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Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Both hold calls AND the no-call on the pass interference were worthy of C-USA officials (they are plenty bad). What was up with all the calls for WVU? Yikes.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Eagle in the gym Wrote:Both hold calls AND the no-call on the pass interference were worthy of C-USA officials (they are plenty bad). What was up with all the calls for WVU? Yikes.

BIG EAST officials are actually worse then C-USA officials.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Obviously they didn't want to deal with the mess that is the BCS. So they tried to put the fix on it. Too bad WVU sucked so bad even the refs couldn't help.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
I don't think the refs were trying to screw Pitt, or help WVU. They just suck. There's no need for a conspiracy theory.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Thought I was the only one. I saw some pretty f'ed up calls and some things that should have been called let slide.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Could it be that maybe the refs just made a few mistakes? Home teams tend to get some cooking and when announcers focus on a few calls they can influence how the game is viewed.

Switch or two of the calls in Pitt's favor and nobody says a thing. I'm sure it must feel nice to take a few potshots at the conference though. If you could prove these grassy knoll conspiracy theories it would make the conference look bad.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
The calls wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all thrown after the TD was scored or the first down was had. If they had thrown them during the play instead of after, I don't think you'd get this scrutiny. But they were all thrown after the play was decided and Pitt had either scored or made the first down.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
The timing of the calls coupled with what was at stake makes it look very bad. Both of the holding calls and the defensive holding that wasn't called were on potential game changing plays. Doesn't look good for the conference because it definitely looked like the officials were trying to influence the outcome.
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Big East refs are bad they screwed UC at Pitt this year for sure.
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From a (somewhat) non-biased observer, I thought the officiating simply sucked overall.....both teams got gifts, and both teams got screwed, IMO......I'm thinking that the BE and CUSA draw from the same officiating pool, because the horrible calls looked VERY familiar in "horribleness".....03-puke
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
I am not ready to accept any type deliberate effort on the part of the officials to influence the game. To admit that the conference tried to influence the result would rightfully take the BE out of national consideration as a top notch conference. If proven I bet the conference would get some type of death penalty. I certainly would not be able to follow the sport with the same interest to know that these kind of fixes were possible.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Shannon Panther Wrote:The calls wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all thrown after the TD was scored or the first down was had. If they had thrown them during the play instead of after, I don't think you'd get this scrutiny. But they were all thrown after the play was decided and Pitt had either scored or made the first down.

Shannon you hit the nail on the head. Both of Turner's "holds" came at critical junctures, and thus, stuck in everyone's minds. BE's refs are just consistently horrible.

On a side note, why can't Pitt CONSISTENTLY play that well?
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Even worse is the call wasn't made by the official closest to the play. Both times the call was made the linesman down the field, who normally sets up 30 yards from the line of scrimmage.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
LaRue777 Wrote:I am not ready to accept any type deliberate effort on the part of the officials to influence the game. To admit that the conference tried to influence the result would rightfully take the BE out of national consideration as a top notch conference. If proven I bet the conference would get some type of death penalty. I certainly would not be able to follow the sport with the same interest to know that these kind of fixes were possible.

Whether it's admitted or not many are questioning the officiating in the game and rightfully so. There are blown or questionable calls in every game but this was blatant in my opinion due to the timing and the delay in throwing the flag.
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Shannon Panther Wrote:The calls wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all thrown after the TD was scored or the first down was had. If they had thrown them during the play instead of after, I don't think you'd get this scrutiny. But they were all thrown after the play was decided and Pitt had either scored or made the first down.

Shannon you hit the nail on the head. Both of Turner's "holds" came at critical junctures, and thus, stuck in everyone's minds. BE's refs are just consistently horrible.

On a side note, why can't Pitt CONSISTENTLY play that well?

