Beamer sent things in and clearly didnt get all he was looking for. I am wondering, has any league office (ACC, SEC, Big Ten, etc.) ever come out and said their officials really messed up and affected the game? Or have they ever told a coach it was a poorly officiated game? I know they dont want to open a can of worms about something being bad because then it is a free for all on officials. However, it seems there is absolutely NO accountability for officials. Just telling them they didnt do good enough to coach bigger games is not a big enough punishment. It makes me wonder if any league has ever told a coach their officials really messed up.
Question about coaches questioning officiating
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I seem to recall rare incidents in which a league openly admitted that a call was missed, but for the most part, they just circle the wagons and defend their own.
Officiating inquiries sent by schools to the league office are largely symbolic. For a school of our stature, they mean even less.
Officiating inquiries sent by schools to the league office are largely symbolic. For a school of our stature, they mean even less.
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All the tree huggers will have a hissy but my opinion is that, similar to giving non professional football players an rpo or whatever physics manual and expecting them to base their play on analysis and thought, football officials are given too much that is unnecessary to work with, and they keep trying to walk their way around this pretty much every season, until football becomes akin to an antelope trying to run past a pride of lions. The armchair fan then says you better 'teach' your players not to do this and not to do that, but it doesn't work that way; in a game like football, a violent game by its nature, players on the field are zoned in on the moment, in many cases the millisecond. The extra caveats (most targeting calls, the horse collar nonsense, oh yeah new rule quarterbacks are now protected as an endangered species, etc) do not come to mind in those moments and milliseconds; sorry, it doesn't. If its flagrant (and flagrant is like porn, you know it when you see it) or obvious (offsides etc) it should be called. If its a football play its not flagrant, otherwise its no longer football. To not do so puts the game in the hands of the officials who can do as they please, as demonstrated not only by ever increasing controversial judgement calls but by the lack of concern shown by the league offices. A properly officiated football game does not require flagging 23 'infractions.'
An SEC crew in the early 2000s was reprimanded and was not allowed to work a bowl game because of a bad call in a Georgia game. I think the call was blatantly bad and affected the outcome of the game. It wasn't a judgement call type thing, it was cut and dried.
Apparently being banned from working a bowl game is a big deal to officials. I guess they get paid more and get the travel perks for a bowl game.
Apparently being banned from working a bowl game is a big deal to officials. I guess they get paid more and get the travel perks for a bowl game.
Complaining to the league really serves no purpose outside of a possible moral victory and a slap on the wrist of the official. It still goes down as a loss. There is no asterisk in the record book beside the final score. No bowl will invite a five win team because the refs stole win number six via a bad call. Most penalties are judgement calls anyway. Coaches appealing to some replay center could be an option, but they could get it wrong, too. Maybe every penalty flag is just a suggestion to be either upheld or waived after video review! 
Complaining to the league really serves no purpose outside of a possible moral victory and a slap on the wrist of the official. It still goes down as a loss. There is no asterisk in the record book beside the final score. No bowl will invite a five win team because the refs stole win number six via a bad call. Most penalties are judgement calls anyway. Coaches appealing to some replay center could be an option, but they could get it wrong, too. Maybe every penalty flag is just a suggestion to be either upheld or waived after video review!
There is already precedent for this with every targeting penalty being reviewed.
The ACC fined him $5000 for criticizing, I believe, Big XII officials. It'd be interesting to see what the fine would be for making the same criticism of ACC officials.
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