Posted on 09/18/2006 2:43:59 PM PDT by Dead Dog
NORMAN, Okla. -- University of Oklahoma president David Boren sent a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg on Monday, asking him to push for the Sooners' game against Oregon to be eliminated from the record books and have the Pac-10 officials involved in the game suspended for the remainder of the season
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2593369
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Couple thoughts:
1. Does OU want to erase any game that may have been turned by a "bad call"
2. I originally thought it was a bad call, after watching the vid a couple of times, it looks like a sooner had a piece of it. Inconclusive at best, call on the field stands
Hey OU, don't give up 500+ yards.
You can "want" in one hand and crap in the other. See which one fills up first.
This is just playing to the home crowd.
Go OU!
We were ROBBED!!!!
Boren for President!!
Boren is a Rat, is he still calling for a recount of the 2000 election?
Consider the financial impact between playing in a BCS bowl and a non-BCS bowl. (assuming OU wins out.... which is still questionable). This is about a huge financial impact on what was clearly a "setup". A cheat. An intentional cheat.
Dead Dog.....You are just plain wrong here.....not even close. The Oklahoma team was jobbed the whole game and especially on the onside kick.
Hard one for any good sport to swallow and especially when the evidence is that conclusive
Will OU vacate their national titles won under the Barry Switzer era.
David Boren...get over it. Yes, bad calls and you probably shouldn't have lost. I don't disagree with some punishment for the officials either as a part of their normal weekly reviews.
But void the game...don't think so.
Wow, someone can't handle losing! You would think that this was the first bad call in the history of the sport.
Losing hurts......especially to a team named the Ducks....and whose mascot is Donald Duck.
There's no way they throw out the game. But go watch the clip again.
You report. We decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIn1mNmgDjc&mode=related&search=
With editorial comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQNw24AiZEI
I think Stoops should , in this one instance, follow the advice of George Soros and MoveOn.
Yeah, the calls were questionable, but you can't set a precedent that games can be voided because of the officials.
A team name Sooner bitching about fairness. L Oh Frigging L
You mean Pac-10 officials decided the game for Oregon? I'm shocked and stunned!
I think Boren is right on this. He won't win, but you can't let a cheating officiating squad go unpunished.
They should just use refs as spotters and call the penalities from the booth.
LSU got robbed against Auburn this past weekend too.
Sooner or later some school will sue some conference over a bad call that costs them a lot of money.
John
David Boren is and was a US DEM Senator for OK!
What about the two National Championships in the 70's you "won" by cheating and recruiting illegal players? Not to mention giving the players cars, bonuses, etc.
I agree you can't set precedent, but what is the purpose of having instant replay if the guy in the booth screws up?
Well this is the official announcement that OU sucks this year.
98 playoffs...
Maybe they should have used those Big12 officials from the Missouri - Colorado game.
First down
second down
third down
fourth down
and on the fifth down Colorado scores.
LOL
I wish Boren had have gotten so worked up when the little islamist exploded outside the stadium last year.
Far more important and much more lethal than any referee.
LOL!! Cheaters are complaining about being cheated. Oh the irony!
I can't wait for my Horns to kick them back across the Red River in a couple of weeks!
A cheating official? Please. Cheating requires intent. You're trying to tell me that he intended this to happen?
By the way, maybe cover the WR...was he that wide open because of the official?
By the way, make the tying FG...did the official blow really hard to make the kick miss?
Come on, you guys are ridiculous. Yeah, they were bad calls but you make it sound like a grassy knoll was involved and there was some kind of intent. Give me a break.
Both teams had chances. OU missed a tying FG. The TD they gave up to Oregon was pathetic the guy was so wide open.
They can use the instant replay for that purpose. And they can clearly see that OU recovered the fumble. How do they miss that? It wasn't even close, or tied up with two players.
Yes I'm telling you it was intent.
Actually the finances are not an issue. The only way they could be is if Oklahoma were to be eligble for one of the 2 at large bids.
If they win out, they are Big 12 champs and are in the BCS automatically, they would have to lose another game to not win the Big 12 and yet get an at large bid. Considering the number of quality one win teams there will be this year, they will not get an at large bid.
So finances has nothing to do with it.
And don't forget that the Big 12 already shares that money anyway.
How many times do you see them give the ball to the team that didn't recover it? When was the last time you saw that happen?
..cheating is an intentional act......do you know that to be a fact?.....this sounds like Dems whining to me. I'm not an Oregon fan, but they got screwed a few years ago out of a BCS bowl with only one loss since the Pac-10 gets robbed many times from the East Coast elite....
The rumor now is that the replay official was Gordon Riese. If this is the case, the blown replay calls are a result of gross incompetence, not bias. From another message board (I also posted it on the Saturday thread):
The correct spelling of the official's last name is RIESE. Additionally, Gordon Riese is far from being a respected official in any normal D-IA conference sense. He is best known for being a part of the officiating crew that called "The Play" between Cal and Stanford in 1982. However, in recent years he has been relegated to the replay booth, as would be right to assume, because he got older(he's 66), his eyes blurier, mind duller, and his legs a tad slower. He got stuck upstairs because, to put it bluntly, he was f*cking up so many calls on the field. That's right...Mr. Riese's bad calls started a riot in a WSU vs WU in a 2002 game and he single handidly gave a game to USC against UCLA in 2004. At first the Pac-10 tried demoting Mr. Riese from Referee to Line Judge but even then the complaints regarding his officiating became to numerous for even the Pac-10 to ignore. They eventually forced him to 'retire' by placeing him behind a replay screen. He resides in Beaverton, OR and is a graduate of Portland State. Oh, and he wears Nike Airs.
I guess this guy's been screwing up PAC 10 conference games for years.
Maybe, maybe not. Let's wait and see.
Baloney. You're the only person I've seen yet to claim that. Oregon clearly recovered the ball.
I think it's likely that Oregon touched the ball prior to it going 10 yards, but so did an OU player.
Oregon recovered.
Whether they were required to rekick the ball, I don't know. But it wasn't OU ball.
The big 12 does share in the money. That's why Boren went to the big 12 first. It effects them too.
You haven't seen the video. It wasn't even close. The ball wasnt in the pile up. It rolled out before anybody got it.... and was covered by Patrick. The video shot from the endzone is clear.
It's not going anywhere. Trust me.
And if the Big XII did something like that, it would open a complete Pandora's box.
The videos in post 11 (particularly the 2nd one) suggest OU recovered the ball.
Reminds me of last year's Super Bowl. Go Seahawks.
ping for later
Oregon deserved to win that game as much as the 1972 Soviet basketball team. Just like 1972, let it go.
This was infinitely more obvious than any call in the Super Bowl.
Except for that offensive PI. That was on the same level.
They'v been showing the video's all weekend here in OKC. OU recoverd the ball... and the refs gave it to Oregon. Again... I ask.... when was the last time anybody saw that happen. Watch the video... then reply.
Looked to me like a Duck recovered the ball actually. Now, did he touch it before 10 yards...yup. But recover it...looked like a Duck to me.
Now to the other poster...incompetence...perhaps. That's a better argument than Kjam22 is making saying it was intent. At least you guys are becoming more coherent....now about those Barry Switzer days....
Good old Barry Switzer, I actually miss the days when he was coaching the Cowboys, it was never boring. And he gives the best interviews, especially when he tells the stories about his days coaching at OU. When he used to give interviews on The Ticket, beforehand they would give the over/under on how many times Barry would say "Hell" or "Damn."
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