Since Miles won't say anything, I will. This is beyond bad officiating. It's so undeniably awful, I'm beginning to believe conspiracy nuts who claim the SEC is protecting its heavyweight teams (Florida and Alabama) since, you know, every poor call in the last month has involved, uh, Florida and Alabama.
Conspiracy theorists about SEC officiating might be on to something - Matt Hayes - College Football - Sporting News. A mainstream sports journalist is saying it now. For the record, I don't buy into any conspiracy theory about the SEC protecting Bama and Florida through deliberately poor officiating. A conspiracy that large would depend on probably a dozen or more people being involved, and I just can't see such a conspiracy possibly holding silent. Plus, if the conspiracy were to break, a lot more harm would be done to the SEC than would be worth risking to get the benefit gotten. I just think the officiating is bad, and has been for years. I will forever remember 2007 not only as the year of LSU's national championship, but also as the year in which it was a 15 yard penalty to hit a quarterback who was almost out of bounds. This year we have had 4 games (LSU vs. Georgia, Mississippi State vs. Florida, Arkansas vs. Florida, LSU vs. Alabama) marred by demonstrably bad calls or difficult-to-defend judgment calls on big plays at critical times. It's impossible to say with any confidence that any of the calls were decisive in the games in which they occurred, but there is just no reason why the SEC should be plagued with this.
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Bama fans are missing the point
It’s not who the bad calls are benefiting, its that they’re this mind blowingly bad.
Plus, when you get a call wrong, and then fail to overturn it on a replay you’ve officially gotten it wrong twice.
I didn't
see any Bama fans making any points in this post. ???
by HarveyBirdmanAAL on Nov 8, 2009 4:42 PM CST up reply actions
How was there indisputable evidence that Peterson caught it in bounds?
I believe it very well might have been a pick, but there just simply was no angle that showed he clearly had a foot in bounds. Yes, I understand your frustration, but the replay official did what he was supposed to do. He can’t use his opinion on the matter, he has to have the visual evidence.
He had the ball in his hands with a foot down. Caught.
There was no movement. He was tucking the ball in complete control. One foot. And then he tapped his toe. The only thing even remotely disputable was that SECOND foot, which of course wasn’t even necessary.
It was caught. The end.
You have to make a "football move". Just because it goes right into his hands,
doesn’t mean he’s caught it. He has to make that move. He made it, but the problem is whether or not the right foot was in bounds or not, and there is no proof either way. If they’d called it in INT on the field, then the replay official would have stuck with that, and it’s the same reason he stuck with the incomplete ruling, because there wasn’t anything conclusive.
And to be perfectly honest,
do you really think LSU would have marched down the field and scored? They only had 9ish yards in the entire fourth quarter. It’s not like the INT would have turned them into an offensive juggernaut and cause them to move 60 yards down the field.
I never said that was why LSU lost
I said it was a catch. And you do not have to make a football move that’s the NFL. You have to have possession of the ball and one foot. Peterson had one and arguably had two.
You want to argue you’d will won, that’s a valid argument. But it was absolutely an interception.
It's debatable on the left foot. You're the first one I believe I've heard that even argues the left foot.
Everyone is talking about the right foot which you clearly can’t tell where it was.
But anyway. I'm done with this. Conspiracy theories are dumb,
and there’s no way the refs could have planned for this to happen. If he’d intercepted it and taken it to the end zone and they called it back, then I might believe it, but not for this. And this is the first play this year that was at most very questionable that went in favor of Bama. And it wasn’t even something that definitely messed LSU up and kept them from winning. If LSU was banking the game on an INT so they could win the game, that’s poor game preparation anyway. And Billy, I’m just saying this in general, not to you specifically.
You can see the divot from the left foot, quite clearly.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/writers/andy_staples/11/07/lsu.alabama/T1_1107_cleatstaples.jpg
I don’t know if that picture will work, but if not just go the story on si.com about it. Also, I may be wrong but I think the “football move” thing is when determining whether or not it was a fumble or an incompletion. You usually don’t have time to make a “football move” when you’re going out of bounds.
