I loved those 2k era Sacramento Kings teams. That game 6, in 2002, when the lakers shot 27 fts in the 4th quarter…If a NBA ref can fix games, it would be naive think it couldn’t happen in college football.
“Two years of reporting later, the story can now be told: This is the definitive account of how Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games -- and how, in so doing, he unwittingly enriched an array of gamblers to the tune of likely hundreds of millions of dollars.”
No and he shouldn't disclose anything. There is no right that anyone knows whos injured. Is their insiders letting Vegas know ? Maybe. Like I said some student waterboy getting a 5k handshake wouldn't surprise me.Is Heupel helping the bookies by not disclosing suspensions and injuries to the public? Thought about this last week when UT was a 6.5 favorite at Florida and all of Vegas was picking Florida. Then the next week we find out about hidden suspensions. And Sampson never saw the field.
Means your post was made wearing a tinfoil hat. What? You think the mafia is controlling the refs??
To the ref who witnessed an obvious face mask call on Nico, are you really that stupid?
Good thing he didn’t get severely injured on that play.
Embarrassing that this is the best officiating NCAA has to offer.
right and stuff is starting to happen in college atheltics too. Bama's baseball coach got caught feeding insider information to bettors. He got fired, but the SEC has not implemented any of the systems or protections to protect the integrity of competition. I wonder why that is!View attachment 581844
You can go back even before gambling was easy and there are numerous case were refs where shaving points making more than their jobs paid. To think it never goes on is to have your head in the sand. Theres millions of $$ bet every week. especially since digital gambling they can spread small bet of a couple thousand over many different states with bettors that cant be tied to.
It would be different if it were new or not almost uniformly against UT. The officiating in EVERY UT game this year has been terrible and terrible in a one-sided way.To the ref who witnessed an obvious face mask call on Nico, are you really that stupid?
Good thing he didn’t get severely injured on that play.
Embarrassing that this is the best officiating NCAA has to offer.
The options are gross incompetence or some form of dishonesty. Considering how one-sided these calls and non-calls have been this year... it is becoming harder to simply chalk it up to incompetence.Means your post was made wearing a tinfoil hat. What? You think the mafia is controlling the refs??
If there is a sophisticated betting cartel that's illegally influencing the outcome of college football games, their #1 goal would be not to follow a pattern. A cheating system, that could be predicted from the outside, would be the last thing the cartel would want.It would be different if it were new or not almost uniformly against UT. The officiating in EVERY UT game this year has been terrible and terrible in a one-sided way.
I didn't say anything about a betting cartel. Personally I would consider that fairly unlikely. A crew conspiring to bet on games or an official who did so on his own would be slightly more likely but still fairly unlikely. It DOES happen... but guys also get caught doing it.If there is a sophisticated betting cartel that's illegally influencing the outcome of college football games, their #1 goal would be not to follow a pattern. A cheating system, that could be predicted from the outside, would be the last thing the cartel would want.
So, what would be more likely ?
That this cartel, that has kept their system hidden from the general public for years, has continually fixed every game against the same team (UT). Or, that a fan of a specific team (UT again) has a cognitive bias when viewing the calls against his favorite football team ?
We don't have the same crews ref every game that we play. For every game to be affected would require some kind of coordination among the refs.I didn't say anything about a betting cartel. Personally I would consider that fairly unlikely. A crew conspiring to bet on games or an official who did so on his own would be slightly more likely but still fairly unlikely. It DOES happen... but guys also get caught doing it.
It could be as simple as not liking UT or Heupel or Hadden or UT's style of play and tempo. I don't know. All I know that there have been several egregiously bad calls and they've all gone against UT.
If I'm biased then show me the calls that went in UT's favor comparable to those that went against them. I'm open to considering my own bias here... but I think the facts are pretty straight forward. Go back to the game where Hadden was called twice for running into a WR on balls that were so badly underthrown that they could/should have been called uncatchable... then compare that to an opposing DB that did the same thing to a UT WR in the end zone with 2 officials bracketing the play.
Show me where UT has benefited from bad officiating as much as they've been hurt by it.