71Bear said:
CAL4LIFE said:
scored a touchdown on the last drive. It didn't matter because Cal won with a FG. But does it bother anyone here that in 2019 the P12 still has incompetent officials who can't make definitive decisions on obvious calls, and that replay setups for P12 games are inferior to other conferences?
There was no conclusively definitive shot that showed him over the goal. Therefore, the call on the field must stand. I had no argument with that. I simply could not tell if the ball crossed the goal line.
Quite frankly, I thought it was one of the better officiated games. Based just on this game, it appears the work the P12 is doing is finally paying off. A big shoutout to Ray Anderson, former NFL officiating executive and current ASU AD, for taking the lead on fixing the problem.
I had no problem with the call itself, but a statement and a complaint:
1. 9 times out of ten when you see what you could see, it is a touchdown. You can't call it based on what usually happens. You have to see the ball cross the plane. I think if the ref could see it and if we could see it, we would probably see that the ball crossed the plane. But we couldn't see it so the call is down.
2. Complaint - why couldn't we see it? There should always be a camera on both sides of the goal line. Certainly there should be when a team is in a goal to go situation. Why were the camera angles so poor? The call stood on the field because there wasn't a camera angle that was even close to showing the play or that frankly ever could have shown the play. I don't remember a play that had such bad camera angles which is even more ridiculous when you consider it was obvious the play was either going to be a kneel or us running it up the middle and trying to plow over the goal line.