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Also the article posted below taken from here -
Ball should have gone to Oklahoma
So says the Pac-10 coordinator of officiating of the UO onside kick call
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
JOHN HUNT
Verle Sorgen, the coordinator of football officiating for the Pacific-10 Conference, on Monday answered questions about Oregon's controversial 34-33 win Saturday over Oklahoma, on the instant replay system and on the conference's decision to suspend the crew and replay officials.
Q: What happened on the onside kick and what went wrong with the officiating?
One of the officials was very definite that the Oregon player had recovered it and that the ball had been taken away from him. The other part was a bang-bang play of the Oklahoma player (Malcolm Kelly) leaping up, and he reached for the ball, but at the last second -- and I think maybe the Oregon player (Brian Paysinger) screened out the covering official -- the Oregon player kind of muscled his way through and ended up touching it on his right shoulder.
It's clear to me that Oregon touched the ball first. It is also clear that Oregon did not recover the ball in the pile. In either case, it should have been given to Oklahoma.
Q: What went wrong with the process and why wasn't the call reversed?
I think there was a glitch in the (instant replay) booth. Somehow they didn't get all of the replays that ABC was providing. I think there was a miscommunication between the No. 2 (Roger Judd) and the No. 1 (Gordon Riese), and as a result, we didn't get all the information we should have gotten.
Q: If the glitch was in the replay booth, why was the entire officiating crew suspended?
They made two incorrect decisions to begin with that caused all of this. The suspensions came from the conference office. We had a conference call for an hour this morning. All sides were discussed, and this was the decision that came down by the commissioner.
Q: The pass interference call (on the final drive), was it ruled incorrectly?
That was reviewed also. I really couldn't tell. I could see the linebacker go up with his right arm, I could see the ball go at a crazy rotation afterward, but it was going at a crazy rotation to begin with. If I had to sit up in the instant replay booth and say, 'Do I have indisputable video evidence that that ball was tipped, I couldn't do it. If they said on the field that the ball was tipped, I wouldn't have indisputable video evidence to reverse that, either.
Q: What was the makeup of the officiating crew, and had they worked together before?
They were all veteran Pac-10 officials and every one of them has worked postseason games, and no, they had not worked together. This particular weekend we had seven games, so we had to mix the guys up because we don't have seven crews -- we have six and some extras.
Q: What qualifications do the replay officials have?
All our replay officials are former Pac-10, on-field officials. In the case of this particular replay official, he was a Pac-10 official for more than 20 years before he retired.
Also the article posted below taken from here -
Ball should have gone to Oklahoma
So says the Pac-10 coordinator of officiating of the UO onside kick call
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
JOHN HUNT
Verle Sorgen, the coordinator of football officiating for the Pacific-10 Conference, on Monday answered questions about Oregon's controversial 34-33 win Saturday over Oklahoma, on the instant replay system and on the conference's decision to suspend the crew and replay officials.
Q: What happened on the onside kick and what went wrong with the officiating?
One of the officials was very definite that the Oregon player had recovered it and that the ball had been taken away from him. The other part was a bang-bang play of the Oklahoma player (Malcolm Kelly) leaping up, and he reached for the ball, but at the last second -- and I think maybe the Oregon player (Brian Paysinger) screened out the covering official -- the Oregon player kind of muscled his way through and ended up touching it on his right shoulder.
It's clear to me that Oregon touched the ball first. It is also clear that Oregon did not recover the ball in the pile. In either case, it should have been given to Oklahoma.
Q: What went wrong with the process and why wasn't the call reversed?
I think there was a glitch in the (instant replay) booth. Somehow they didn't get all of the replays that ABC was providing. I think there was a miscommunication between the No. 2 (Roger Judd) and the No. 1 (Gordon Riese), and as a result, we didn't get all the information we should have gotten.
Q: If the glitch was in the replay booth, why was the entire officiating crew suspended?
They made two incorrect decisions to begin with that caused all of this. The suspensions came from the conference office. We had a conference call for an hour this morning. All sides were discussed, and this was the decision that came down by the commissioner.
Q: The pass interference call (on the final drive), was it ruled incorrectly?
That was reviewed also. I really couldn't tell. I could see the linebacker go up with his right arm, I could see the ball go at a crazy rotation afterward, but it was going at a crazy rotation to begin with. If I had to sit up in the instant replay booth and say, 'Do I have indisputable video evidence that that ball was tipped, I couldn't do it. If they said on the field that the ball was tipped, I wouldn't have indisputable video evidence to reverse that, either.
Q: What was the makeup of the officiating crew, and had they worked together before?
They were all veteran Pac-10 officials and every one of them has worked postseason games, and no, they had not worked together. This particular weekend we had seven games, so we had to mix the guys up because we don't have seven crews -- we have six and some extras.
Q: What qualifications do the replay officials have?
All our replay officials are former Pac-10, on-field officials. In the case of this particular replay official, he was a Pac-10 official for more than 20 years before he retired.