NCAA football, 2013-14

[alfred russel]

Soooooooooooooooo

Uh

How bout them Buckeyes?

Hang with me for a bit longer, I'm about to convince Berkut that refs are biased.

Don't you have a mountain to climb or something?

Okay, I'll let it go.

[Rasputin]

You know, given his sudden in-depth interest in college football, I truly believe that AR is the poster formerly known as D4H.

he is

[Valmy]

Nobody said they were above any bias, I said the bias you imagine is in your imagination.

But by and large, yes, they are pretty good at evenhandedly evaluating what is happening on the field.

And just like if you came into a thread with the lawyers and started blabbing about how judges are routinely biased to such an extent that outcomes of cases are commonly influenced by that bias, and you know this because you just know...then yeah, you would largely get the same result you are getting from me from them, I imagine.

Shockingly, we have a legal system where judges aren't paid by the plaintiffs bar.

not totally true; the government pays their salaries, the plaintiff's bar funds their election campaigns

It is inevitable that every Languish thread will eventually get hijacked by Lawyers.

[grumbler]

How would you feel about being on trial in a country where their wasn't an independent judiciary, and the future employment status of the judge was dependent on the party trying you?

They are not independent, they are paid by people who work for the executive.  Their job status (being selected for higher judicial positions) is absolutely dependent on the executive and legislative branches.

Did it occur to you even once in the nine years you pretended not to be Dorsey that you might want to concede once in a while that you are wrong?  Bias exists in all human decision-making.  There is no more evidence that it is worse in Pac 12 officials (or any other officials, for that matter) than for any other human beings than there is evidence that Lloyd Carr go fired.

[Ed Anger]

Soooooooooooooooo

Uh

How bout them Buckeyes?

I love them candies.

[CountDeMoney]

You know, given his sudden in-depth interest in college football, I truly believe that AR is the poster formerly known as D4H.

he is

Only D4H could manage to take this thread and smear it with his own feces to the point that nobody can see through the windshield.

This thread: AGED

[dps]

I have to say that the fact that the PAC-12 insists on having its officials work all its OOC games (a demand that no other FBS conference makes AFAIK) does create unfortunate implications.  But it's certainly not proof of bias on the part of those officials.

[Valmy]

It is just the PAC's endless paranoia about the dreaded East Coast bias.

[derspiess]

I'm sure there are more, but I've caught a couple Facebook posts so far from Herd fans making the claim that the Auburn FG TD return was not the greatest NCAA play ever and that it was the last second play in which Marshall beat Xavier in 1971

[Valmy]

I'm sure there are more, but I've caught a couple Facebook posts so far from Herd fans making the claim that the Auburn FG TD return was not the greatest NCAA play ever and that it was the last second play in which Marshall beat Xavier in 1971

First of all the greatest NCAA play ever was stopping Lendale White on 4th and 2 in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

Secondly I am pretty sure Xavier only plays Basketball.

[CountDeMoney]

First of all the greatest NCAA play ever was stopping Lendale White on 4th and 2 in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

Wrong.  2007 Fiesta, Boise State's Statue of Liberty trumps that.   Suck it, Sooners.

[Barrister]

Single greatest football play ever was the Roughriders Defence getting called for having 13 men on the field when the Alouettes missed a dieing second game-winning  field goal, which allowed  the Als to score the FG on the re-kick and win the 97the Grey Cup.

[MadBurgerMaker]

USC might be stealing UWs coach:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/bruce-feldman/24315215/usc-to-hire-sarkisian

[alfred russel]

USC might be stealing UWs coach:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/bruce-feldman/24315215/usc-to-hire-sarkisian

The guy is barely over 500 at Washington.

[Valmy]

Well when he took the job they just had an 0-12 season.  He was not taking over a powerhouse here.