Leach Rips Officials

Take away the Texas TD on out of bounds and Tech leads thus changing the game and momentum.

Does bad officiating happen when Tech plays Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and the Kansas schools?
Absolutely.

Texas A&M has pretty much lost the respect and power they had in times past in football. However, in Basketball, baseball or the other sports there is still a bias there.

The real issue is that bad call or good call, Tech did not play 2 quarters  worth a damn on either offense or defense.

The same problems are happening on defense and will happen again next week with Oklahoma unless the defense believes in itself. Right now it does not and it takes outside factors for the D to get up to bringing in the blood and gut checking time.

That partially because the team is so damn young. In fact, I went and looked to double check. With Woods banished to the scout team, Tech is tied with Temple as the youngest team in the NCAA.

But officiating problems do need to be addressed. I think Leach is smart to address it this year and perhaps make the change before next season when there is something to expect from our team to do a Kansas type run.

Leach is right that officials who have obvious connections to a school should not be allowed to officiate that game.  Two officials on the squad, the review official and a line Judge were ex Texas grads. Another was from Texas A&M and one was from Oklahoma. The rest were from back east.

What the main complaint Leach has is that when you have officials working a game they may help their school. Oklahoma is helped by a Texas win, as well as Texas is helped by a Texas win.

So you have 3 of the five officiating that could be in a place to skew their judgement if they wanted to.

So Leach is right that the officials should not be allowed to call games which their school might benefit. In other words, NO officals who have graduated from a Big 12 school should be allowed to call a Big 12 game. That is the issue.

Also the Big 12 has to properly review the officials during the season and simply fire those who do poorly rather than allow that official to remain until the end of season review which is done in March for Football. New contracts are done in late July for officials. I would submit that the Big 12 have a replacement policy for bad officials who stink or if they find an official being biased in a game. In this way, the officials are less likely to go bad because to get fired would pretty much ruin their career if they got fired midseason.

Something to consider. But Leach is right to address it this year as the trend has been going for some time in both hiring policy and how the Big 12 officiating works not just in Football but in all sports.

Complaining about bad officials is not the same as complaining about a bad outcome game. They are two different issues. Sometimes a bad official costs a game by their call which make these issues the same. But in this case, a Tech loss and bad officiating is not the same thing nor is the reasons behind the issue.

What Leach is up set about is that there were places in the game that should have been properly reviewed. They were not. It took Leach to call twice for a review to actually get the review.

Leach would have reviewed the McCoy fumble downed and TD call but could not. It could not be reviewed because Tech was out of reviews and the official in the both did not call for one.

What people do not understand is that in the official review booth there is a Texas coach and a Tech Coach along with the official and two offical Technical people who work the eqipment.
Leach called the coach in the booth to ask what the hell was going on in the booth and to ask the question.

When the review official in the booth is screaming for Texas and high fiving the Texas Coach for every Texas event it just well made Leach mad which would have made any head coach mad who learned of this.

So in this case the issue is not about sour grapes about the loss. Its about fixing a problem that should never have happened in the first place.