And of course you’re right, there’s absolutely no guarantee that we would’ve gone down the field and scored, but it sucks that we have to wonder. Especially since it was a reviewable play, not something made on the field in the heat of the moment.
idiot
lsu was banking on an interception to win the game.. which they did. it has nothing to do with poor preperation, its what you look for when theres little time left in the 4th and the other team has the ball. youre an idiot, stop posting and run into traffic.
by disgustabug on Nov 11, 2009 12:43 PM CST up reply actions
yet another moron
you ever see lsu comebacks in the past? probably not cause youre a moron.
by disgustabug on Nov 11, 2009 12:46 PM CST up reply actions
This is incorrect.
jsholt969 says you have to make a “football move.” This is not the case. The term “football move” is from the NFL rule book, and it is not a part of the NCAA rules. (Actually, I think the NFL has changed its wording to get rid of the vague “football move” nonsense.
Maybe there is a good argument for not ruling that play an interception. I haven’t heard that good argument, and anything with “football move” in the argument is wrong. Go download the rule book from the ncaa.org and search for the words “football move.” You will not find it; it’s an irrelevant concept, jsholt969.
It was certainly a catch...
no question about it. The refs blew it.
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by Mulliganville on Nov 9, 2009 12:01 AM CST up reply actions
really??
he needed visual evidence? as if there wasnt any? are you ignorant? blind? a moron? go google image a picture of it, theres evidence from every angle he had BOTH feet in. youre a disgrace.
by disgustabug on Nov 11, 2009 12:41 PM CST up reply actions
No LSU fan ever said that call wasn't bad
At least there was an equally stupid one against LSU in that game.
I’d say spotting the ball 2 inches from our goal line after your players touched it at the 3 was an equally stupid call.
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
So was watching a Bama defensive lineman
Push an LSU lineman back by his facemask.
Do not play “who got screwed on calls” with us Bammer. We got a long list from yesterday.
I will say I was at the game and was in a good position to see that punt
I did not see us touch the ball. I would tell you if I did.
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by Richard Pittman on Nov 8, 2009 6:05 PM CST up reply actions
well it sure looked like it on TV.
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
Again, it sucks to play the what if game
but even if you were at the 3, McElroy got sacked a good 4 or 5 yards into the endzone.
what I’m thinking is that because of the spot we had to burn a play on a QB sneak just to get some room, which then affected the play calling since we only had 2 plays to go the rest of the way. With the ball spotted on the 3 initially, we could have been more conservative and tried to ground out the first down with 3 runs, or at least gotten more room for a throw on second/third down with a legit run on first.
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
The guy who downed the punt was standing on the goal line
should have been a touchback anyhow
No, not according to the rules of college football.
In college football it does not matter if a player is in the end zone when he downs a punt. What matters is the position of the ball. You are confusing the college rule with the NFL rule.
Conspiracy or Coincidence?
Richard, I am as reluctant to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon, however, the Law of Averages allows that at some point the game changing bad call will go against the “protected team”. Are you able to show even one of those. No because both Alabama and Florida are undefeated. Isn’t that nice!
I remember you once said that you do not believe in coincidence. We cannot have it both ways. If the these are just :“honest mistakes or bad officiating”, please show me the evidence counselor, to support the Law of Averages.
If, counselor, you cannot, is it not then reasonable to consider that in some dark room at the SEC office some small private body of men have made a decision and are executing it.
Conspiracy or Coincidence?
Law of averages needs a large sample set.
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by Richard Pittman on Nov 8, 2009 5:38 PM CST up reply actions
So a bad call is only a bad call if it directly influences the game?
What about missed calls?? I can think of several that were against bama against lsu and tenn yet since WE WON (RTR) you wont allow them in your dumb law of averages…sorry I thought it was an interception too but no conspiracy just a hard fought game in which the better team won. Cya next year
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by The Voice of Reason on Nov 9, 2009 11:12 AM CST up reply actions
That's all any of us here are saying
The bad calls weren’t what decided the game (personally I think the injuries were way bigger), but that doesn’t mean they weren’t terrible calls.
