Are the AAC officials just flag happy? The last three AAC games I have watched (ECU/USF,ECU/SMU,UH/TEMP) has been severely penalized games. Are the refs in the AAC the old Big East refs and are they just not good at their job or are they try to be very efficient to move up to another conference?

Seems like all games to me these days.

Bad, but not as bad as AAC basketball officials...

I thought the AAC was in an "Officials Pool" with the B12 and CUSA... (Meaning I thought all three conferences were collaborating on a shared pool of officials who could be dispatched to games since we have a lot of shared territory.)

The Houston running back probably wants to choke a couple of those refs from last night. Every long run he had was called back by some bogus looking holding calls. The refs are bad for all teams so I guess it is what it is.

The game last night was ridiculous. 21 flags. Several idiotic calls. A handful of official reviews, including two that were totally unnecessary. And it went both ways. Couple that with tv timeouts and the game's rhythm was totally out of whack.

I voted terrible, only because they are better than C-USA (which are the worst in history). To be fair some of the worst ones are the ones that came along with the C-USA 2.0 teams.

(10-18-2014 11:14 AM)CornellCoog Wrote:  The game last night was ridiculous. 21 flags. Several idiotic calls. A handful of official reviews, including two that were totally unnecessary. And it went both ways. Couple that with tv timeouts and the game's rhythm was totally out of whack.

Don't forget the Temple quarterback who looked to down in the end zone, but the refs ruled he had fumbled.

If you think they're bad you've forgotten CUSA days

I like when you watch a game and the refs make the calls but are not flag happy. I can not stand watching any football game no matter who is playing or what league and the refs just constantly throwing flags. I wish they would just let teams play.

Way too many questionable holding calls. Sometimes they are legit but many times its something that could be called on every play. The AAC really needs to do something about the officials because the officiating is very terrible at best and I think thats being nice. Its like the refs want the game to be about them and not the players on the field. Ridiculous!

I voted 'typical refs.'

Fact is that if your team is disciplined and has great fundamentals then you give the refs no ammo to throw a flag. If you start slipping, they will notice. Any team with youth and inexperience will draw flags.

As far as no-calls on so many holding penalties, there just simply aren't enough refs on the field to pick up on them.

Go to every conference and ask about their officials. Chances are you'll get the same types of responses we're seeing in this thread.

They love to throw the flags, that's for sure.

I voted typical because sometimes, they throw flags for legit penalties. Sometimes, they throw them when they shouldn't (or for ticky-tack crap), and sometimes, they don't throw it when they obviously should.

And yes, Temple fans, that hit was and should've been called a legal hit. I was there at the game Friday with my girlfriend and we both agreed that the flag shouldn't have been thrown. She definitely knows her football, too.

I thought the ones officiating the Houston-Temple game were terrible (on both sides). That crew needs to be demoted to FCS games.

(10-20-2014 09:43 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  I thought the ones officiating the Houston-Temple game were terrible (on both sides). That crew needs to be demoted to FCS games.

Their all that bad. I haven't seen one game that was called better than that.

all i know is im happy when ed ardito works our games. he runs a good crew and is a solid ref. i just havent seen much thats just flat out incompetent this season (i admit i dont watch every single snap of every single game)

I say typical. They seem bad, but then you watch other conferences and how bad refs are continues to get more obvious with better technology.

(10-18-2014 09:54 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  Bad, but not as bad as AAC basketball officials...

I can agree that our basketball officiating is a much bigger problem than football, but those guys are not really AAC specific. You will see the same clown shows night after night doing different conferences and screwing them all up equally.

Total tangent, I think they need to either change the foul limit to 6-7 or just not foul out players. A foul is worth too much and they are pretty much arbitrarily handed out at the college level. They're resulting in valuable points in games that are getting more low scoring by the minute and resulting in teams constantly playing without their stars. "Earning" a foul is a big enough advantage already without affecting the other team's lineup. /rant

dana kirk used to advocate not having a foul limit back in the day. he proposed any foul committed by a player after his 6th foul count like a technical - 2 shots and the ball - to keep it from turning into a hack fest, but you could still keep the best players out on the floor if you chose to. not a bad idea but ahead of its time. the way the rules have changed since back then, its not such a bad idea.