Grades: Big 12 Officials Get an 'F' After Embarrassing Substitution Rule Debacle

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Originally published at: Grades: Big 12 Officials Get an 'F' After Embarrassing Substitution Rule Debacle | Pistols Firing

It’s not pretty as OSU takes its first L of the season.

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The play calling in the second half was terrible. The receivers were sent down the sidelines, were completely covered with no chance of success. Screens disappeared in the second half. Just dismal.

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Why is nobody talking about the play TCU ran to tie up the game in the 4th? Very obvious forward handoff to player running in front of QB, with a forward pass. I didn’t think you could run that play but when checking the rule book things are murky, much like the officiating in general today lmao

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Five plays stick out to me:

  1. TCU’s first TD should’ve been 3rd-and-Goal from the 16. Refs even through the flag – for a Frog O-linemen pushing an OSU player after the play, causing him to fall. But they waved it off;

  2. Kendal Daniels playing safety four yards into the end zone. Muhammad cuts loose the receiver thinking he has inside help – and he does…but that help is playing in the end zone;

  3. Flanagan failing to go for the ball on the deep pass that got TCU down to the one (first score). At a minimum a pass break up is likely; it’s possible Flanagan gets an INT;

  4. Braydon Johnson drop in OT. Hit him right in the chest. Gotta make that one;

  5. Johnson’s drop was huge because of Collier’s hold. Dumb.

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WR for TCU had 14 catches last week. 8 or 9 yesterday. Do I need to mention he is also 6’5"? Can someone explain to me why he doesn’t have a man locked on him at all times? Do we just not have the guy that can do that?

Mason loves zone and it’s painfully obvious. However ours guys don’t know how to run a zone defense. The guys look lost. So we rush 4, don’t get to the QB, and we zone up to leave guys wide open. At this point man up on the outside. They mention that mason loves the OSU toughness and that’s why he chose to apply here. Well you take the toughness out of them when they both watch a WR run by them while they point fingers. And I seem to see this each week.

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Offense and defense both get Ds. Special teams get an A.
The way Sonny Dykes was behaving was an embarrassment. If anything, the refs should’ve flagged him for unsportsmanlike conduct and told him to suck it up. Rules are rules.

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We run the screen 2-3 times and gained 20 yard each time. But hey they wanted to get the run game going. Forget going with what was working. They want to establish certain things to show they are a well rounded team. Gotta love that mindset.

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A jet sweep can be a forward handoff. Last year, Ou QB Caleb Williams took the football from RB Kennedy, while he was in front of him and ran for a first down vs Kansas. I think the only stipulation is that the handoff must be behind the line of scrimmage.

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If TCU would called for pushing the OSU player after the play as you said, then the penalty would have been a dead ball foul and enforced on the kickoff

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Nope. Should-be penalty occurred on a failed run. They scored on next play.

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It will be interesting to hear Gundy’s spin on this game during his Rib Crib show next week. I never can remember what night the show is broadcast, so I usually miss it, but I would like to hear this one about the TCU game. If this was the Pat Jones era, coach Jones would have said, “We played a team that was better than us.”
As for myself, I am skeptical about Mason as D coordinator, and Dunn as O coordinator at this point. And I have thought this before the TCU debacle. But I laud Gundy for being honest about being outcoached. He restated the obvious.

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Oh, well I was just going off your statement stating their first TD as opposed to their first TD drive…

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I agree. He should’ve gotten an unsportsmanlike.

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Understood. I went back and watched just to make sure.

We stuffed them on 1st-and-Goal. On 2nd-and-Goal, stopped them again. Well after the play #77 for Frogs pushed Trace Ford and he fell backwards over two players on the ground. Official was right there and threw a flag.

Should’ve been 3rd-and-Goal from 16. But they waved it off. Frogs QB scored on the next play.

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I guessed I did not see that. Officiating sure seems questionable in the game.

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It was more than questionable due to the fact that the refs changed the rules on substitutions half way through the game. Now it probably didn’t cause us to lose the game but still WTF was that anyway? If I didn’t know better I’d be thinking the refs had money on TCU,

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I can’t give Sanders an A because he tried to place the deep ball (that got picked) instead of leading his WR, and allowing him to go get it.

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When we had Rudy they ran the play that you under throw the receiver so he can come back to get it. If he can’t you usually got a pass interference

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Play calling in second half=F-

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Starts up front! If you can’t run the ball you will not win Championships. I would think you would need more full rides going to lineman than receivers simply for the fact we do a god job developing receivers.

  1. Are we saving DT Aden Kelly for some reason or is he just not coming along as a four star recruit should be?

  2. Is this team capable winning out to get back to a Big 12 Championship?

  3. Do we not send our OL to Coach Glass? Lol same line as last year but I haven’t read articles of them making any significant gains like adding 20lvs of muscle? Just curious is all