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Paul Wesley

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  1. The block in the back on the punt is the flag I have the least issue with. That dude had zero chance of affecting the play, but it was still a foul. The absurd PI against Watts for hand fighting while the ball sailed 10 yards out of bounds - not even close to PI and not even close to catchable. Result? 3 points for ISU and a tie ballgame. The ticky-tacky hold on our TD pass... shit, our D linemen get held far worse than that on literally every possession of every game. That took 4 points from us. The "grounding" call where Worthy broke right and Quinn threw it left on a scramble drill and the ball went 35+ yards in the air - that's a judgement call where the officials have to decide whether the QB was trying to complete a touchdown pass, or if he was throwing the ball into the grass to avoid a sack. It's a lot like an ump deciding whether a pitcher intended to hit the batter. And I just literally cannot remember that being flagged when a QB is trying to complete a pass that far down the field, but miscommunicates with the receiver. Never. Not once. That was bullshit. It didn't affect the score, because Auburn hit a very difficult field goal anyway, but it was obvious fuckery, and you KNEW they were gonna flag it when they huddled up together 15 seconds after the play ended. The "procedure" penalty against Whittington... again, that's a reeeeeally soft call that you could probably flag multiple times every game, but it just never gets flagged. But, as others have said, it's not the calls on us as much as it's the failure to flag obvious penalties on our Big 12 opponents that's just so consistently 1-sided. Our ball carriers and receivers got hit a step or two out of bounds all night in Ames. Our D linemen got grabbed, held, and tackled all night with zero holding flags. Worthy and Mitchell had at least two uncalled PI on very, very catchable balls where they were taken to the ground by the DB - one where Worthy is trying to come back for an under thrown deep ball. Pretty good chance we get points there - first down at midfield instead of punting from our side of the field - if we get a flag on the most obvious PI call of the season. That jailbreak "screen" - Iowa State got 33 yards on a critical late drive where they scored 7 points, and it was OBVIOUS in real time that 3 of their linemen were between 7-8 yards downfield hunting for DB to block and the ball was completed past the line of scrimmage. I can't remember down and distance, but there's a very high chance that's a drive-killer with any semblance of fair officiating (would have put them in 2nd and 20+ back on their side of the field instead of 1st down in our red zone). That's also reviewable and was as obvious as can be had they taken a look. It was a 43-yard difference in field position on what turned out to be a 7-point Iowa State drive. And then a snap or two later, if Murphy doesn't get obviously held out in space on the subsequent TD, their QB would have been throwing it with an NFL DT right in his face (or yet again that same drive is stalled by an obvious 10-yard penalty). With any reasonable degree of even-handed officiating, this is a 20- to 24-point game. And as HC pointed out, we are repeatedly getting DEEP in the second half before our opponent gets a single penalty marked against them. Then, just like in basketball, we might get 3 or 4 meaningless calls in the last possession or two (after the outcome is decided), so that the 8-0 penalty disparity ends up more like 8-5, and the league doesn't have to account for a comically 1-sided box score even though it was comically 1-sided officiating for the first 50+ minutes. Our record - and any reasonable eyeball test - says we're the best team with the best players in this Big 12, but - miraculously - our NFL-caliber D line never gets held, and our NFL-caliber receivers never get interfered with. The season-long penalty stats 100% illustrate the league fuckery, and it's happening while our conference commissioners repeatedly mock us and openly cheer for our opponents to beat us. Show me a clip where a league commissioner is giving spirited pep talk to one team for them to beat another team in his own league.
  2. I’m hoping for four more games.
  3. When a QB and WR read the field differently, and the wideout breaks one way and the QB throws it the other way (40 yards downfield) - that happens every game, and you NEVER EVER see that flagged as "grounding" (because it's not). But when the refs huddled up, I had no doubt they were going to agree to flag it (they did). At that point in the game, Texas had about 50 yards in penalty yardage against us, and ISU had 0.
  4. If we're thinking of the same play, it was the one where Anthony Hill hit their tight end out on the (offense's) right side, and tackled him on the leading edge of the "5" where the 50-yard-line marker is painted on the turf. Then we get a few different camera shots, and when we see the line of scrimmage set for the next play, the ball has been spotted all the way past that 5... i.e. it was close to 2 yards ahead of his most-generous forward progress.
