The roughing the punter call was bull**** too - he was blocked into the kicker
Refs were home cooking for ND all night, until the levee broke
I was there and totally agree with the refs statement. The calls on Miami (roughing thepunter, Smith's personal foul that took a 4th and 1 from the 3 into a 1st and goal, etc) and the non ND call, (blantent push from behind at the goal line of one of the long runs, a non PI call on #55 against Duke on an under thrown pass from Morris) had me steamed the entire night.
When we play Notre ****, you can count on about six calls or non-calls that will blatantly go against you. They're the sweethearts of the Officials. This is why I detest Notre **** so very vehemently - as they wouldn't win nearly the games they do if the officials called a decent game.
We got our asses whipped. But the piling on was permitted, even encouraged by the officials.