SEC SUSPENDS ARK/UF CREW--NATION'S EYES TURN TO RON CHERRY

Take the Pac-10 Crew that “worked” the USC-ND Game, Please…Dept:

USC had to beat ND twice this past Saturday, due in part, to a Pac-10 officiating crew that….
….let’s just say…made a series of shintsy calls against USC during crucial times…..

…The USC-ND Clown Crew of Officials could be sent to the SEC so this conference can continue with having the best of everything in the college footbaw world….
…best boneheads….

“Beat ND twice this past Saturday”

So now SKLM figures U$C was a combined 3-1 against ND in 2005 and 2008???

Maybe it’s east coast bias that keeps the ACC in the forefront, I don’t know, but after five years of looking, nobody’s officials have more cause to come out on the field with a dog and a white cane than those of the Pac-1. The real craziness is that, as often as not, they will make calls in intersectional games that kill their own teams rather than the outsiders (e.g. Jake Locker, USC-ND ’09, etc).

Short of getting another bowl game on January 1, the best thing that conference can do is launch their current officiating administration into the sun.

Blame it on the hamthrax…2005 and 2009.

I don’t know who to assign as an officiating crew, but I do know another way to “stopp up the process with a thousand unnecessary, ticky-tack, and occasionally negligent calls, slowing the game to the point of actually shaving plays off the game with slothlike supervision.”

So there’s this heavily-eyeshadowed announcing crew up in Indiana on Saturdays…

“TOUCHDOWN!!!!……Excuse me, incomplete pass. Incomplete pass to Golden Tate. Second down now.”

Please ignore the man behind the curtain.

“launch their current officiating administration into the sun”

Along with Rosie O’Donnell, Tom Arnold, Paulie Shore and whatever else of the left coast we can lose.

Luckily for Gator fans BCS computers pay absolutely no attention to post game crew suspensions.Or U$C Song girls or whatever else floats 1 loss teams ahead of Iowa and Boise.

2005 vs. 2008 Dept:

1. 2 – Both of these games were classics…but, the Bush-Push game was better. This last game was not too shabby either, though.

No BS Dept:

1. 8 – Anon: If you think Boise or Iowa is better than USC, then you probably also think Charlie has salads (with NO ranch dressing) for lunch and is just big-boned.

We’ll loan you an ACC crew to take care of measuring for first downs.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTfCI-tJy_Y

1. 10 – You have no idea how the ranch dressing dominates the eating habits of South Bend. Work at a Hacienda there, and you will know that ranch can come in 32 oz. plus containers.

No BS Part Two Dept:

I once saw this lady at a restaurant once take a bite of food, then she spritzed dressing directly in her mouth!

I was so grossed out…I almost dropped my handful of mashed potatoes…(heeeee..heeee…heeeee…)

…she did that everytime she took a chunk of food to her mouth…..

I once served a lady who finished four 2/3 pound cheeseburgers in an hour as part of a Hacienda Challenge, and then ordered the chocolate lava cake for dessert.

Please, please, please take Ron Cherry away from the ACC. When the ACC crew botched the clock at halftime in the GT-UNC game, I suggested that all ACC officials be fired. The guy next to me came up with a great way to deal with Cherry: fire him, rehire him, and then fire him again. I would greatly enjoy being rid of him, even more so if he’s messing up SEC games.

I was witness to the greatness of Ron Cherry last Saturday at SMU-Navy. Unfortunately no business was given.

@SKLM and anon

I’ll assume you both mean “2005 and 2009.” Unfortunately, the worst Pac-10 refs in the history of Pac-10dom
couldn’t get Notre Dame a first down in 2008. And regardless of what color you were wearing that day, I’m sure
it was a snoozer. I didn’t even watch it, and I was bored by it.

The Big 12 is looking to hire this “quality” team of officials.

Of course that officiating crew is coming back on the 14th. Someone’s got to hose the Bulldogs when we play Auburn.

Those who do not witness them week in and week out have no concept of the suckitude of ACC refs. It’s not just that they blow calls; most of that whining is from biased fans who are mad their team didn’t get the benefit of a judgment call. No, ACC refs fail in the most basic knowledge of the rules. Clocks are not stopped on first downs, flags are thrown on players who are sitting on the bench, blantantly illegal subsitution violations are ignored. But worst of all, this takes FOREVER. Every, single, freaking call requires a huddle of every official on the field. I wouldn’t mind them sucking so much, if they’d just suck FASTER.

Ack says:

The Big 12 is looking to hire this "quality" team of officials.

Amen, brother. I’m almost pining for the days of Steve “Useless” Usecheck. Almost.

The only thing worse than ND fans complaining about the refs in losing to U-M is USC complaining about the refs in beating ND.

you should have seen how terrible Cherry’s crew was at that SMU-Navy game last weekend. I’ll sum it up in one play. On a kick return, a SMU player basically suplexed a Navy player. The call? Personal foul on Navy.

