re: Big ten statement is out and audio of referees discussing the timing on field

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Yep. Who had the right time? Was it NBC - who swears their broadcast clock was synced with the game clock - or the replay booth owned and operated by the Big Ten?

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Was the Big 10 clock showing 9-10 seconds on the clock before the play started? frick them for releasing this half arse info that doesn't address the issue. It just creates more conspiracies.

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Don't care. Release the audio between the head ref and the replay official at the Big Ten offices.

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Yes they should release the ENTIRE discussion from go

So the officials got it right. The clock on TV was incorrect.

Defend a Hail Mary and WMU still wins.

That is the longest second I've ever seen. Watching the side by side, the clock is at 0:01 while the player is in the blue of the end zone. It's still at 0:01 as he steps into the white, and it's still at 0:01 as he begins to jump. Even crazier is that it's still at 0:01 when he makes the reception. It finally hits 0:00 as he is descending and his feet are almost back on the ground.

The two images may have started out synced, but they are clearly being played back at 2 different speeds. This is why the broadcast shows time being expired and this replay explanation showing something completely different

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If a player jumps from touching OOB and touches the ball first, that doesn't kill the play. It’s illegal touching, but not a dead ball if the player is in the air as suggested by the bullshite statement.

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We do need to get the rules right at least. A defender who goes out of bounds and doesn’t re-establish is considered an out of bounds players. And if an out of bounds player is the first one to touch the ball it immediately kills the play. The rules are different for offense and defense.

But the clock was 0:00 when he touched it so it doesn’t matter.

How is this even arguable.

The Refs VERBALLY said to set the clock at 9 seconds after Michigan’s prior play of spiking the ball.

9 seconds is 9 seconds. It’s not 8.1, 8.2, 8.5.

The announcers even commented that they’d likely get 2 shots into the end zone.

If you use a stop watch, and time the play yourself from snap to the end of the play, it takes less than 9 full seconds. Therefore, there would be time for another play.

Forget what the clock is saying. Just time it yourself.

Nothing natters unless its overturned. Playoff committee would consider it a loss if they were in discussion

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If you use a stop watch, and time the play yourself from snap to the end of the play, it takes less than 9 full seconds. Therefore, there would be time for another play.

Forget what the clock is saying. Just time it yourself.

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So are you saying both the game clock and the broadcast clocks were wrong…and the only clock that was correct was the one in the ref’s pocket?

That somehow, both the game clock and broadcast clocks were slightly fast…but the ref knew the right time?

And he only came to this conclusion at the end of the 4th? Didn’t notice this discrepancy at the end of the three other quarters?

Mate, pan back a bit and tell me that you don’t see BS smeared over all of this.

The clock on the field is the official clock unless the on field official declares a different one should the on field clock malfunction. No such declaration was made. You cannot have multiple clocks and then pick the one you like best.

Someone said there was a clock in the press box that showed like .3 of a second, and that's what they went with. horseshite to that.

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That somehow, both the game clock and broadcast clocks were slightly fast…but the ref knew the right time?

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Michigan spikes football.
Clock runs.
Review is made and referees says “Clock operator please reset the game clock to 9 seconds”

There should have been 9 full seconds of game time left.

However, based on the clock NBC was using, that clock was not set to 9 seconds. It was 8.2 at most given how quickly the first numbered second elapsed.

Referees do keep the time on the field.

Using these FACTS;
#1. Refs stating there should be 9 seconds left after the prior play was over.

#2. From the snap of the ball to when the player touched the ball after jumping from out of bounds (which then deadens the play), there was less than 9 seconds that elapsed. My stopwatch showed 8.3 when I did it at game speed.

Therefore there should have been time left,

I think what all the idiot downvoters aren’t understanding is that the refs verbally told the clock operator to set the clock at 9 seconds. They think the prior play was just some normal clock stoppage play and there’d be no way of knowing if the 9 secs was really 8.2. Well, that is a void argument when the Refs gave a clear instruction on what the time should have been (9 seconds).

To me, the Michigan Stadium clock operator did not set the clock to 9 seconds, and that is what NBC was using. That’s why the first second ran off so fast.

When you time the play yourself and clearly see the play took less than 9 seconds, I don’t know what the controversy is.

Because trust me. If that play had taken more than 9 seconds in stopwatch time it’d be all over the internet. But it didn’t. It took less therefore there had to have been time left on the clock.