In their 9 SEC games, Bama penalized for offensive holding in just ONE...

[MedDawg]

Bama was penalized twice for offensive holding against UK on 10/3/09. Since then, Bama has been called for holding a couple times on special teams--noted on another board was "Bama's last holding call" on a kickoff vs South Carolina on 10/17--but their offense has not been penalized for holding.

Against UM on 10/10/09 holding was called against their offense but the penalty was not accepted as it was 3rd down and Bama was stopped short of getting a first down near UM's goal line. Taking the penalty would have given Bama another shot at a TD. <div class="messagebody">

Before that, once in their game vs North Texas, twice in their game against Florida International, and twice vs Virginia Tech.

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[DirtyLopez]

why am i not surprised?</p>

 

[BigMotherTucker]

If there is a God in heaven, they will all hit vs. Texas.

 

[Rabid]

We need officials with a little professionalism and integrity in our conference. This is pathetic.

 

[FlabLoser]

..especially with holding. Wasn't just Bama, although Bama surely got the more generous end of the new officiating. SEC refs generallk didn't call holding much on anybody all year.

And I have to say this year far and away takes the cake for poor SEC officiating. One-the-field officiating consistently sucks. The replay official was obviously completely useless. Not just in our games, but in every game I saw this year. Its been a spectacularly bad year for SEC officiating.

The kicker is, all the ineptitude seems to have been on purpose from the direction of Rogers Redding. He directed the SEC refs to call it they way the ALL called it this year. He also directed the replay official to be completely useless, and defended that policy many times.

Rogers Redding needs to go. And there's your SPS Douchebag of the Year nominee from me.