(10-21-2017 05:59 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  

(10-21-2017 05:29 PM)MotoRocket Wrote:  

(10-21-2017 05:06 PM)emanoh Wrote:  Akron 0 penalties. UT 11 for 104 yards.

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To be fair to the refs, they were not at all one-sided. They did call a penalty against Akron, but we were able to offset it with one of our own. They may have had another that we declined, but can't really remember that happening.

Why is it again this year, as it was last year, we have more penalties called on his than our opponents have called on them - in our stadium. I do believe the MAC refs see the stats on penalties and go into games expecting us to have a lot of penalties, so they call anything close against us. It's that thing where they know the opposing coach will read them the riot act of they don't get a lot of calls - and I'm sure they are on them early and also mention it before the coin toss that we are the most penalized team in the conference - in case they were not aware of it.

I really don't think it's the refs. It's UT continually making dumb plays. I'd guess 80% of the penalties called on UT this year have been blatantly obvious. Maybe 10% borderline and 10% bad calls.

One pass interference everyone was booing I called before the refs. DB hooked receiver around the waist for two strides before ball arrived. No point. Just dumb penalties. A game will come when we won't get away with that.