How The Replay Officials Tried To Cheat For Notre Dame

I have to give them credit to the Norte Dame Irish, they came out at the start of their game against the North Carolina Tar Heels and played well.  They took a lead and were looking to win the game.  If they won this game, and fairly, I would've put them in my Top 25.

UNC played their hearts out in the second half and took a 29-24 lead.  Late in the fourth, on a third down play, North Carolina completed a pass for about 30 yards down the field.  After he was already down, the North Carolina player let go of the ball.  The play was ruled as a catch on the field.  This play went under review.

From the angles given, there was no evidence that the receiver could've possibly lost possession of the ball, or could have not caught the ball.  After several minutes of review, the replay official called down to the field. The referee stated that the North Carolina player did not catch the ball, and UNC was forced to punt.

Notre Dame, led by Jimmy Clausen, put together a very nice drive. On fourth and 13 with 11 seconds left, Jimmy threw a completion to the five yard line, where the receiver then fumbled and North Carolina recovered. This play went under review.

Once again, there was conclusive evidence that the play should stand and no evidence that it should be overturned.  Fortunately, the replay official must have realized that trying to cheat this much would result in an investigation by the NCAA, so he must've decided to let the right call stand, and UNC won the game.

This Big East replay official must've been a huge fan of Notre Dame because any sane person with any vision at all would see these plays as having no chance of being overturned. 

Even the announcers were screaming both times that there is no evidence to overturn the call and it would be ridiculous that they would consider turning it over.

Another thing, each review took several minutes.  Now, if a play has clear cut evidence to be overturned, then it would take no more than one or two minutes to see that the call on the field was clearly wrong, and then to make sure. 

If a play takes several minutes to review, then clearly the evidence is either too close to call or too hard to see, and that is not indisputable evidence, so therefore the call cannot be reversed.

Go ahead Notre Dame fans, yell at me and say it wasn't an attempt at a cheat.  You know that in your heart that I am right, but you just want to defend the cheat by the refs.  It wasn't the Irish's fault, it was the replay official's.  You don't have to yell at me for calling the refs cheaters.

The moral of this story: Some people will do anything and cheat to any measures to try and help their team win. 

Another moral is that if a replay takes more than a couple of minutes, the evidence is not clear and therefore the call on the field cannot be overturned due the rules that have been instated by the NCAA.