[Husker] Shatel on Bo

[David Strong]

There is a big difference between "Nebraska got jobbed" and "the refs stuck
it to Bo".  The first was a result of the second.

Dave

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> --
> "If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
> Anatole France
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