Head of Pac-12 Officiating: 'Oregon's 'O' is unsportsmanlike conduct'

didnt they start flagging Miami for throwing up the “U” a while back? a bunch of teams got flagged when they wore their pro combats and flashed the gloves. dumb rule either way unless you’re doing it in somebody’s face. see: Mutumbo, Dikembe.

when Uw throws their W, or USC with with Victory V and god forbid we let ASU continue their pornographic unsportsmanlike shocker hand symbol.

This is just dumb.

he says that it’s ok to salute your god, or salute your country, but holy SHIT IF YOU SALUTE YOUR FANS AND SCHOOL!?!??!?!

And his rationalization is totally out of whack, when he says, that officials were given a little more lenience because they didn’t want to a situation like what they saw with Locker and Uw against BYU. Yet at the end, he says that Oregon should stop doing it so they don’t see a situation like Locker and the BYU game. Wait, what? Are referees given more freedom to so they don’t make dumb calls like that or are they not?

Pereira, you’re on my shit list.

Such vulgar hand signals!

exactly who do we complain to about this stupid idea?

Use this form, I suppose.

Pereira claims he will personally call get an earful from Oregon head coach Chip Kelly this week within the hour.

…and somehow we’re ending up with even stupider officiating?

By the way, I saw our good buddy Jay Stricherz officiating the OSU-Wisconsin game. I assumed he had been fired and picked up by the Big 10, but somebody said that it was actually a Pac-12 crew at that game. Which would mean they retained the most incompetent official the conference had.

he is supposedly calling Chip Kelly to let him know. Given his interpretation of the rules, its a flag.

That said, the rules are stupid and need to be changed. I also don’t think any official calls this if he doesn’t put the idea in their minds.

And the main focus every year is harsher penalties for celebration

supwitchugirl Brian Michael Jamie
Nike should modify our football pants to include pockets so we can just stick our hands in our pockets after we score. #NoFun #GoDucks

trendsetters!

Let’s try it out next week, fans.

Threw up his “O” after scoring a TD today for the Ravens. Might as well throw a flag before the opening kickoff sat while they are at it

then they came for spiking the football, next they came for “celebrating”, and finally they came for hand gestures signifying school spirt.

Whats left to be taken away? High fives, players and coaches saying good job, giving someone a thumbs up, the crowd cheering.

GottliebShow Doug Gottlieb
right Tyron Smith has never heard that noise- guess Al never heard of Autzen

represent.

I love that this guy assumes that when players salute it’s a tribute to the military…or when they pray it’s because they’re praising God. They would never do those things to draw attention to themselves.

If it’s called, what a horrible fun-suck by the infantile Pac-12.

Didn’t an Ohio St player already get flagged for the exact same thing near the end of last season?

and I can honestly say I’m irate at the moment. Seriously…. every team has some sort of hand gesture. Trying to take team spirit out of the game is F’n ridiculous. I personally gave him a call and tell him to shove it up his O and then we can have a credible talk about taunting. I really am more upset about this than losing to BSU/OSU/Auburn/LSU. I’m going to the Gators/Vols game on Saturday and I could imagine some jack ass trying to stop “the chomp”. Someone would honestly get fired if they tried to do that…. This clown should get axed because he is basically saying every teams hand gestures are foul. FUBAR

It’s an easy work around. Just have everyone adopt the Religion of Oregon.

flagged every goddamn time I seem them.
Let’s flag the UW W, the ASU shocker, and the Trojan V.
Let’s flag the Miami U, the Utah U, the O-H-I-O, and the Gator chomp.
Let’s just keep going til there’s nothing fun left in college football, then maybe the schools can band together and oust this ridiculous draconian rule.

This is beyond absurd, the fun of college ball is the passion, the excitement and joy and humanity when a team does something special together. Are they going to ban chest bumps or picking your small running back up in the air after he scores a touchdown? The coach sometimes pats his guy on the helmet and says good job after a play, if that’s not a 15-yard penalty I don’t know what the Pac-12 thinks is!

I don’t think you should be allowed to taunt another player or to do something blatant to the fans. But I think you should be allowed to point at the coach, jump up and down, spike the football, flash a hand sign, do a funky dance, put your finger to your lips, twirl in circles, fist bump your mascot, strike a pose, or scream at the top of your lungs while clenching your fists as if you’re about to turn green and rip off your jersey.

But this sums up my response:

that Chip might defend us from this outrage, the person we really need on our side on this is Larry Scott. Rob Mullins should do some lobbying.

No Fun League has come to the Pac 12

I don’t think he is making a value judgement. He’s stating that the NCAA’s new rule that allows only a salute to God or Country (WTF?). Any other gesture is a possible penalty. By that strict definition, his interpretation is correct.

It’s just a stupid rule, period. What if you don’t believe in God or don’t feel like saluting because you’re not pro-military? What other options do you have?

Personally, I want to see someone come up with a salute to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and defend it on religious grounds to expose the absurdity of this.

I wonder what that would look like anyways?

@MikePereira Its fitting you work for Faux sports. They suck. You suck.">> they don’t but I did in the “O” case.

carry on.