Non-call on Forsythe

[CanadaSooner23]

First, I am proud of the players for the effort and fight. Even though watching the game meant 2 1/2 less hours of sleep for work tonight, I'll do it every time when they show that level of perseverance.

My two cents (worth less once converted to U.S. currency lol) on the Forsythe non-call. The lead official on the baseline should have had a great angle to see the drive and contact. To me, that was one in which it's a judgment call for the ref to decide if the contact was "marginal or non-marginal" and worthy of a foul. A case can definitely be made for a foul, from my view at home it seemed there was enough contact for a foul to be called. That same ref may have called it with no hesitation 30 minutes earlier. The ref that trained me said "If you would call it a foul in the first minute of the game, strive to call it a foul down to the last second." Unfortunately, he said he's seen 15 year veteran refs that struggle to do that. Heck, I reffed an 8th grade boys game with 50-60 people watching and felt the pressure. These high-major refs do have an incredibly tough job at times, because while rules are objective, refs rely on their perception and sensory abilities to make calls, and those things are subjective in nature. I don't blame anyone who is upset with that non-call. I would hope that I'd blow my whistle in that scenario, but I can't say that anxiety/nerves wouldn't get the best of me. Moser once again failed to put his team in a position to succeed. But BOOMER SOONER still!

 

[SoonerDutch]

Yeah, I think coaches should get the guys to know a foul is unlikely to be called in an end-game situation. But still, fans can bitch about calls. People claiming that this or the Fears/UK contact are unequivocally not fouls are delusional. But so it goes, OU shouldn’t put themselves in this position.

Moser is obviously deficient in end game/half scenarios so that compounds everything.

 

[CanadaSooner23]

Yeah, I think coaches should get the guys to know a foul is unlikely to be called in an end-game situation. But still, fans can bitch about calls. People claiming that this or the Fears/UK contact are unequivocally not fouls are delusional. But so it goes, OU shouldn’t put themselves in this position.

Moser is obviously deficient in end game/half scenarios so that compounds everything.

Well said, I agree on all counts. I was hoping Forsythe would swing the ball back towards the middle rather than drive baseline, especially with how good Ole Miss's help defense is. But without him playing the game of his life, we wouldn't have even been in a position to win so it's hard to criticize him.

 

[NYC-Fool]

The Pedulla 3 was the real moment OU lost the game… but if we want to blame refs for not giving OU a chance to climb back, there were two calls at the very end that were 50/50 and went the other way. Time after time under Moser, OU finds itself in this situation and loses.

 

[pncparn]

Go back at look at all the one possession games OU has lost under him vs won. It’s unbelievable

 

[Seymore Cox]

First, I am proud of the players for the effort and fight. Even though watching the game meant 2 1/2 less hours of sleep for work tonight, I'll do it every time when they show that level of perseverance.

My two cents (worth less once converted to U.S. currency lol) on the Forsythe non-call. The lead official on the baseline should have had a great angle to see the drive and contact. To me, that was one in which it's a judgment call for the ref to decide if the contact was "marginal or non-marginal" and worthy of a foul. A case can definitely be made for a foul, from my view at home it seemed there was enough contact for a foul to be called. That same ref may have called it with no hesitation 30 minutes earlier. The ref that trained me said "If you would call it a foul in the first minute of the game, strive to call it a foul down to the last second." Unfortunately, he said he's seen 15 year veteran refs that struggle to do that. Heck, I reffed an 8th grade boys game with 50-60 people watching and felt the pressure. These high-major refs do have an incredibly tough job at times, because while rules are objective, refs rely on their perception and sensory abilities to make calls, and those things are subjective in nature. I don't blame anyone who is upset with that non-call. I would hope that I'd blow my whistle in that scenario, but I can't say that anxiety/nerves wouldn't get the best of me. Moser once again failed to put his team in a position to succeed. But BOOMER SOONER still!

You put way too much analysis in this. The guy hip checked him out of bounds. A foul that’s called 99 percent of the time in games, except when it’s the last play of a close game on the road.