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I’d like to touch on the Oklahoma vs. Oregon game in a different light. Why is everyone crying so hard?

As a former athlete, you learn to accept most games as a whole of decisions that helped arrive at an outcome. People have a tendency to blame the buzzer shot or whatever the final conceivable chance play may be.

The fact is, Oklahoma gave the game away on a silver platter to Oregon. Even after the missed onside kick call, Oklahoma’s special teams couldn’t get it done and Oregon blocked the field goal.

There are a variety of ’shatter points’ in the game, and I think it’s funny that people focus on the missed onside-kick call and an even greater tragedy that athletes, coaches and administrative types are whining so viciously over the one and only thing that was out of their own control.

I guess we should all half-expect to see this out of an Oklahoma program that has been a BCS queen spinning out of control since giving us the worst national championship game to watch in many a long year when they were thumped by USC.

Maybe we’ll even see Ashley Simpson blame the PAC-10 officials for her horrible performance at the half-time show for that championship game too.

Pratice makes perfect.

EXperience is much valueable.

Haroon

Here’s mine:
It’s theoretially possible that the refs on the field simply blew the call badly… but by mistake! As for Gordon Riese, the same cannot be said. There were no technical glitches, and there was no “mistake”. His (likely permanent) leave of absence had more to do with the conference IMPOSING it than anything else. Here’s a quote from the Pac-10 Commissioner. Notice how he already refers to Riese in the past tense… “Gordon Riese had a distinguished 28-year career as a Pac-10 official and, with the exception of Saturday, had done a fine job as a replay official,” Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen said.

Oh yeah, one more thing about Gordo. It looks like he also lied on his resume. Check out his listing in the Portland State Hall of Fame:
http://goviks.com/images/hfgordon_riese.jpg

Notice that he claims to have played for the Kansas City Royals. When in reality, he never even played in the major leagues!
http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ra-ri.shtml

oh what a tangled web he weave…

Also remember that most people’s jobs allow them to do something, review it, have someone else look at it, then they review it again, etc. Refs have to make decisions on high-speed action, where they are often shielded from the action (sometimes their own fault, sometimes not). But again, they are making split-second decisions.

But having said all that: you are right, management (supervisors) have to take action when someone has not done their job properly.

You’re much more emotionally (and financially) connected to this issue. Obviously, I don’t own a sports team. But I have played and coached, so I know the heartache and frustration of bad refs, and bad calls, and no repercussions for those.