ACC Suspends Miami-Duke Officials

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Originally Posted by BigsFLA

Excellent points, AremRed! In RT, it is quite easy to miss whether that knee is down or not. Panucci had a lot to look at and I am certain there was pressure to review everything going on as quickly as possible. A mistake? Yes. It should have been caught, but there was so much to review and I'll bet the major concerns were ensuring that none of the laterals were forward passes. I'd have called the IBB had I seen it. They screwed up, but a two-game suspension was over-the-top imho.

Should anyone be really surprised? Like anything, that may well be beneficial, when taken to ridiculous extreme can be twisted into something counterproductive.

Absolute perfection is a laudable objective and valid pursuit, but when people delude themselves into thinking they can achieve "absolute perfection", the wheels start to come off. When the illusion of "cure", turns out to be far more troublesome than whatever sickness you're dealing with, it's better to accept the reality of diminishing return, than insist on the "cure".

This sounds a lot more like the ACC, rather than face the reality that expecting absolute perfection, down to the level of a gnat's eyelash, is not and never will be possible in any facet of the game of football (playing, coaching, administering, rule making or officiating - in real time), chose simply to pander to the loudest complainers to protect, what they imagine, is there own illusion of perfection.