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The first two plays are obvious missed calls. No excuses possible....especially at the D1 level.
The third play....I've watched that play dozens of times and I still haven't seen an angle that would convince me of the correct call- one way or the other. In the first view it looks like the defender might have leaned sideways out of his vertical plane at the last second, causing the contact. I couldn't tell for sure because the camera panned upward to go with the shot, but it very briefly looked that way. A block may have actually been the right call....emphasis on "may". That's the kind of call where you'd like to be able to ask the calling official what he saw on the play.
We beat the fourth call to death in a past extensive thread. Iirc, the consensus was that the call had to be made because the admitted minimal contact forced the dribbler OOB. You can't ignore the OOB call, so the official really didn't have much choice other than to call a foul. Also iirc, the Big East backed up the call later as being correct.
Jmo.
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