The SEC should be above this crap.
by Billy Gomila on Nov 9, 2009 12:06 PM CST up reply actions
Potentially game changing bad calls against Bama
The safety. Pass was towards Ingram. Not intentional grounding.
Missed obvious block in the back against Mark Barron on your first TD drive.
Running into the punter (resulting in 4th and 1) instead of roughing (first down).
Decent refs, much less refs in the bag, make every one of those calls the other way. Next argument.
but for the sake of the conspiracy theorists,
they should have called it an incomplete pass and roughing the kicker, because that would have definitely helped Bama secure the victory…
You want to compare lists?
LSU’s is at least twice as long as that one.
Be gone. You’re never going to win this argument. The refs were terrible. They weren’t the deciding factor, but they did play a roll.
The pass hit a lineman in the back.
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by Richard Pittman on Nov 8, 2009 6:41 PM CST up reply actions
you're better than that..
even if it did..there was a “receiver” in the area. Just sayin…
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big shocker...
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I really wish we would knock it off with regard to the officiating gripes.
It’s just so bush league, and we should be better than that (we have lost to arguably the two best teams in the country, and didn’t exactly get taken to the woodshed either time). I didn’t like some of the calls, but I thought our injuries had more to do with the loss than anything else. That, and Bama remembered Ingram was dressed out in the second half.
Here's the bottom line
you guys do have a right to be upset about the call, not that you haven’t benefited from worse calls in this series (2004 no call on pass interference). What I think most of us Bama fans are upset about is that the call seemed to be the headline on every sports site, and that’s not right. This conspiracy crap is just ridiculous. First it was that we cheated Tennessee out of a second shot at a winning field goal when Cody wasn’t flagged for taking his helmet off, WHICH WAS 100% WRONG. Even if it had been called, we still would have gotten the ball and the game would have been over. But no, it was a conspiracy!
the interception review was questionable, but it’s not anything that you don’t see on any given saturday IN ANY COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
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Hi Zoltar
LSU fan here.
Yeah, I think the call was bad. It looked like an interception, and I tend to be pretty good about being unbiased even when it relates to my team.
I think you got it right though. LSU might have gotten screwed out of a chance to win the game, but it was no guarantee. They even still had a chance to stop Alabama from scoring the field goal that put the game out of reach after the call, but couldn’t.
And because of that, Alabama (or specifically, Alabama fans) are getting screwed too. Now they have to justify whether their team deserves a win because a call that may or may not have changed the game. And that’s just not fair. As LSU fans know from the Georgia game, it really does taint a win in terms of national perception when it really shouldn’t. If it was a bad call on a game deciding play at the last second of the game, it would be one thing. But it wasn’t. The refs could have gotten it right and Alabama still might (and probably) would have won.
Ignore the snap judgements and enjoy the win. You have a hell of a team, and regardless of the call, winning out will certainly make you worthy of a national title.
by TheBobLoblawBlog on Nov 8, 2009 10:12 PM CST up reply actions
Amen POOP
Great Game Hokies! What a battle!
