[Husker] Shatel on Bo

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Mark Landin <marklandin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok NU got jobbed. But for Bo to state that the jobbing was PLANNED,
> and that the game officials COMPLIED with that plan, and that he knew
> about it ahead of time, is nothing short of a nuclear bombshell. Is
> that kind of misconduct not at least as shocking and egregious as
> misconduct by a player or coach?
>

Mark -  I think that was the position Mike was taking, but as I read the
article Sunday I got the impression that Bo meant that one of the officials
told him Nebraska was getting jobbed.  But I don't think, or at least I
didn't read it that way, that Bo meant the officials were *planning* it.  It
may have been a simple as an official responding to a question from the
sidelines - "yep, it looks like you're getting jobbed."  Remember, there
were legitimate calls on the field, but there were a few clearly and plainly
missed calls, calls in error, and a couple of mystery calls.  Not every
official has to agree with the rest of the crew a penalty is necessary, and
not every official blew calls that day.

I mean, we'd all love to believe that it was a conspiracy, but the facts
tend to suggest that we were penalty prone last year, though the aTm games
stands out as the glaring anomaly.  What is crystal clear is that the
Commissioner could view Martin's hit at OSU, see it as leading with his
helmet and worthy of a suspension, but couldn't see anything else the rest
of the year, including the yank on Burkhead's facemask and the forced
near-vasectomy on Cotton.  I think this whole thing reeks of the stench of
that office, but not necessarily that instructions were given to the league
officials to job Nebraska at aTm.  I just don't see that happening.

Maybe we should ask Shatel about what he thought Bo meant by that.  He had
the conversation with him.

Nick
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