Crosby
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I am pissed this morning. Everyone please spare me the "if we played better in the first half, we would still have won. The flag didn't cost us the game." It sure as hell did. Yeah... we sucked in the first half. BUT... if it had been a closer game, do you think we would have gone up tempo? That's when we actually started moving the ball. And that would have led to different things happening throughout the game. It's like some people actually think you can look back at a game and think that everything would have played out the same, if you subtract a few bad things that happen. Like the blocked punt. You can't just say hey... if that wouldn't have happened then we'd win by 3 or something. Not how it works. EXCEPT at the very end of the game. And that damn official took away a golden opportunity. Would we have scored? I think so. But maybe not. I could live with it if we didn't. Would have still sucked but not nearly as bad as this. We lost, or at least did not have the opportunity to win, BECAUSE OF THE FLAG. The official making that call should be suspended for the rest of the season. I understand wrong calls, and I get that officiating is hard. But you have to be aware for the situation. You DO NOT make that call unless you are certain, beyond all doubt, that it is offside. And I guarantee you that the flag wouldn't have been thrown if we were playing Purdue, Indiana, Rutgers, Northwestern or any one of the the other Big Teams who get screwed on a regular basis by officials when they play OSU and Michigan.