Went back and watched the game video. Normally I don't care about the officiating as it evens itself out, but this was one of the poorest crew performances in some time.
Note I linked the videos to the specific plays, so they should open up in each video.
1. Crew Positioning - that was the worst communicating and out of position crew I have seen in
35 years of watching Purdue football. Guys making calls 30 yards away when people on top of the call see nothing. It seems like the back judge was 40 yards away.
2. First INT - that was a brutal no call where the Purdue receiver got tackled.
3. Offensive Pass Interference on the Northwestern grabbing the jersey - first can't believe how out of position the officials were, and 2nd, how the heck did they miss such an obvious call.
4. Personal Foul call - I get why they think they needed to call it, but the issue I had was that the officials were the cause of the penalty because they were terribly inconsistent, including:
5, Northwestern had some great trap * pulls, but it helps when they let your tackles hold onto the guy. Happened all night.
6. the 4th quarter fumble not reviewed -
How the heck did they not review that? They reviewed far less. If that was a goal line catch, it is a TD. He took 2.5 steps, adjusted the ball, and then dropped it then when he saw the defender go low. At a minimum, it requires a 2nd look.
Note I linked the videos to the specific plays, so they should open up in each video.
1. Crew Positioning - that was the worst communicating and out of position crew I have seen in
35 years of watching Purdue football. Guys making calls 30 yards away when people on top of the call see nothing. It seems like the back judge was 40 yards away.
2. First INT - that was a brutal no call where the Purdue receiver got tackled.
3. Offensive Pass Interference on the Northwestern grabbing the jersey - first can't believe how out of position the officials were, and 2nd, how the heck did they miss such an obvious call.
4. Personal Foul call - I get why they think they needed to call it, but the issue I had was that the officials were the cause of the penalty because they were terribly inconsistent, including:
- Extended Scrums - for several Northwestern runs, they let the scrum pile go on for 10 or 15 seconds even though the forward progress was stopped (other than some Bush pushing). Guys are going to then learn and adjust their clock; be decisive and consistent in how you call it. They let this go on, but with a reasonable whistle this would not have been an issue.
- "threw flag because Neal tossed the guy" - Watching the crew chief tell coach with sign language that he called it because of the toss backwards, claiming he was protecting the player was a farce. If so, why did he or the line judge not call it when Sparks was picked up an tossed of of bounds in a wrestling suplex move on the 5 yard line when we were driving to the south end zone in the 3rd period. That could have easily resulted in serious injury.
- Acting job - upon further review, that was an academy award winning acting job by their RB to sell it.
- A few play earlier, on the previous Purdue possession, they swallowed the whistle when Blaugh was tackled late into the Purdue bench. Don't give us this bs about protecting players then.
5, Northwestern had some great trap * pulls, but it helps when they let your tackles hold onto the guy. Happened all night.
6. the 4th quarter fumble not reviewed -
How the heck did they not review that? They reviewed far less. If that was a goal line catch, it is a TD. He took 2.5 steps, adjusted the ball, and then dropped it then when he saw the defender go low. At a minimum, it requires a 2nd look.
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