Our D has played well this year. Our Offense has true freshmen at the QB and RB position and both have hurt us this year. McCoy has been great but he has fumbled at critical junctions of 2 games and Bostick is a turnover machine when he puts the ball up over the middle. USF had 3 and so would WVU have if it weren't for Strong's terrific grab in the 4th quarter. If our backup QB who would have been a RS sr hadn't transferred to UDel, we probably are looking at 8-4 or 9-3 this season. Next year we should have our D back and the offense should be better with Stull back and Bostick with a year's experience. This year was rife with growing pains on offense, much like Cincy experienced 2 seasons ago with all the youth they had.
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It was obvious the Big East wanted West Virginia in the BCS Title game...The refs knew it...and knew who paid them...only, Pitt would have nothing of ot...Congratulations Pitt!....[/i]
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Shannon Panther Wrote:Our D has played well this year. Our Offense has true freshmen at the QB and RB position and both have hurt us this year. McCoy has been great but he has fumbled at critical junctions of 2 games and Bostick is a turnover machine when he puts the ball up over the middle. USF had 3 and so would WVU have if it weren't for Strong's terrific grab in the 4th quarter. If our backup QB who would have been a RS sr hadn't transferred to UDel, we probably are looking at 8-4 or 9-3 this season. Next year we should have our D back and the offense should be better with Stull back and Bostick with a year's experience. This year was rife with growing pains on offense, much like Cincy experienced 2 seasons ago with all the youth they had.

Yes... looks like Pitt has most everyone back (including Kinder who sat out?).
USF, UC, UConn, and WVU return most of their main contributors, I'd imagine.
RU loses mainly Rice?
UL needs to rebuild, but I imagine they still have a lot of weapons.
Even SU is now showing signs of putting an offense on the field.

Looks like the BE will be a minefield once again.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
BJUnklFkr Wrote:
Shannon Panther Wrote:Our D has played well this year. Our Offense has true freshmen at the QB and RB position and both have hurt us this year. McCoy has been great but he has fumbled at critical junctions of 2 games and Bostick is a turnover machine when he puts the ball up over the middle. USF had 3 and so would WVU have if it weren't for Strong's terrific grab in the 4th quarter. If our backup QB who would have been a RS sr hadn't transferred to UDel, we probably are looking at 8-4 or 9-3 this season. Next year we should have our D back and the offense should be better with Stull back and Bostick with a year's experience. This year was rife with growing pains on offense, much like Cincy experienced 2 seasons ago with all the youth they had.

Yes... looks like Pitt has most everyone back (including Kinder who sat out?).

Pitt loses 4 starters on O (the two OTs, C, and TE) and 4 on D (2 DEs, CB, S). Pitt only had 10 seniors I believe. They had 33 Fr or So on the two deep for WVu IIRC. Kinder blew out his knee in camp and took a redshirt. I hope he's back to 100%.

The two players they will miss the most, IMO, are Clermond (DE) and Otah (OT). As Shannon has alluded to in many posts, Pitt lost many starting players to injuries this year.
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
Just like the ridiculous non-call of a Slaton fumble that was returned for a touchdown in WVU's final home game last year, the Mountaineers again got the benefit of ridiculous officiating in this game. However, this was 100 times worse than the Rutgers game last year and embarrassed the conference since almost every non-WVU fan watching had to be thinking about a possible conspiracy as well.

The three holding calls (two clearly false calls on Pitt and one non-call on WVU) were beyond insane. Had the officials not been RIGHT THERE watching you could make a case that the calls were simply missed, but they saw it and clearly were looking for anything possible to benefit West Virginia. To make matters worse, even when it finally became clear that WVU was likely going down, they called a ridiculous "excessive celebration" penalty against a Pitt player who committed the high crime of jumping up and down once his team got closer to one of the greatest upsets to affect a national title race in history.

I'm not sure if there was an outright conspiracy or if it's another case of officials being intimidated by the hostile atmosphere in Morgantown. But what is clear is that this needs to be investigated. Sadly, it won't be.

Thank God Pitt at least won the game and kept an undeserving team out of the national title game. You hear that, WVU fans? 05-stirthepot
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RE: Why did the BE refs try to screw Pitt so bad?
TSopranoRU Wrote:Thank God Pitt at least won the game and kept an undeserving team out of the national title game. You hear that, WVU fans? 05-stirthepot

Unfortunately, we still have one underseving team in the national title game. Okl should be playing LSU for the title.

We all agree if you can't bring it every game, you have no place in the title game. THe BE was inthe title hunt last year. We were in the title hunt this year. Guess where we'll be next year?


P.S. IF WVU can beat Okl - in my book- they would be redeemed.
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