Notre Dame gets raped; Big East claims it was consensual

Per the Big East:

The Big East said Sunday the back judge is supposed to focus on the play clock. When it hits zero, he is then supposed to check on the ball before calling delay of game.

The league says there will always be some lag time, and that on the fake field goal, "this lag time created the situation where it appears the play clock expired just before the snap."

This is like the Supreme Court ruling that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy. What a flippin' joke. Delay of game is a black-and-white penalty; once the clock hits zero, if the ball isn't snapped it's a penalty. There's no "lag time," or anything of the sort.

Notre Dame twice last night was called for a delay of game penalty. Do you suppose there was any "lag time" allowed there? Of course not, because there is no such thing. When the shot clock runs out in basketball it's a violation, and when the play clock runs out in football it's a penalty. Period, no exceptions.

I was actually looking forward to the NCAA apologizing to Notre Dame for missing the call there, so I could tell them to take their apology and shove it up their ass. Instead they don't even do that, but rather deny the reality that a delay of game even happened. So not only do they not apologize for the mistake, but they insult our intelligence by acting like this happens all the time. Which it doesn't; delay of game is called often, and it's called when the play clock hits zero, not two seconds after the play clock hits zero.

Nothing, of course, will give Notre Dame the victory they probably would have had had delay of game been called (unless Michigan St. can hit a 51-yard field goal). But to spit on my face like this...fuck you, Big East. FUCK YOU.