They should use the Big East crew that saw fit to give ND one more shot at the end zone against USC this year. ‘Cause that wasn’t blatant at all…nope, no way.

Y’all haven’t seen bad until you’ve seen a MAC crew. If you think the broadcast teams they assign to our games are bad, mute the volume for a few minutes and take a good look at the zebras.

(BTW, that Ron Cherry clip is still one of the best sports-related clips I’ve ever seen on YouTube.)

1. 8- I think the “whatever else” you are referencing is not flailing around against 1-AA and bottom of the barrel Sun Belt/WAC teams for four quarters.

The Big 12 will gladly donate Jon Bible and Randy Christal to the SEC. Although you should be warned that all games will be called in manner to help Texas make it to the title game. Late hits on QB’s not named Colt are entirely acceptable.

College football is filthy with this crap. No doubt in my mind that Curles was bought and paid for after those calls. Suspensions? There ought to be public executions.

I hear the Big 10’s Stephen Pamon, the delightful fellow who butchered the 2007 Ohio State-Illinois travesty, is available. Yahoo! Sports revealed that this guy was a first-class scumbag — a child abusing sexual predator with a major-league gambling problem that forced him into bankruptcy (to the tune of $400,000). But hey, he got Illinois a win and helped grease the skids for the Big 10 to put two teams in BCS Bowls (Illinois got fed to USC in the Rose). Jim Delaney approves!

every conference thinks that their officials are the worst in all of football.

the difference in the acc and the rest of football, however, is that acc fans are right.

SKLM, If U$C beats Oregon then and only then is there a shred of evidence to put one loss U$C ahead of Boise. As for Iowa if they win out every computer will have them ahead of U$C. In which case past glory and the Coaches’ figure skating approach to judging is their only hope.

USC vs Boise State Dept:

1. Right now all of the college footbaw world not run by the #!$!@ computers (Coaches, Writers (AP), Harris (BCS humans), Legends, blah, blah, blah) have USC ahead of Boise at number 4.

Why reward Boise, who plays powerhouses from conferences below Div I-A, such as UC Davis?

And Iowa…yes, they are having a good run…but, it is about to come to an end soon as they start to play teams with a pulse.

Do not worry, lots of football left, and this thing has a good chance of getting of getting sorted out soon enough – or so I’d like to think so…..

SKLM, U$C beats Oregon and I think the computers and the human can agree USC > Boise, But right now putting 1 loss U$C ahead is pulling it from butts that computer don’t have.

Your silence suggest that if Iowa wins through there would be no case for a 1 loss U$C ahead of them.

I dunno, Ed. I’ll have to watch more ACC football before I’m convinced anyone can bungle a game like Big 10 refs can. When you’ve got the Midwestern Mussolini, Jim Delaney, running your league, there’s a lot of open field for incompetence.

My point though, is that bad officials aren’t really the problem. Crooked conferences are. The way the bowl payouts and BCS works, it almost demands that conferences try and shape the outcome of games. Look no further than the ridiculous West Virgina vs. Pitt contest in 2007. Pitt was a pathetic, 4-and-7 ballclub in the depths of a Wannstachian meltdown, while West F’n Virginia had to win just one more game (they were a 28.5 point favorite, mind you) to parade into the NC game.

We all know how that ended, a shocking 13-9 win for Pitt. And I think a lot of us remember those two egregious, phantom holding penalties late in the game that gave WVU second chances. The Big East officials were working hard late in the game to get their conference in the NC game. And I think Curles and crew were doing the EXACT same thing for Florida and the SEC last week. Gotta keep those top-rated teams on top.

Iowa Dept:

In Los Angeles, we have Long Beach, which used to be known as Iowa by the Beach….I think.

Unlike you, I agree with the college footbaw world cognoscenti that a one-loss USC is better than a zero loss Iowa team (way weaker conference). Remember, Iowa beat Northern Iowa by a point. I have never even heard of “Northern Iowa”. Do they play “Southern Iowa” next year, or “East-west Iowa”, …ah, this bit is getting old…

Bye the way…what a burn on USC by adding your dollar sign. Man, that stings…Ha!

SKLM, Nice try. If Iowa goes undefeated (big IF like SoCal beating Oregon) that 18-15 SIGNATURE win over tOSU is a very low bar, isn’t it. How do you pronounce the $ sign in cogno$centi, anyways?

I’ll join everyone else in throwing the ACC officiating under the bus. I used to think the Big East had terrible officiating but that was before I spent my football life in the ACC week-in and week-out. They are slow. They miss blatant holds and there is no consistency what so ever in what constitutes roughing or helmet-first calls. They botch the clock, they miss delay of game penalties, etc.

Generally lousy all around except for the bright spot that is Cherry’s “Business” clip on YouTube. I love that shit.

@28 RaiderEngineer

Please don’t send any old SWC officials who like Texas to the SEC. If those guys are allowed to team up with Marc Curles’ crew, Arkansas will likely never win another game.

UGA-UF nows gets good ole Penn Wagers I bet. Because he has no dog in this fight…none at all.