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AbsolutVT03
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As far as officiating in general my biggest complaint is almost always with

regards to consistency. I don't care if officials are calling it tight or letting them play just be consistent in both directions. If you are calling touch fouls on one end then don't let them hammer people on the other. Same with things like holding and pass interference in football. A recent example would be the umpires in the VT/UNC game that got heated. I have no problem with them tossing the VT batter for the bat slam or the VT player for chirping at the first baseman after the inning. But if you're going to eject them because of an earlier warning then you have to toss the UNC pitcher for throwing behind the batter and you have to toss the UNC player who was out of the dugout screaming and pointing. And to be clear I wasn't advocating for officials to not make calls at the end of a game. I was just acknowledging that it's not often possible to put yourself in a position where they can't impact the result. The football game versus Miami is a great example. Yes you can argue that it shouldn't have come down to the final play. But we were an underdog, on the road, against a top 10 team. The chances of us blowing them out to a point where officiating doesn't matter were slim to none. And in the end the officials screwed up and it cost us a major win. Sure you can point to plays or calls earlier in the game and play what if but at least in this specific instance the officials literally changed a win to a loss in spite of the rulebook.
Posted: 05/12/2025 at 05:04 PM ET
(In response to this post by VAHokie89)

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Regarding the “don’t leave it up to the committee” posts. I get it.
AbsolutVT03 05/12/25 11:18 AM ET
I also am not a fan of "let them play" and "officials should not affect..:"
VAHokie89 05/12/25 01:53 PM ET
As far as officiating in general my biggest complaint is almost always with
AbsolutVT03 05/12/25 05:04 PM ET
I just hate it for the young ladies involved
VTChip 05/12/25 01:23 PM ET
How many teams with a .500 conference record and 21 losses, overall, have
VT One 05/12/25 10:46 PM ET
It’s happened before. Let me think which team…oh yeah…Alabama **
hokiepro 05/13/25 07:31 AM ET
But the other issue is that a couple of teams could probably
VAHokie89 05/12/25 01:55 PM ET
Nobody below 16 in RPI with worse than 100 OOC SoS has hosted
hokiepro 05/12/25 02:02 PM ET
Yep. First time EVER committee cites “win percentage vs top 50”
hokiepro 05/12/25 01:45 PM ET
counter point, being in town for graduation would be a huge distraction
VermontDDS 05/12/25 01:37 PM ET
That wasn’t the reason (supposedly) that they weren’t selected**
VTChip 05/12/25 01:39 PM ET
i don't think they could use that excuse
VermontDDS 05/12/25 01:48 PM ET
Exactly. This time they pulled out “win % vs top 50”
hokiepro 05/12/25 02:06 PM ET
We'll just continue to support in every way we can**
TomTurkey 05/12/25 01:33 PM ET
To arms!**
TomTurkey 05/12/25 01:44 PM ET
Probably got a call from the [former] Wake Forest AD **
TomTurkey 05/12/25 01:32 PM ET
Well said. I agree completely.**
WestEndHokie39 05/12/25 01:12 PM ET
We had a saying at work, "[ ], where your best is not good enough!"**
TomTurkey 05/12/25 11:34 AM ET
I agree…
MrFantastic! 05/12/25 11:25 AM ET