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 Doubt a conspiracy however :)

I don't believe that major a change in how games are called was individually decided by each of the 3 refs every time they didn't blow their whistle.

I'm not saying they conspired to give team X or player Y an advantage, but I believe at least that set of refs agreed to Maul Ball for at least that game.  Maybe it came down from the head of the referees, or from the conference.

It is one thing to say you never want to see that again, and it is another thing to say that the officials should have seen & called that foul.  Mary Murphy said "I don't think I've ever seen that, which I could say about a number of things that I've seen in this game."  I took that as close to open criticism of the officiating as the PAC-12 would allow.

Officials: Bob Scofield, Tiffany Bird, Michael Price

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 Doubt a conspiracy however :)

I don't believe that major a change in how games are called was individually decided by each of the 3 refs every time they didn't blow their whistle.

I'm not saying they conspired to give team X or player Y an advantage, but I believe at least that set of refs agreed to Maul Ball for at least that game.  Maybe it came down from the head of the referees, or from the conference.

It is one thing to say you never want to see that again, and it is another thing to say that the officials should have seen & called that foul.  Mary Murphy said "I don't think I've ever seen that, which I could say about a number of things that I've seen in this game."  I took that as close to open criticism of the officiating as the PAC-12 would allow.

Officials: Bob Scofield, Tiffany Bird, Michael Price