The ruling, incomplete pass. One of several blown big calls by this crew. Yes the guys in the white jerseys recovered what was obviously a "fumble"

The pictures are in sequence. In the second picture you can still clearly see the QB was standing ahead of the line.

Oh no, not the worst by any means. I just happened to have caught enough of this to verify. The 'problem" I have with it, I don't understand how it could have been missed. It wasn't close.

Look where the yard line is, look where the quarterback is and look where he has the ball in relationship to the yard line. Now look where the ball is as it is coming out of the "receivers" hands. In live action it appeared to be a little closer but still did not look to be a forward pass.

There were a couple of other very obvious misses on this side of the field. One was a reception where the receiver had one foot on the sideline and and the other foot a good couple of feet out of bounds. My camera refused to take a picture of that catch!

One of the funnier/sad ones was a spot. The runner ran to the sideline then cut up field.Now again it looked obvious that he hit the white line. His cut was ~ five yards up field of me. The area within several square yards looked nice and neat except for this nice huge fresh mark on the outside edge of the white line. Outside being field white line sidelines. His mark was on the white line and into the the sidelines. When he made the cut you saw some white grass fly up.:) They gave him progress down field another 10 or so yards.

I  am  not going to get into holds or other calls. Those many times are very hard to judge. But this pass that should have been a fumble, the "pitch" where it appeared the runner was down, the "catch" on the sideline and the missed out of bounds call all where in the area that the official on the sideline should have seen. I know the job these guys do is tough but to me this was a little excessive in misses by one guy. I really posted these here because every time I've seen you at a game you have been that official. I can say I can only recall one potential call you missed. That was when I was a boxman and an Olympic player got his hands in the facemask of a runner. I forget the team that was against. You didn't throw the flag and I kind of thought you should have. I mentioned it to you after the play. Otherwise you've been spot on for every game I can remember.

I don't think you would have missed all these calls. I know you've had similar situations. All of these are normal things we see many times in the course of one ball game. All except for maybe "the pitch". I don't know if it is because your mechanics are better than this guy or what. And understand these are complaints. In this game it really didn't matter who won. I can honestly say this is one of those games that I got to enjoy and was only "upset" when I saw stupid stuff like this happen. Oh yea, I was upset that the two teams did not shake hands after the game.

SC does the coin flip pre-game with the coaches and not the team captains. I did not realize this.

ASU, the other official on this side of the field was almost in the same position. I have to give Coach Reedy a lot of credit. The man did not lose it over these calls like I know most coaches would.

ASU you would like Reedy, he coached at Clemson in the 80's. Malcom "Dr. Detroit" Nelson told me so. I mentioned Nelson because he played WR at Clemson in case you know of him.

Look standing left of the Yard Line ~2-3 yards. Guy had a PERFECT view, as did the guy on this side who was in a similar position.I think that is the 25 Yard line btw. This turnover would have been very deep and pretty huge!

In the game I reference it was late and Olympic was up pretty big. You and I had talked a little bit during the game. I think you were more surprised that I pointed out that it should have been a penalty on Olympic. When I worked chains I only talked to officials if they struck up the conversations first. The chain crew that was at the game I was at Friday night. They were vocal in their displeasure of the officials AND Their cheering the home team on. I was very shocked the officials allowed them to do this. Normally officials give a warning about cheering, especially when play is inside the 25.

Will you be going to the Indy Vs Butler game this Friday?