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Originally posted by stan-MI
By the way, Rut, the referee JoPa chased off the field was Dick Honig, who lives in Ann Arbor and played and coached baseball at Michigan before he began selling officiating supplies. That was a game or two before the Michigan-Penn State game. The Big Ten does not allow Honig to officiate Michigan games.
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I was not talking about the Penn State/Iowa game. I was talking about the Penn State/Michigan game. Joe Pa accused the officials for favoring Michigan, because I guess 4 of the officials lived in Michigan. Honig is a different story all together, he has had direct ties to Michigan. The officials that did the Penn State/Michigan game might have had no connection at all but living in the same state. Just because you live in the same state, does not mean that you favor that team. I know Big Ten Officials that live in Illinois and have done Illinois/Michigan games. I cannot think of a time that Illinois that got favortism their way. As a matter of fact, the famous Illinois/Michigan game were A-Train fumbled the ball and another controversial play took place, two of the officials were from Illinois. Illinois lost the game and eventually lost 4 or 5 straight. The crew chief of that crew was from Illinois and admittedly had a touch game and was not favoring either team.
Peace