There were no clear shots of the catch on the TV feed. The refs used what they had available to make the call. Sac State did nothing wrong and to be honest, the refs called for a review, so they did their job too.
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Game 11: (RV) Sac State (6-4, 4-2 BSC) vs. Idaho (4-6, 2-4 BSC)
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BuckeyeHornetFan
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As I mentioned in my earlier reply, and others have since echoed, not one of the replays shown on the broadcast indicated that it was not a legal catch.
There was one replay shot from the same sideline angle as the image shared above, but you could not see low enough to view Jordan Williams leg on the sidelines and there were also players along the sideline obstructing the view.
I'm betting the officials didn't have a better view than we had on the broadcast thus the reason they upheld the call on the field.
Lastly, I remember not all that long ago the Big Sky didn't even have replay available to them for plays such as this. How many of those games did the Hornets lose?
What comes around, goes around.
Confirmation bias is strong in the haters. They always see what they want to see and ignore that which they don't want to see.
Most fans only ever want to point to a single play or two at the end of a game to say "this call cost us" all while ignoring the remaining 175-180 plays that also occurred throughout the game.
If you try asking any of these fans to rationally explain why a call with :30 remaining in the game is somehow different than an equally blown call much earlier in the game -- they never have a good answer. Because there is no good answer.
I mean, couldn't the Hornets complain that the Montana game was ripped away from them due to the 10/1 penalty disparity? Did Montana fans want to hear about any of that? Nope. Did they feel bad about it. Nope.
Any reasonable and competent fan knows that there's never been a game in the history of the sport where a team committed only one penalty over a 60 minute contest. There's been plenty where few (or only one!) have actually been called, but teams commit a multitude of infractions every single game and it all comes down to what the officials see or don't see or choose to call or not call.
Same logic applies to the replay on Saturday. Sometimes the calls go your way, sometimes they don't. But they happen to every team (some more than others) and it's disingenuous or just flat out ignorant to only lament the ones that happen at the end of the game.
A valid argument could be made that calls missed earlier in the game were the reason the one at the end even mattered!
As if Montana and every other team hasn't won games in similar fashion over the decades.
I believe the following quote from the movie 'Rounders' encapsulates the cognitive bias in every fan:
"Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career."
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Kadeezy
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Ohhhhhhh nowwwwww they care.... LOL
HeavyistheClown
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