by The Voice of Reason on Nov 9, 2009 11:13 AM CST up reply actions
SEC officials
Ever since I watched the 2007 LSU/FL game, I have had my suspicions about SEC officiating. It’s not so much that I believe in some sort of mass conspiracy theory…I just don’t see how you keep something like that secret. But what I’ve always wondered about is sort of like a “good ole boy” network type of thing. Nothing real organized, rarely spoken of type thing…or maybe not even that conspiratorial…maybe just one or two guys acting seperate and maybe even with no knowledge of the other for their own gain, whatever that may be. Sort of like the NBA ref thing I saw somebody else mention…In other words not some big dramatic directive and overt corruption…but maybe just subtle no-calls or borderline calls called a consistent way….Now why did this come from the 2007 FL/LSU game? First of all I admit by bias toward LSU (hence my user name) but please remember LSU won that game and the national championship, so there is no axe to grind here. From my seats in the stadium during that game I saw two instances of a no call by the same official that frankly few other people could have seen. I have never seen the TV replay, but one non call may not have looked like much, as it was indeed called by another official, albeit much farther removed from the play than the official that should have called it…but the other could not have been possibly picked up by TV and unless your seats were close to the field AND at the proper angle to the FL sideline, you could not have even noticed it inside the stadium. The first non call came when LSU was close to scoring, in the first half if I remember correctly, in the north endzone. There was a pass attempt to an LSU receiver who was pushed down before the ball even got there. The one official who had the best angle, and it happened not too far from, just blew the play dead and incomplete. It was such an obvious penalty that an official twice as far from the play, threw in the flag. At that time I really didn’t think much of it because hey, they got the call right…maybe the official didn’t see it, they’re a team and one picked up the other’s slack, etc. etc. This changed for me later in the game when it was FL in the red zone of the north endzone. Don’t remember the down, exact distance, etc. but FL was in the huddle, the SAME official was near the sideline, his back to the FL bench, face toward the FL huddle. My seats for that game were second row up in the corner of the endzone, so basically the official was in between me and the FL sideline, obviously closer to the FL sideline. As we were carrying on we noticed this intense, frantic shouting and gesturing coming all of a sudden from the FL sideline. Yelling things like, “GET OUT, GET OUT!” etc. We immediately realized they had twelve men in the huddle…this official who was closer to them than us and we heard it, just stood stoic and motionless lending a deaf ear to the whole thing! FL breaks the huddle, guy goes to the sideline, and this official never flinches!!! Made his previous non call that much more interesting.
I mentioned this in another post, but for the sake of getting my point across...
I don’t know why people think that THIS year is any worse for officials than any other year. I swear I can remember a game, many years ago, where the referees gave Colorado five downs to score a touchdown near the goal line. Until that happens, I think we need to keep some perspective.
by HarveyBirdmanAAL on Nov 8, 2009 11:46 PM CST reply actions
Yes...against Missouri I believe.
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by Mulliganville on Nov 9, 2009 12:08 AM CST up reply actions
Nothing that bad...
… but I still feel the Iowa-Indiana game is this year’s gold standard for lousy officiating.
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how so?
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Did you see the game?
The replay overturn of Indiana’s TD inspired one hell of a rant on CFN. It was pretty awful. There were about five calls in that game that went against IU which ranged from kind of bad to I think the refs are getting paid awful.
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no i didn't see the game..
Iowa/ Indiana isn’t a game that i purposefully try to watch.
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I saw it
It was the gold standard for ALL officiating conspiracy talk.
Not only did the on field officials seem to be completely in the bag for Iowa but the reply crew was just plain criminal.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
Yeah but if it's a reviewable play
the replay official should get it right. He has all the time and resources in the world to make the right call.
I havent read all the comments...
but I just want to say, if you are a die hard SEC/LSU fan, as most SEC team fans are. I wouldnt reccomend supporting the notion that our league is fixed. Because the entire league will be questioned and not just this season, but every season in the past era, ever since the SEC started to dominated the BCS rankings will be in question. So unless you want your two championships that you earned questioned I would SHUT UP WITH THE CONSPIRACY!
I think it really just boils down to...
incompetence. I stated earlier in another post that I don’t believe the official running up the sideline after the incomplete pass saw that Peterson had the football. I think he only saw that Julio didn’t have it. The entire time he was in the area he was looking for help from the other officials on the field. When none came, I think he just ruled it an incomplete pass. It was after this, I think, when he saw that Peterson actually had the ball and he couldn’t rule on something he didn’t see.
After cooling off Saturday night, I came to the similar conclusion that most rational fans came to. That call did not lose the game for us. There were a couple of other plays before that one that could have changed the complexion of the game, namely the running into the kicker penalty. What the hell is that dude doing going balls out to block that punt when we have a return called?
This is one of the plays, I believe, where we probably lost any chance to win the game, not on an officials call. It still pissed me off, though. My wife was actually nervous that I was going to launch my remote into my TV.
