The film clearly shows the BYU fumbled the ball, but the head referee blew even the replay evidence.
A BYU film tech present at the scene -- those who assist the referees in making the review decisions -- has taken a lot of heat this week. The Mountain West Conference has blamed the head referee and him only.
According to the link to the radio station provided by this journalist, the talk show host commented "about BYU being dirty, racially motivated, and without honor."
On the "without honor" question, do football teams at religious schools like BYU, Notre Dame, and Southern Methodist University need to have a higher standard beyond the rules of the game?
I don’t consider that so “hate filled” or even one of the “most disturbing” things I ever heard on the radio.
The answer is emphatically “yes” - but that “yes” actually applies to all who play sports. The phrase “it’s not cricket” refers to the traditional requirement that a batsmen acknowledge when he is out even if the umpire does not signal so. Alas this tradition has gone by the board and has been taken over by replays.
In soccer also, there is an expectation that players acknowledge when they handled the ball or if the ball went out of bounds. It is simply a thing that gentlemen (or ladies) do.
Sports talk radio, the bottom of the food chain.
Ello doesn’t seem to like traditional American values to begin with, so I’m not surprised that carries over here. Yes, he HATES BYU, but he HATES everything about the area, including traditional values. Not to say that BYU is perfect or that SDSU wasn’t ripped off by the non-call.
I see nothing wrong with Chris Ello's comments. Their fans might be nice, but their football team makes the 1970's Oakland Raiders look like the cleanest team in football history.