This Game is Rigged

Hawksfor3

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Anyone want to guess what happened next?


 

steveo.usc

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
 

rfgiowa

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
Come on now...not every Iowa fan! Good game...good luck. You will need it playing the quacks.
 
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HAWKNESS

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
Good game and good luck next weekend. Usc certainly outplayed Iowa in 2nd half. Simultaneously referees were bad. If you're not going to call obvious 15 yard penalties creating 1st and 10 vs 3rd down the chances to score decrease. Had they not called the pass interference calls on Iowa which were fair calls USC's chances to score also decrease. Multiple things can be true and nobody sounds pathetic.
 
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TweeterHawk

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I was able to watch only part of the first quarter and then had to do something else and missed the rest of the game. From the little I saw early there were a lot of erroneous spots that favored USC and were to the detriment of the Hawks. Sounds like that was the case the rest of the game.
 

Kceasthawk@77

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Shouldn't there have been a sideline warning first?

Full quote: "Looked to me like one of our assistants got on the field and literally stepped over the line. That’s that.”


You mean like how Riley and his assistant were celebrating ON the field in the last 30 seconds and the ref came over and gently nudged them back over the line? Like that?
 

HawkeyeGenius

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
I don't think they sound pathetic at all. The officiating crew swallowed their whistle on a lot of USC penalties yesterday. Would it have made a difference? We'll never know. I do know it was one of shittiest officiated games I've seen in a long time.
 

DukeSlater

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He didn't "slide out of bounds". He jumped when he didn't need to, otherwise he lands in bounds. Late pass + unnecessary jump = incompletion.
You missed the point, which is that USC had nothing to do with a multitude of bad calls and bad bounces for Iowa that played huge roles in the outcome of the football game.
 

DukeSlater

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
Well, sure, except that it's easier to score, and stop the other team from scoring, if the actual rules of the game are objectively enforced. There were TWO egregious face mask penalties NOT called on USC. That's 30 yards the Iowa offense deserved but was cheated out of. And then there was the other 15 yards on the clear, obvious hit on Wetjen out of bounds when a flag was thrown, but then picked up with the explanation that hitting Wetjen out of bounds was "legal."

How about we play the game by the rules and then see how the helll it turns out? Wanna give that a try? Take your bullshitt elsehwere.
 

DukeSlater

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What a bunch of complainers, the officials cost Iowa the game!

Make the plays needed to win. One TD in the second half might have won the game, instead, the offense went away.
Hey, fool, they have rules for a reason. When the rules are applied against one team and not the other, it's bullshitt. Many posters have shown you the evidence in this thread. These aren't opinions. They are facts. Refs "missed" at least THREE fifteen-yard penalties against USC. And it appears, by video evidence, that Wetjen DID keep his foot inbounds on that last Iowa pass by the same margin the Indiana receiver did in their miracle win over PSU last week. But Indiana gets the call. Iowa does not.
 

DukeSlater

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
And your coach looked like a pathetic middle schooler jumping around out on the field at the end. You'd think he'd never been awarded a football game he didn't deserve before. USC had at least three 15-yard penalties (two face masks, one late hit out of bounds) that were NOT called but that were clear in real time and that are preserved for posterity with video evidence in this thread. And that's not even to mention that last Iowa pass--the video evidence seems to show the receiver actually DID get his foot down in bounds, which would have given Iowa first and goal at the seven with under 2 minutes to play. Those are the facts, man. Deal with it.

BTW: I hope to hell Oregon kicks your assss next week, you clueless, classless jerks.
 

Denmar

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Well, sure, except that it's easier to score, and stop the other team from scoring, if the actual rules of the game are objectively enforced. There were TWO egregious face mask penalties NOT called on USC. That's 30 yards the Iowa offense deserved but was cheated out of. And then there was the other 15 yards on the clear, obvious hit on Wetjen out of bounds when a flag was thrown, but then picked up with the explanation that hitting Wetjen out of bounds was "legal."

How about we play the game by the rules and then see how the helll it turns out? Wanna give that a try? Take your bullshitt elsehwere.
You nailed it
 

TweeterHawk

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Is it true this is the same group of clowns who called Coop’s game-winning return against the Goofs a “fair catch”? Or was this just the BIG trying to preserve USC’s ranking for viewership and bigger bowl money?
 

Hawk4Ever!

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And don't forget the roughness penalty on Wetjen's return. He's standing out of bounds by a couple of yards, a USC guy comes along and drills him, somebody throws a flag, but then the officials huddle and say, "Who the hell threw that flag? What were you thinking? Pick the damn thing up."
And so they did.
Roughness lol ...this is suppose to be the Big 10 LOL you pansy. The refs made up with the phantom no fumble by Gronk. 7 minutes left, they score there and still time for Riley to run it up and you know he would had. USC puts up a 40 spot if they don't bail us out there.
 

kwik44

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Do you people realize how pathetic you sound. Iowa won the first half, USC won the second half. You had 30 minutes to score and didn't, and 30 minutes to stop USC and you didn't. Get over it.
Nobody said a word about Indiana or Oregon outcomes regarding judgment calls.

This one was different. Why? It was plain as day.
 

kwik44

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What a bunch of complainers, the officials cost Iowa the game!

Make the plays needed to win. One TD in the second half might have won the game, instead, the offense went away.
Difficult to do when two possessions were robbed.
 

uihawk82

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I thought Lincoln was gonna jump into the official's arms.


Was there any rigging going on at Tex A&M to keep them undefeated? A 30 point 2nd half comeback??? Hell USCw scored 16 in the second half against the hawks but they are a super jazzed offense.

I didnt see or hear about the TA&M comeback but maybe a miracle!!!????
 

Hawk4Ever!

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You mean like how Riley and his assistant were celebrating ON the field in the last 30 seconds and the ref came over and gently nudged them back over the line? Like that?
Parker got flagged for bitching at the white hat. Penalty was Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Hawk assistant. Everyone there saw him on the field screaming. He was frustrated. It's always tough blowing a big lead like that and in this case getting schooled by USC offense over and over. The high school hard count that SC pulled on him, sent him over the edge and he lost it.
 

WeBeHerkin

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Those above knew a USC win meant huge hype and ratings for their Oregon game this weekend.