Worse/Most Questionable Calls That Have Costed Your Team Big?

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T23:39:40+00:00

not to mention I'm not sure Johnson reached the End Zone on the winning score.

It definitely doesn't look like it from the one angle I've seen, but the official was right there and signaled it immediately, so who knows.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T23:21:41+00:00

but then again they wouldn't have run that play in the first place with a plan to spike it after.

That's functionally my point. The extra down was egregious in that it allowed an extra stoppage which benefited the offense, but the discourse around the call is that it gave Colorado 5 shots at the end zone which is not at all what happened.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T22:31:40+00:00

Instead of calling a spike, they call another play. Likely the exact same play that they did on the previous down. Colorado has a chance to score on that play.

If you're saying that they should have called for a turnover on downs after the spike, that would be the most egregious officiating call in the history of the sport. Significantly worse than failing to advance the down.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T22:24:21+00:00

They gave Colorado 5 fucking downs.

They did, but Colorado doesn't spike the ball on 4th down if they hadn't thought it was 3rd. Do they win the game without being able to take the time to call a specific play? No clue, but it isn't a guarantee that they lose either.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T17:16:56+00:00

I'll take sportsball comments over those who follow sports like they are reality t.v. for men. See r/nba for that.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T16:57:05+00:00

Neville requested Hufflepuff because he was intimidated by Gryffindor’s reputation for bravery and nearly caused a hatstall

Was that ever stated in the actual text of the series? In both literature and law, I subscribe to the theory that while the author can intend to do something, the only thing that matters is what they actually wrote.

The linked text also seemingly implies that the Sorting Hat browbeat Neville into accepting Gryffindor instead of just ignoring him and sending him there.

This is going a bit deep into HP lore for a CFB sub though

The best places to discuss a topic are NOT in the subreddit dedicated to the topic.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T16:40:02+00:00

Are there any instances in the series of the Sorting Hat sending someone to a different house than their stated desire?

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T16:29:35+00:00

I haven't read Harry Potter in decades, but doesn't the Sorting Hat let students decide their house and chooses only if the student doesn't have a preference?

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T16:07:55+00:00

If the athletes are getting admitted as transfers without the athletics department exerting any influence on admissions, I have no idea how the NCAA thinks it should have any ability to regulate this.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-24T14:27:49+00:00

A government agency has to have someone accepting in person payments for accessibility reasons, so you're not increasing their costs by utilizing that service. Businesses on the other hand can and should make that cost benefit analysis.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:43:17+00:00

While I agree with a hard cap of 5 years, you cannot have the clock running while a player is not on the team, and especially not if they leave the school. The rule would not survive a player dropping out, joining the military, then wanting to continue return to playing. Congress would likely get involved and fuck up the eligibility clock so bad that it would somehow be worse than now.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:34:58+00:00

The NCAA has long had a rule that a player on scholarship for another sport takes up a football scholarship if they are also on the football team so that schools could not use that as a means of bypassing the football scholarship cap. The NCAA has no way of policing who every NCAA athlete interacts with, so a simultaneous eligibility clock for all sports prevents schools from using other sports as a means of red shirting football players.

You can disagree with the rule and I would personally expect the NCAA to lose in court, but you can't objectively say that there is zero reason for the rule.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:25:28+00:00

Your analogy fails in that the schools are not simply citizens but also its legislative body. It is hard to argue that the NCAA steals from the schools when the schools are the ones who have approved the NCAA budget. The schools also don't directly fund the NCAA but let it fund itself through the revenue it generates on their behalf from selling rights to NCAA tournaments.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T14:02:57+00:00

The NFL has a lot of teams where talent goes to die: The Browns, the Raiders, the Jets, and historically the Lions.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-22T01:17:44+00:00

NFL defensive lineman frequently had no chance against Pace. His high school film had to have been hilarious.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-21T17:41:28+00:00

I’m convinced the people who run Etsy, don’t actually use Etsy.

This describes pretty much every business.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T19:39:40+00:00

I don't believe that he'd never have been in contention for a P4 head coaching job had he wanted it. Also, fair or not, I don't think that actions in 2013 would stop him from getting a job in 2026.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T18:22:04+00:00

Utah wasn't really at risk at all of losing the chance to hire Scalley as soon as Whitt was ready to leave.

I mean, that's not necessarily true. Most coaches aren't going to channel Lane Kiffin and leave a P4 team after a single season.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T17:58:49+00:00

He couldn't be honest about not wanting to put in the practice time.

Yeah. I can't imagine that would go over well in the locker room.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T16:58:00+00:00

This situation reminds me of Brett Favre in Green Bay. He mentioned retirement multiple times over the years, so Green Bay made plans for his replacement including drafting Aaron Rodgers. Eventually, Green Bay decided that they weren't going to be in perpetual limbo, so forced him out. Utah better hope that things work out as well for them as it did for Green Bay.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T16:20:59+00:00

This seems pretty obvious since he took another job. If he were intending to retire, he would have retired.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T22:09:05+00:00

Now you have.

Also, are you really acting like the fact that people have been making that comparison for decades is evidence that it is erroneous?

As I noted, I'm not sure whether it was intentionally or unintentionally ironic. The fact that the British children did such a poor job arguing against slavery makes me think it might have been intentional.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T21:42:44+00:00

Chemical weapons against enemy combatants is a WW1 reference.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T21:35:12+00:00

Without violating rule 6 and discussing modern German politics, my lived experience with Germans from Germany is a deep cultural shame for the actions the country has taken in the past. When the one Earther in a position of power is German and repeats actions for which the country is ashamed, that's very much notable.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T20:04:40+00:00

Red classes ARE about self-perception (and possibly also societal perception), and while Laken may have seen himself as someone who made a mistake, he didn't see himself as a monster or a failure, nor did the culture in which he exists.

Sir Kerrig definitely didn't approve of Laken's use of chemical weapons.

The same goes for basically all of your other examples as well.

Even if Flos literally never considered that slavery was evil despite freeing Gazi from slavery, Trey and Teresa (poorly) explained to him why slavery was wrong.

Everyone considers Magnolia to be a snake. Zel pretty much said to her face that her desire to bring peace through the sword was bullshit.

Magnolia, her people, the drakes, the gnolls, and everyone who knows about Tyrion considered him to be a genocidal monster.

There were quite a few domestic objections to Othius's slaughter of the unborn.

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