Texas v. Nebraska end of game

[JasonTX]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Did the Big 12 hire some former Russian basketball refs for this game?

Regardless of the technicalities, it is hard to avoid the general perception that "the fix was in."

Hmm. If "the fix was in" why would a Big 12 crew want Texas to win. By Texas winning and going to the National Championship that took away any oppurtunity that they may have had in getting to officiate the National Championship game. As it is now, the Big 12 and SEC is out of the running on officiating the game.

[kdf5]

If the fix was in it was the wrong fix. A Nebraska loss meant a huge financial loss for the Big 12. If Nebraska would have won they would have gone to a BCS bowl and Texas would have been the at large BCS pick. Two Big 12 teams in the BCS would have meant another $14 million in the Big 12's kitty. As it is, the Holiday Bowl's paying like $4 million, not $18 million.

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by kdf5

If the fix was in it was the wrong fix. A Nebraska loss meant a huge financial loss for the Big 12. If Nebraska would have won they would have gone to a BCS bowl and Texas would have been the at large BCS pick. Two Big 12 teams in the BCS would have meant another $14 million in the Big 12's kitty. As it is, the Holiday Bowl's paying like $4 million, not $18 million.

Acutally, the difference would have been 4.5 million if Texas received a BCS at large bid.

[eyezen]

I'm not going to add anything meaningful to this conversation because I'm not a football official. But I think it's interesting that in the hyper media age, be it message boards, or talk shows etc all we here over and over again from fandom is got to have replay, officials suck, we have this technology why can't we use it, officials suck, got to get it right, rules be damned, officials suck, ad naseum.

Then in ONE instance in a high profile game where the great all powerful replay comes into play and corrects a situation that obviously should be corrected and what do we get? The same ole tired **** turned on its head. My team got screwed, officials suck, they didn't follow the rules, officials suck, how can they do that now they never did it before, officials suck, the fix is in, officials suck blah blah blah.