Overall, officiating has been real crappy for the last couple of years. I’m not just looking at this one game. There are numerous instances over the last couple of seasons where teams have had legitimate gripes about poor offciating. These guys need to be held accountable and the possibility of a professional officiating crews should be, at least, examined.
BTW, one of the most intense games that I have watched in a while. After I settled down, I noticed that I wasn’t too disappointed in the effort.
Sorry about the early morning rambling, but I’m at work waiting on relief and wanted to vent.
Conspiracy theory
I’m an Alabama fan and I really thought the interception call was wrong. The thing I think is stupid is the people think that there is a conspiracy to prop up Florida and Alabama because their undefeated. Why would officials even care about that? Because the SEC pays them big bucks to officiate? Please.
If there WAS a conspiracy – and let me be clear, I don’t think there is – it makes more sense to me that it would be designed around protecting a betting line (and making money from it). That was what the NBA ref got busted for, and it makes a lot more sense than a conspiracy to help teams stay undefeated for some vague conference championship reason. The problem with this is that multiple officials, not to mention multiple officiating crews, would have to be in on the fix, and that just doesn’t seem likely.
I think we can agree that bad calls are not only common, but contagious, especially when the refs start getting gun shy and letting things go (which has happened a lot in my opinion since the LSU-Georgia/Arkansas-Florida controversies).
by 12NationalChampionships on Nov 9, 2009 11:24 AM CST reply actions
Apologies...
for the the “their undefeated” line. That’s a pet peeve of mine.
by 12NationalChampionships on Nov 9, 2009 11:25 AM CST up reply actions
For the record...
… I don’t think anyone here has alleged a conspiracy. In fact, if anyone has alleged that, they are a moron. Our officials are not corrupt, they are incompetent. Totally different.
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Not necessarily off-topic, but certainly a change in gears.
What are everyone’s thoughts on the NCAA moving to football-wide officiating crews, as opposed to the current system of conference-specific crews? It could certainly crack down on the conspiracy theories (“the SEC wants UF to win the BCS title”) but would likely just breed more (“the NCAA is protecting her cash cows”).
It would, however, cause me to stop hanging my head in frustration at the fact that the richest conference in football can’t hire a half-dozen guys whose heads aren’t firmly burrowed into their own buttholes.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Nov 9, 2009 11:41 AM CST reply actions
Very much agree
Hell look at the bowls…think teams from any other conference want SEC officials calling their bowl game?
by Billy Gomila on Nov 9, 2009 12:06 PM CST up reply actions
Completely agree
I keep going back to Iowa-Indana, which was borderline criminal. That was Big Ten refs trying to preserve the two team pay day. I also hate it when there is a cross regional matchup and it becomes an issue what conference the officials are from. I’d love to see NCAA refs that are monitored and rated by the NCAA, so the best refs work the biggest games.
We should have had the elite crew for this game. Instead we had the SEC refs.
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by Billy Gomila on Nov 9, 2009 11:07 PM CST up reply actions
Here is my thought..
I think the refs are scared. They are so paranoid about making the wrong call, that they 2nd guess themselves and end up making the wrong call. These guys live on a very thin line and i for one wouldn’t want their job.
A guy above stated that it was incompetence that made the ref choose to call the play an “incomplete pass”. That he couldn’t see what happened and that forced him to call what he did see. I wouldn’t say this is incompetence but just a guy who couldn’t see exactly what happened and made the only call he could. Sure he had one job, which is to see if the guy made the catch but if i remember correctly, there were a lot players around and that play happened very fast….It would have almost been impossible to make the absolute right call in that situation.
With replay, refs are waiting longer..longer…and longer to blow the whistle. The situation i notice it the most is with a guys forward progress being stopped but the play is allowed to continue, he gets loose and gets the 1st down. Most of the time the whistle should have been blown seconds before but because the refs are afraid to make the wrong call, the play is allowed to continue..
