Crappy officiating. Because the good stuff takes too much effort.
It’s not just the Big Ten, of course.
Maybe the conferences need to save the money for litigation and lobbying expenses.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Mind-numbing. Doesn’t matter though because we aren’t gonna stop watching.
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Missing a call like that at that point in the game, they should never officiate an SEC game again.
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The refs are too old and can’t keep up with the game anymore
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This was the larger experimental officiating crew. Sheesh!
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If only HBC had known about this in his post-game press conference, he could have called out the assistant coach in charge of number spotting and officiating foul ups to explain why the assistant allowed the snafu to happen.
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I gotta cut the officials a little slack on this one. Rarely would the same official be paying close attention to both the defensive tackles and the guy lined up 35 yards back as a deep safety. Yes, somebody is counting the number of players, but tracking jersey numbers of guys nowhere near each on the other field is likely a good bit more difficult than one would imagine.
Plus, I just hate seeing teams get bailed out by ticky-tack calls. The number issue in this situation had no bearing on the result of the play, if anything he whiffed on trying to defend the play. I agree that as part of the larger trend of crappy officiating, this just adds one more log to the fire, but looking at this instance in a vacuum, I don’t think SC “deserved” another shot there.
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Just to be clear, im not saying it shouldn’t have been called if one of the refs had noticed it. Just saying that the crew can be forgiven (in my opinion) for not catching it, given the circumstances. It’s easy to identify if it happens on offense and everyone is line up close together along the same line. But in a prevent D situation where the offending players are nowhere near each other, I think a LOT of people would miss that call. It’s not like anybody on SC’s sideline or press box caught it, and they had as good or better viewpoints than the refs.
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Agree 100%. Stunned that people are so confident that this qualifies as ‘terrible’ officiating. Officials are going to miss calls because they are not superhuman gods, and they should not be dedicating precious brain cycles to nailing this extremely rare situation 100% of the time.
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Agree with both of you, that was a nit-picky incident anyway, doubt it would have changed the outcome. But there are some really serious issues with accountability of a group that does determine nearly every game. But for some reason it is sloughed off as insignificant for the powers that be. I don’t see a solution short of setting up a national organization of officials that are trained using the same standards and interpretations just like the NFL does. It won’t prevent missed calls but the consistency will improve and you can get officials who are from another region of the country and rarely work the same teams often. There is enough money to do this, if not take 10% of every D1 coach’s salary. It is that important. And put someone at the top that will terminate lousy officials whether on the field or in the replay booth. Enough of this protecting your buddy’s ass.
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Agree with everything you said, the larger trend is certainly the issue. Was just surprised at this particular incident being singled out so harshly.
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Because it would have affected the outcome of the game. If we were in SC shoes we would be outraged.
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Honestly, I wouldn’t be. It didn’t impact the final play at all. If somehow the number issue has impacted the play at all, it would bother me. Just don’t see much to get worked up about on this one, even if it happened to us. It’s not like the blatant terrible holding call against SC or something along those lines that actually affected the play itself.
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Agree, the Hail Mary attempt would have been closer but the holding call was horrible because it was invented….not mistake or blown call at all. That really sucked.
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If you want to see absolutely awful officials, check out last nights tosu-psu game. Calling time outs when no coach asked for them, screwing up the play clock, placing the ball yards short/long of the mark, and an obvious wrong call on an INT was upheld on replay! They looked lost at times.
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National TV – B1G 10 – A fine moment for Jim Delany. I swear there looked to be a few times that Meyer was officiating the game himself.
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Absolutely this. My God it was horrible and laughable at the same time. Just a full blown mess.
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I was in Happy Valley for the PSU OSU game last night. Absolutely unbelievable. Worst… officiating… ever.
Had to watch UrbanF@%kingMyer escape again. To make matters worse, OSU will probably rise in the polls again. The dawgs would kick the snot out of this team.
But don’t worry, the refs have their excuses all lined up:
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“Worst… officiating… ever.”
The caliber and quality of which almost matched PAC-12 officiating standards
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Did you ever see a soccer team take the field with more than one #10? No. Two #9’s? No. Never. You have to earn the right to wear those numbers.
This is so stupid–Its a coaching/recruit problem. Every asshole kid wants to wear #1–but not all of them are #1’s–especially at UGA. If the coach only lets one wear it, this never happens. If that coach doesn’t have the sack to manage jersey numbers properly, the penalty should be far more severe–like the play doesn’t count and the idiots have to sit in the locker room until they can agree on what numbers to wear. I really don’t understand this.