  5. Yormark and Weisner have been openly mocking us and cheering against us for YEARS. There is no motive at all for them to "clarify" anything this week, when their IDEAL SCENARIO is to have vaguely-written rules that allow them to take ANY teams except Texas.
  6. Sorry for the thread interruption (a callback to Celebrity Death Pool -- 2017):
  7. This reminds me of a story: A few years back, my nephew was getting his pilot's license. He was taking lessons down in Kerrville (I don't know which airport). During his first-ever solo flight, he radios something to the tower about landing, and he's told, "No, you're not clear. There's another plane ahead of you." The other pilot hears this and says, basically, "No. It's okay. He can land first." So my nephew lands. A short time he's at the hangar, getting some congratulations from the old-timers who hang around the airport all day (my late father was one of these guys, but not in Kerrville). Then the other pilot who had given him the go-ahead walks by. He smiles and nods in approval to my nephew. "Nice landing, kid." It was Gene Cernan.
  8. Listened to this, and when I heard him deliver the line, "at a wedding reception in 1972," I thought, "Hmm, that voice sounds just like the dude in that song they use as the theme for the podcast 'Heavyweight.'" Looked it up, and yep... Side note: I am the fucking nerdy guy in that commercial telling everyone about a podcast that I heard.
  9. My thoughts exactly. I mean, it's already turning into a clown show. Wrestling belts? Trying to hype up a "Bluebonnet Rivalry" as a cornerstone rivalry game in your new league... a game that will draw 200K TV viewers if it's not relegated to streaming. I've said it in other threads: These teams don't even give a shit about each other, as witnessed by abysmal attendance, abysmal TV numbers in nearly every game that doesn't involve Texas our OU.
  10. I want to win the next two. If we beat OSU in championship game, we can say "scoreboard forever" to Yormark and Wiesner and the whole league. If we beat OU in championship game, we can say "avenged their only loss," which would be a huge thing if we're in a beauty contest of 1-loss teams for the 4th playoff spot.
  11. no, yes, no, yes, yes
  12. And I'll never look at entire season's worth of home conference games and think, "College football fans across the country don't give a tiny shit about playing a single one of these teams."
  13. Fuck you, Campbell
  14. Fuck "bleeding clock." In college football, 6-play TD drives that take 90 seconds happen ALL the time. You do not "bleed clock" in a 1-score game where each team is gonna get two or three more possessions. edit: score, score, score
  15. I’d love to hear the talk in the booth during commercials. There’s just no way they don’t see the the uncalled PI vs Mitchell in the end zone, the uncalled OPI on ISU to start this half, the uncalled two linemen 8 yards downfield on their “screen” that went for 33 yards, the uncalled hold on Murphy that kept their QB clean on the TD throw… And you look up and we’re in 4Q and ISU has 0 penalty yards. 0
  16. 1. Not PI 2. Not catchable
  17. You gotta try an onsides kick there.
  18. Brian Jones slowly turning into a Jolly Mr. Claus.
  19. Yeah, this whole second half had an incompetent, Keystone cops, both-teams-trying-to-lose vibe. Looks like BYU is going to win (lose) that contest.
  20. It's even better (worse) without the music:
  21. I mean, the fact that we're coming off the worst decade in Texas football history, and yet we're THE team that lives in Iowa State's head - you know what that tells me? It tells me that the rest of this left-behind league is profoundly lacking in name-brand schools that ANYONE gives a shit about. Hell, our own conference mates don't even give a shit about playing each other, as witnessed by the abysmal TV numbers when there's no OU or Texas on the field, and instead it's just Baylor, UH, Cincinnati, KSU Iowa State, etc. See how this Iowa State guy doesn't give a shit about the rest of this also-ran teams in flyover country? See how he's going to be without a SINGLE Big 12 home game next year that he's super excited to be a part of? That's how OU and Texas have felt for the past decade.
  22. A fan of the team with players betting on their own games, a douchebag coach trying to fight fans in the parking lot, and a JAG lineman yapping (wrongly) to the media while a couple of 3-star Texas D tackles who are day 1 NFL picks - and who are about to give him a 5-star prison rape… For you to come here and lecture us about fixing our broken “culture” … Fuck off.
  23. Bush-league psych out stuff.
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