I was at the game. Refs were booed off the field as they left by home fans who won 28-7.
It was perhaps the worst officiating that I have seen in a long time. It was like the SEC refs ignoring Donovan Hinish being held on the game deciding play for a full 4 quarters.
I think that is is very safe at this point to say that the ACC hates our guts. If we can't get different refs, I would rather join a conference than deal with this mistreatment. We are occasionally jammed by the opponents conference reps, but the worst hose jobs consistently come from "our own" ACC.
Replies to: I was at the game. Refs were booed off the field as they left by home fans who won 28-7.
I've been to roughly 170 Irish games since 1960.
I can't imagine sitting through the heat, all the stoppage in play, TV time outs, and penalties that were on full display yesterday.
I was at the game as well, and aside from Baron's gaffe with the Refs conference affiliation,
I agree that their performance was the worst I've ever seen...and the sustained BOOING' from the crowd could have been heard in Mishawaka.What made it so intense was the repeated JumboTron evidence of how wrong they were. It was a credit to the Coaches and Players to soldier on through those 'Distractions'. Nice to see the pressure on BSU's QB and some solid tackling...holding BSU to 7 points through all that was an accomplishment.
The refs were Mountain West.
They make ACC refs look like the gold standard.
Justin Elliott-led ACC officiating crew
They were not MWC according to the link, although another article says the were MWC.
Link: Marcus Freeman on his interactions with ACC officiating crew
Then what I heard on radio was correct after all - am ACC officiating crew. Regardless -unacceptable
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Absolutely horrid and there were make up calls as well which is why
it “appeared bad both ways” as they covered their tracks.
Was listening to radio on way home, that is why I thought they were ACC.
Addendum: Turns out they were ACC officials.
Next week should be fun when ND plays an actual ACC team with ACC refs.
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As fun as against Boise when they DID have an ACC crew? The distance between smartass & dumbass is
very small.
Boise State had more penalties (13) than ND (11) for the same number of yards.
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They were actually doing "catch up calls', it was that bad.The impact calls against ND were lobsided
At the game, you could see the whole field plus the replay on the Jumbotron which was going out of its way to challenge the ref BS (and was not being shown on TV in every case.
I will say that it didn't affect the outcome....but not for their lack of trying.
Also, by game end, both teams remarkably had the exact same # penalty yds(112 apiece). crew was here
last yr at the Virginia game. Freeman was equally pissed w good reason then.
Look, I’ll watch the game again anyways, but the critical calls they made sustained multiple BSU drives, bled clock, and inordinately impacted ND by comparison.
We still won, but they should never be allowed to ref at ND again.
Does ND specifically hire this crew or are they assigned by some secret underground organization?
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Addendum edit - they were assigned by the ACC. I want out.
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