Dom Amore: A ‘no call’ spoils UConn’s day, but shouldn’t flush Huskies season

[huskymedic]

-> Jim Mora didn’t avail himself of the usual “cooling off period” after UConn’s 23-20 loss to Wake Forest.

No, he entered the interview room just a few minutes after the final gun and he was neither cooled off, nor lukewarm, nor smoldering. It was Fire … balllll:

“Okay, well, what I told the team is: ‘I’m proud of them for fighting back. We’ve got to make sure that we put ourselves in a position where it doesn’t come down to one play where an ACC (officiating team) team makes a horse (bleep) call against an independent, and that’s up to us to play better at the start of the game so it doesn’t come down to that call, which was holding and (pass interference).’ And that’s what I told them, we’ll come back, and we’ll fight, so it’s on us to play better earlier. But it’d sure be nice if it was a level playing field.” <-

 

[AzHusky]

I'm guessing as the home team we pay the officiating team, I think DB should tell the ACC the check will be delivered if and when you can explain to me how that call at the end of the game (PI) was acceptable. Until that happens don't hold your breath waiting for UConn to pay for that joke of an officiating team.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Might as well hire CIAC refs

 

[uconnfan68]

Might as well hire CIAC refs

No reason to let ACC do our games. It doesn’t work like that for independents.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Why do we have to hire ACC refs for those games? This is completely horsesh@t. Who do Notre Dame use for refs for home games? I suspect ACC would be scared to piss off ACC refs.

Why can't UConn use refs from the MAC for example?

 

[gtcam]

Benedict has a lot of questions to answer
What's the odds he does?

 

[Patman]

Why do we have to hire ACC refs for those games? This is completely horsesh@t. Who do Notre Dame use for refs for home games? I suspect ACC would be scared to piss off ACC refs.

Why can't UConn use refs from the MAC for example?

If we do sign with the b12 at any point I would demand they provide us referees for football going forward if we have to remain independent.

 

[Woof 101]

Why can't UConn use refs from the MAC for example?

It's all part of the contract when signing on for the game. At this point UConn has no gravitas and has to accept the opponents conference officials to get the game. We are in a double suckatation situation, sad to say.

 

[uconnbill]

UConn needs to be in a conference so this crap doesn't happen. If the officials had called the play as they should have, UConn would have had at least another few plays. Let the players decide not the officials

 

[LoyalFanCT]

What if UConn joins the ACC? Will the refs still be bias for the Southern teams?

 

[WestCoastHusky]

This is the second time this season ACC refs have screwed UConn. UConn had the chance to win both of those games.

 

[ScottVib]

What if UConn joins the ACC? Will the refs still be bias for the Southern teams?

The bias will be towards the higher ranked teams. Ive seen that there are at least a few teams that felt the refs gave Miami the boost against them (most notably Virginia Tech).

 

[gioff2323]

The bias will be towards the higher ranked teams. Ive seen that there are at least a few teams that felt the refs gave Miami the boost against them (most notably Virginia Tech).

That was the league intervening in VT game. The officials called a TD. The league saw their prized playoff team in jeopardy and rescued them. But it’s a league fixated on stealing whatever they can in their last few years of relevance.

 

[ZooCougar]

The no call didn't spoil it.

Getting into that position in the first place did. A false start on a more manageable 4th and 3 did it.

I can't moan about a bad call when the team did almost everything they could to lose.

 

[Stray_Dog]

The no call didn't spoil it.

Getting into that position in the first place did. A false start on a more manageable 4th and 3 did it.

I can't moan about a bad call when the team did almost everything they could to lose.

were you at the game?

 

[Huskygamble19]

Refs really are out to ruin the game with their non-calls. this going to get old and it not fun when opportunities are taken away with an obvious favoritism play is not called correctly.

 

[ZooCougar]

were you at the game?

Does it matter?

The OC also didn’t know it was 4th down because he listened to the stadium announcer.

He would have been better off calling the game via zoom.

 

[Ha Who]

If you are kicking arse, no need to worry about refs

 

[Stray_Dog]

Does it matter?

The OC also didn’t know it was 4th down because he listened to the stadium announcer.

He would have been better off calling the game via zoom.

It does matter, because I was there screaming my lungs out at the no holding calls, Questioning the ball positions... and if we as fans sitting in the visitor sections could see it.... see all the things happening and trying to react to them fast enough.... I don't blame the coaches, imagine if PP was at the helm like he was over a decade ago. OMG we lose this thing by over 40+.

 

[kemba]

If you are kicking arse, no need to worry about refs

If we were playing a bottom 10 team in the country and were favored to win by 28 and it came down to this play that would be a fair argument.

This was a game against a p4 team that was essentially a pick em. It was expected to come down to just a couple plays. Missing an obvious call like that, as well as other bad calls that happened too are going to impact at matchup like this

 

[uconnfan68]

What if UConn joins the ACC? Will the refs still be bias for the Southern teams?

3 guesses, first 2 don’t count.

 

[Viet Vet]

Move on. This venting is going nowhere, like it or not.

 

[Chin Diesel]

A whole bunch of bad looking takes in this thread.
The road team almost always supplies the refs from their conference.
And you can guarantee if a P4 team goes on the road against G5 or an indy, they are bringing their refs.
AD David Benedict can put up a fight and the result will be no P4 team will visit the Rent.
The real effect is UConn doesn't get to bring its refs when it goes on the road and there's no conference office for AD David Benedict to call and yell at when UConn gets hosed.

 

[giddyup]

I’d demand neutral officials with Cuse or I’d cancel the game. The corrupt officiating needs to stop and somebody needs to make a statement.

 

[gioff2323]

There’s an assumption that refs are unbiased. They are not. They’ve never been and never will be. Look at sports headlines today - you’ve got WNBA finals enduring a NY victory; if u watched the UGa-bevo game, you’ve seen something we’ve never heard of and will likely spur more fans to take games in to their own account. You think you’re getting unbiased refs for a UConn-Wake game?

It was a terrible call, but we went in to that game thinking we were the favorite. We played like we spent a lot of time at the pool in between games.

We need to adopt an us against the world mentality, because it’s the reality we live. We’ve been left behind for no legitimate reason, effectively forced to play Indy, and don’t even have home field refs.

Stop expecting things from folks who have no incentive to give us a foot, literally. Stop thinking refs are not human, and not influenced.