I just figured our lack of offensive firepower to stem more from mistakes, a Senior laden Ohio State defense that was highly motivated, and our guys being let down because they were forced to play the Bucknuts instead of getting a title shot against Florida like they deserved.

Mack Tripper:

Yeah, I thought our defense being completely unable to stop either Wells or Pryor definitely wasn’t an issue as to why Ohio St. was in the lead near the end of the game.

It was absolutely all Colt and the offense’s fault. Glad you were able to catch that, champ.

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