Super Bowl champ Tony Dungy rips 'phantom calls' during Ravens-Bengals game

Super Bowl champion coach Tony Dungy took issue with NFL officiating in the Baltimore Ravens’ 34-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night.

Dungy wrote in a post on X that the officials would be the topic of conversation if Joe Burrow and Mark Andrews did not leave the game with devastating injuries.

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Specifically, he was upset about a penalty called on Bengals cornerback D.J. Turner II and wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

"If not for the unfortunate injuries to Mark Andrews & Joe Burrow last night everyone would be talking about the officiating. Missing a foul is one thing —you can’t see everything that happens," he wrote. "But calling things that aren’t there??? Phantom calls were a problem both ways!"

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Between the Ravens and Bengals, 18 penalties were called. Each team suffered nine penalties – Cincinnati for 78 yards and Baltimore for 110 yards.

The Ravens overcame the penalties to win the game 34-20.

"We can’t play the refs. Just keep going out there, keep pressing guys," Bengals safety Jordan Battle said after the game. "Stay in the receivers’ faces. I know, obviously, some of the calls weren’t good calls, but we can’t control that. We have to keep going out there and playing and playing hard and just keep having faith in our guys. Guys in the DB room, we’ve just got to keep having faith in our guys in the DB room."

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Dungy has gone after officials before. In 2019, he took issue with the rule allowing coaches to challenge pass interference calls.

"Please NFL do us a favor and don’t let coaches challenge any more Pass Interference calls," Dungy posted along with a photo from the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys game on Monday night.

"You’re causing teams to lose time outs, making your officiating department look inept, and making us fans feel stupid — like we don’t know the meaning of clear, obvious and significant!"

The option was pulled at the end of the season.

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University of Arizona president faces backlash over $240 million budget shortfall

Students and faculty members harshly criticized University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins on Thursday over a $240 million budget shortfall that has sparked suggestions for cuts to student scholarships and instructor salaries.

The angry complaints about the financial miscalculation consumed most of the first hour of a gathering of the board of regents in Tucson, Arizona. News of the shortfall was announced two weeks ago and quickly led to calls for an external audit and accountability by university leadership.

"I do not trust the university with my well-being anymore," Megan Wong, a student senator in the pharmacy college, told the crowded meeting. "The university has made it loud and clear that they do not care about us."

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Phyllis Brodsky, of the university's office of instruction and assessment, told Robbins that news of the shortfall has created uncertainty as she prepares to retire next year.

"I did my job for 40 years," she told the university's president. "Now do yours!"

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Robbins did not directly address the criticism during the meeting but acknowledged that the university faces financial difficulties. Robbins has until Dec. 15 to give the board of regents a plan for dealing with the shortfall.

Robbins has said that the university's athletic department drained university resources ahead of its move from the Pac-12 to the Big 12.

He acknowledged during a Nov. 2 meeting with the board of regents that athletics was not producing the revenue expected after the pandemic and has indicated that cutting sports from the school is an option. Arizona has 20 athletic teams and a budget that exceeds $100 million.

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The meeting Thursday also featured a presentation by Robbins on key investments the university has made over the past year in research and other areas, using money drawn from the school's reserves.

Jon Laguardia, a lecturer in the English department, said he represented instructors in the school’s writing program who he said have a base annual salary of about $44,000 and deserve an increase.

"We make a lot of money for the university," said Laguardia, noting that good writing skills are important in all academic disciplines.

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