I think you saw this with the INT call. What if the ref had called an INT but it really wasn’t. The replay doesn’t show conclusive evidence to over turn and LSU gets the ball. I think we’d all be having the same conversation but this time, it would be the Bama fans yelling. He didn’t for whatever reason, and you guys are all up in arms. Same goes for the UT fans crying about Cody taking off his face mask…In both situations, it seems like fans are just looking for something to bitch about. Over the years there has been so many missed calls but at the end of the day..shit happens. In fact, Alabama has gotten some really bad calls THIS year but god forbid we say anything…I guess only the losing team can bitch..
Anyways…Refs have an unbelievably hard job and i don’t think they get enough credit. Sure, there are times when you think..WTF?!?! But right now they are under a lot of pressure and sometimes that pressure can make them get the right call, called..wrong.
I think you saw this with the INT call. What if the ref had called an INT but it really wasn’t. The replay doesn’t show conclusive evidence to over turn and LSU gets the ball. I think we’d all be having the same converstation but this time, it would be the Bama fans yelling. He didn’t for whatever reason, and you guys are all up in arms. Same goes for the UT fans crying about Cody taking off his face mask…In both situations, it seems like fans are just looking for something to bitch about. Over the years there has been so many miss calls but at the end of the day..shit happens. In fact, Alabama has gotten some really bad calls but god forbid we say anything…I guess only the losing team can bitch..
Anyways…Refs have an unbelieable hard job and i don’t think the get enough credit. Yes there are times when you think..WTF?!?! But right now they are under a lot of pressure and sometimes that pressure can make them get the right called..wrong.
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Why is it
That referees are the only people on Planet Earth that can have their incompetence forgiven with “its a hard job,” ???
Coaching’s a hard job too and nobody is nearly as forgiving (“especially in Alabama” — said Bill Curry) as we are expected to be when a referee screws up.
The problem is that this season, bad officiating is the theme of the SEC. It’s the best damn conference in college football. That should NEVER be the case.
Im not giving them a pass.
but expecting them to be perfect is just plain stupid…
And btw..formating FAIL on my original post…wtf happend there?
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Expecting
Expecting them not to be worse than the Pac 10 is not expecting perfection, it’s asking for a minimum level of competence.
NO ONE that I have seen has claimed that we would have won – we just don’t think this should be an issue week after week after week and Mike Slive leveling fines and threatening suspension for coaches that are obviously sick of it just makes the conspiracy nuts look like they might have a point.
It is ridiculous for the SEC to have to deal with this. Find, hire and develop the best refs in the business, we can afford it.
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I think you've hit upon something here..
The problem the SEC has is that it treats coaches complaining about bad officiating as if THEY are the problem, rather than the bad officiating. This feeds into the notion that the SEC doesn’t care about the state of its officials but rather cares only that the coaches toe the line.
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by Richard Pittman on Nov 9, 2009 6:38 PM CST up reply actions
Maybe you can excuse the on-field official
But the play was freaking reviewed! There’s no way in heck he should’ve gotten that call wrong.
Dissapointed
I am of course a big Crimson Tide fan but I thought the int call was horrible. I want my team to win but I want them to win by being the better team, I hate controversies that may or may not have effected the game. You can’t help the fact that calls get blown, I hope it all evens out you know, I was surprised how good LSU was, or perhaps how inept Alabama’s offense still is. There must be a lot of respect for LSU out there, they have lost to the #1 and the #2, there ranking went from #9 to #8 after the loss.
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I was greatly disappointed that the Tigers did not come back and have aq last minute win. I was also disappointed that the Tigers did not get “THE CALL” as it undoubtedly will become known. However, I come from the days before replay, and in most instances, televised games. We had the pleasure of listening to the game and such actions came to us through the eyes of the play by play announcer. We could and/or would complain but we did not have the dubious “advantage” of replay where everyone who saw the game on TV, or in person, or on the net, or in the numerous replays of “The Call” interpreted it through their own glasses.
We are no longer talking about a great game (at least for three quarters) but are talking about one play that may or may not have lost the game for LSU. Simply stated, we should not have been in the position that one play could have such a dramatic impact. Injuries really hurt and mental mistakes caused additional pain. But it was still a great SEC game between two deserving powerhouses until it was “ruined” by replay. Sometimes greater technology can become oppressive.
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