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Post by catamountfanatic07 on Sept 24, 2018 11:17:20 GMT -5
Clark was named DPOW by southernpigskin.com
Kinda ironic
linkClark was an animal out there Saturday. He was the bright spot along with Mike Murphy getting his pick 6.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Sept 24, 2018 17:53:18 GMT -5
I was at the game and most of my obvious thoughts about it have already been expressed on this thread. However, I am surprised no one has commented or touched on the officiating. I'm usually the last person to point my finger in that direction, but in particular the back judge was flag happy all afternoon. Any deep ball thrown up in one on one coverage either way seemed to end up with a defensive pass interference call. He hit the VMI corner #11 with back to back pass interference calls on our first possession and that seemed to set the tone for the afternoon. One critical call that appeared to be obvious offensive pass interference on VMI for pushing off when we had them 4th and 4 and up 52-37 went against us. Had that call went our way then we at least win by two scores and the tone might be slightly more upbeat. I'm not making excuses, but he gave the DB's and corners very little room to try and make a play on the ball, and this seemed to go both ways, however with VMI's style of play it worked more to their advantage. I said when we were down 21-14 and VMI was driving late in the first half looking to go up two scores, that if we escape with a win today it will likely be our last win of the season. After looking around at other scores from the league on Saturday, I'm hoping maybe I am wrong. This team reminds me a lot of 2016, where our only two wins were GW and VMI. Maybe i'm wrong but it appears like we are the worst 3-0 team in the history of sports. This Saturday will give us a direct indication of how the rest of the season will go and we will be able to put the speculation to rest. I look at the Furman game as a must win, because given the play of our secondary I see no possible way we can compete with Samford the following week. They will score as many as they want on us. SoCon officials are the absolute worst college officials in the US bar none. I have watched Western Football for 40 years and I am never surprised by the number of bad calls, official conferences to get their stories straight and the general incompetence of SoCon officials. I can honestly say, I have never been to a Western football game where there was not several bad calls. Lucky for us that we decided to implement replay this year or we would have lost our QB and our best DB to targeting calls. I think the main reason is where the SoCon is located. We are located smack in the middle of the ACC and SEC conferences which is where all of the first class officials are. More prestige and pay for officials in those conferences. So if a guy starts in the SoCon and is any good, he quickly moves to the bigger conference and we are stuck with the ones who can't move up and just stay in the SoCon because they don't have anywhere else to go. If a conference ever needed replay, it is the SoCon. Thank God that we have it now.
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