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Eh, it happens everywhere, including at UGA. That wasn’t Aaron Murray out there on all those special teams units the last few years. 😉
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:-0 !!!?
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I wish duplicate numbers would be outlawed period. It would mean some walkons and special team players would have to wear a different number perhaps every game but duplication of numbers seems cheap to me. Refs also let Auburn run plays with only 6 men on LOS a few times.
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Yep. Saw it all night long (Auburn linemen not up to the LOS).
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Boy the AU fans whine when you tell them that. There is no excuse and the SEC should have better refs.
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Go to foxsports.com and read MIke Pereira’s article about the SEC officials this year. It makes me think that every crazy Penn Wager’s conspiracy espoused by UGA fans since the WLOCP in 2007 may be true.
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The SEC is using refs to fix games and has been for years.That’s how the SEC was able to get an SEC team in the BCSNCG every year for so long. It’s all about the bowl $$. They got so good at it that the SEC got BOTH ends of the BCSNCG money in ’11.
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This is just wrong on so many levels. Want to say ” incompetence”, I think you will get a lot of support but fixing games and conspiracy is really out there Mayor. At the very least you should offer some substantiation before making those TN and AU like charges….those two whine after every game.
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It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. They know way they’re doing…protecting their prize cows.
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Its really not, to me anyway, that the zebras missed Auburn’s duplicate numbers, it is that they made a mistake of any kind that affected the outcome of the game and did nothing to correct it.
If, indeed, the SEC sets the bar for college football prowess, how an the league justify not spending whatever money it takes to get officiating crews that are up to the standards of play.
Seems mind numbingly absurd to me.
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Scorp, the refs are doing exactly what Slive and Co. want them to do.
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What is that shade I see before me? A ghost, a spectre?
Oh, no it’s a black helicopter.
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That was + forever (SEC must have made my + sign disappear.)
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“If, indeed, the SEC sets the bar for college football prowess, how an the league justify not spending whatever money it takes to get officiating crews that are up to the standards of play.”
Shank!!!
“If, indeed, the SEC sets the bar for college football prowess, how can the league justify not spending whatever money it takes to get officiating crews that are up to the standards of play?”
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So we could have just gotten away with playing Crowell and Branden Smith together?
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http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/alabama-tennessee-sec-officiating-replay-review-102514
Lack of Credibility and Integrity
Could give a Rat’s Derriere about the ‘System’ Any Improvement is Welcome
Steve Shaw spoke at the Macon TD last year and he said that he and Slive were personally wired in a Birmingham Command and Control Center to every replay official in every game all day Saturday.
Given how bad we got hosed in the USCe game, wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t three systems in place:
1) On the field wireless which works only with the officials on the field
2) The Head Referee has a wireless up to the Replay Official
3) B’ham Control Center is wired to the Replay Official
Even if Pereira is wrong, the effect is the same.
Personally – after the travesty, fiasco, Charlie Foxtrot in Columbia – believe the SEC Network public scrutiny and WWL expletives may have led the SEC Command Control Center to try and exercise some Quality Control.
High Time imo.
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The problem is the replay official is part of the crew. They should be separate from the crew. Notice that in most cases the referee who is the crew chief is never overturned. The review official is really just a CYA guy who tries to keep the totally inapt field crew from looking like idiots. They usually reverse only the totally stupid. It is almost universally recognized by SEC fans that if the head office wants a certain outcome they get it. The years that Alabama had no holding calls for the whole year, that was possible wasn’t it. The bane of all but the elite programs is the judgment call from which there can be no protest. These calls let the SEC work their special; magic. The flags thrown from across the field by an official that couldn’t have seen the play close enough. The failure to discuss the call with the official right on the spot. All of these give SEC fans a special feeling for our officials. Hell I’m happy when the ACC officials call Clemson or GT games, they suck less than SEC ones.
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How does a Auburn always get away with something?
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Tradition.
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Some programs spend a lot of time charting officials tendencies, plus essentially dare officials to throw 100 flags on them, especially at home. Happens in all sports.
It works. How often do you hear TV announcers essentially calling out a coach whose team has a figurative toe over the line all game long? They complain that the calls make the game less enjoyable and rip the officials “for not letting the players decide the game.”
CCFB officiating: a job I would never take for any amount of money.
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What I find even more amazing than the incompetence of SEC officiating crews is the fact that while Auburn has trouble with simple numerals 1 through 10, put a dollar sign, a decimal point and a bunch of zeros after the decimal point and they understand things perfectly.
Go figure.
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