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Football: Tuesday reading
By Jonathan Okanes
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 10:03 am in Mid-week.
–My notebook today, focusing on Beau Sweeney’s grasp on the No. 2 quarterback job.
–Cal’s weekly game notes.
–Arizona State’s weekly game notes.
–Quotes from ASU coach Dennis Erickson’s weekly press conference.
–Quotes from ASU quarterback Danny Sullivan’s weekly press conference.
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October 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
About time…from Ted Miller’s blog – note how Taylor Mays is called out for an “blatant and dangerous” personal foul and a “stunningly obvious infraction.” Just about 20 cheap shots too late. Mays should be suspended.
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It appears that the SEC isn’t the only conference starting to take poor officiating seriously.
The Pac-10 has suspended a football official for one game for missing an obvious face mask call in Saturday’s Oregon State-USC game, commissioner Larry Scott announced Monday evening.
The play in question came in the end zone when Trojans safety Taylor Mays ripped the helmet off receiver James Rodgers’ head. Rodgers still held on to the 7-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.
“Our members expect a high level of officiating in all our sports and the Conference office shares that expectation,” Scott said in a statement. “We have taken this action in light of the blatant and dangerous nature of the missed call. We have full confidence in our highly trained and qualified staff of football officials, but they, like the coaches and players, are accountable and must meet the high expectations placed upon them.”
It was a stunningly obvious infraction.
“I don’t understand what they can’t see here,” said ABC colorman Craig James.
The Pac-10 did not release the name of the suspended official. The Oregonian reported that the crew included referee Jay Stricherz, umpire Doug Wilson, linesman Edwin Walker, line judge Jeff Robinson, back judge M. Aaronian, field judge Jeffrey Bell and side judge Aaron Santi.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:39 am
my guess is that it’s a symbolic suspension to make us think they’re monitoring these officials. like the florida and alabama officials, they’re either fans of the teams they’re officiating, or they’re getting paid off. there’s no other explanation. we all know this is the case. cal has benefitted from a few of these bogus calls since tedford arrived as well. you rationalize it because of the nba garbage about “respect.” it’s total bs. it’s ruining the game.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Mays wasn’t called for a late, cheap shot on a prostrate DeSean Jackson a couple years back, either. It was a cheap shot. He’s a dirty player.
Notice anything about all these zebra controversies? They are always in favor of conference powerhouses and against lower ranked teams like Tennessee, Mississippi State and Oregon State. Seems like the BCS and ESPN have put out the word that they want the powers in the big games. They want no losses for Florida, Alabama or USC.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Pug Says:
October 27th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Mays wasn’t called for a late, cheap shot on a prostrate DeSean Jackson a couple years back, either. It was a cheap shot. He’s a dirty player.>>>>>>>>>>> It was Keith Ellison who nailed MeSean and MeSean wasn’t prostrate. He was running a pattern right down the middle of the field and your QB hung him out to dry. It was clean hit an done of the best I have seen before the 2008 game when Taylor de-helmetted about 4 of your players.