Thoughts on Big 12 officiating last night?

What did you think about that personal foul on loston? I need to rematch that call without a full day of drinking. I thought it was bullshite last night but that's why I am asking here. Was it legit?

I thought overall they were above average.

I thought they did pretty well. There were mistakes but none more than you would expect from an average crew. They handled all the replay situations competently and efficiently, which is always important.

It was sort of hard to tell becase ABC did a poor job of replaying the penalties, but I did think that the Loston penalty was a bit picky and the holding call on the long pass completion, if it was on Lonergan, then that was a BS call.

I thought they were on the take after calling 3 penalties against Oregon on the first possession including the kickoff return.

why does lsu always have to play on abc?

I thought the game was called decently. I won't go into some of the calls because they have been discussed previously here. One no call I wondered about was on Oregon's first td drive. DeAnthony Thomas had a catch on third down to convert an he immediately jumped up and threw the ball straight up into the air. I thought that was supposed to be an automatic unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. My comparison would be the game several years ago where Washington lost to BYU. Locker scored a td and threw the ball. The XP was moved back 15 yards and then was blocked.

Agreed, I would like more replay. ABC didn't do worth a shite in that department. I thought it was good. As others have mentioned, it wasn't lonergan...but there was holding. I'd be pissed if there wasn't a hold, but just messing up the player is ok.

they suck at spotting the ball

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They called a great game.

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I totally agree. It felt as if they were actually non-partial toward either team, and right or wrong in every call, I had a sense of overall fairness - which, given that we usually are at the mercy of SEC officiating, was really refreshing.