[Husker] All's too quiet on the Western Front

[Pat]

George Rapp wrote:

>
> My biggest complaint with tonight's announcers is the overemphasis on the
> calls that didn't go ISU's way.  Sorry, guys, but that's football.  Even
> with instant replay, not all calls are going to be adjudicated perfectly.
>
I really don't recall the announcers harping on the officiating other 
than the absolutely horrible call that ruled an ISU touchdown to be out 
of bounds.  Additionally, there were more than a couple times when the 
announcers argued for calls that didn't go Nebraska's way, such as a 
play in the first half where pass interference should have been called.

And quite frankly, the announcers *need* to hammer the officials when 
stuff like this happens.  If not, then it will just get swept under the 
rug and replay refs/replay officials will continue to drop the ball.  
There's absolutely no excuse for the refs and the replay official to 
have missed ISU's touchdown.  I don't know what the problem was (lack of 
communication between the replay booth and the crew or straight 
incompetence), but that's the type of mistake that would get most people 
fired in the real world.

In the grand scheme of things,it's extremely unlikely that ISU even 
makes a game of it if that call goes their way.  They simply could not 
finish any of their drives in the 2nd half (that meaningless TD in 
garbage time notwithstanding).  And Nebraska went ultra-conservative on 
offense in the 2nd half.  If ISU cuts it to a 7-point game, we probably 
would have opened it up more and it becomes a completely different ballgame.

Nonetheless, I hate to see a call botched so horribly.