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USC football: Official suspended for non-call on Mays
October 26th, 2009, 6:32 pm · 9 Comments · posted by Michael Lev, staff writer
The Pac-10 Conference has suspended an official for one game for missing a penalty call on Taylor Mays during the USC-Oregon State game on Saturday.
Mays ripped off James Rodgers‘ helment in the end zone, but no call was made. The Pac-10 did not name the official who’s being suspended, but Commissioner Larry Scott did issue this statement:
“Our members expect a high level of officiating in all our sports, and the conference office shares that expectation. We have taken this action in light of the blatant and dangerous nature of the missed call. We have full confidence in our highly trained and qualified staff of football officials, but they, like the coaches and players, are accountable and must meet the high expectations placed upon them.”
We’ll have reaction from Pete Carroll and others later tonight.
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I still didn’t see Mays grab the mask.
Do they expect refs to see every misbehavior on the field? Was the refs directly in front of Mays when he did this? Suspension is pretty deep.
If this doesn’t prove the Pac10 officiating crew’s institutional bias against USC, I don’t know what will. Blatant and dangerous penalties are regularly missed by the Pac10 refs when they are committed against USC, flags for imaginary USC penalties are a matter of course, and there has never been a single referree punished for any of this as far as I am aware. Yet the very first time a call is missed against a USC player, the ref is punished for not meeting the “high expectations” of the Pac10 commissioner. The whole group should be thrown out and replaced with… I don’t know, anybody as far as I’m concerned.
Jon,
No, not every misbehavior can be seen. However, when a helmet gets ripped off a player’s head in the endzone, immediately after scoring a touchdown, and two Pac-10 officials are looking directly at the player, and neither one calls a penalty, then tone or both deserve a suspension.
USCDPT1,
Please. Do you really think the Pac-10 refs are out to get USC? Give me a break. Pac-10 refs are equally horrible no matter who is playing.
As good as Taylor Mays is, he sure doesn’t scare opposing teams from throwing in his direction. It’s because he’s merely average defending the pass.
One of the points Pete Carroll made about this was, how could they single out just one official? It’s not as if he was out there by himself. EVERYONE could see it.
We hear no statement about suspensions for that embarrassing debacle of officiating at Notre Douche. NCAA officials are like keystone cops, run past the rape to cite the jaywalker. Pathetic.
Maybe this should be like the NFL, each game should be reviewed afterwards so hits like this can be punished accordingly. Since the ref
did not call it (and there is no way he did not see it) he should be suspended and Mays for making such a un-necessary hit.
Let me get this straight. They suspend the official for not throwing a flag on a dirty play, and the offending player — the one who committed the offense —- gets a pass?
Typical kissass handling of USC