Q: With our incompetent SEC refs on display again last night

[MadDawg.sixpack]

it got me to thinking. Do you guys ever see a time where "replay officials" could review a play and make a call like the blatant pass interference call that was somehow missed last night?

I just want the game to be called right. And I'm ok with whatever it takes to make it happen.

 

[Irondawg]

No b/c as we know you can call holding on most every play so there would just be no way to enforce when to initiate a replay review or not. I really think the only way this changes is media pressure. If ESPN ran some sort of study and proved that there was a disturbing trend of 4th quarter calls/no-calls that went the way of the team that had more to lose (BCS berth, etc) then you might see some changes.

Otherwise it's going to keep happening to the lower half as it does now most of the time.

 

[Buford T. Justice]

I agree. We just want the correct call made.

What gets me is how incompetent some officials are. The call about Tyson Lee being over the line of scrimmage against Houston was maybe the worst ever. To this day, nobody admits to the mistake.

It pisses me off how the refs don't take responsibility for their actions. Remember the horrific call made by NFL ref Ed Hochuli in the Denver/San Diego game. Hochuli came out and said he blew it, had no excuse, and was sick about making the wrong call. The players and the fans forgave him quickly because he manned up and admit he screwed up. Same with the guy who goofed up the perfect game for the Detroit Tigers pitcher. 99.9% of these refs will never fess up to a mistake.

 

[starkvegasdawg]

I guess you could always have the rule where calls not involving interior linemen could be reviewed by coach's challenge provided they still had a challenge left in the game.

Personally, I think there should be a system in place that if a ref blows an obvious call like that then there is an incremental punishment scale that at some point involves suspension from calling games...I would say a one game suspension starts at 3rd infraction. If players can have their play reviewed after the fact and fines / suspensions levied as they are in the NFL then the officials should also face the same type of scrutiny. Don't have someone that can call a 15 yard penalty on a safety who just decleated a WR coming over the middle because his helmet may have brushed the other players in a split second decision in a game that moves as fast as D1 football and that ref not have to have some kind of accountability. In every organized sport the officials have been put up on a pedestal as being untouchable and that needs to change.

 

[thatsbaseball]

The question is why the "incompetence" always hurts the lower ranked team in an SEC matchup ? The chances of SoCar having an "incompetent" call go against them at the end of that game last night were nil and the whole college football world sees what the SEC is doing but there is simply too much money in play these days. Sucks

 

[Dawg Jurist]

It's always interesting to see when teams like Bama have the game in the bag, they start getting called for holding late in the 4th quarter. I guess the refs are trying to create plausible deniability.

 

[AROB44]

Didn't Bama go 2 or 3 years without a holding call? Need I say more.

 

[kired]

What about extra officials? With the game opening up so much today - spread offenses & more passing, I wonder if another official in the secondary would help? Seems like penalties like pass interference can easily be missed if your eyes are focused in the wrong spot. Where is a field or side judge supposed to focus on a deep pass down the sideline - does the WR have possession, does he step out of bounds, any interference? A lot happens in 1 second and if they blink or lose focus for just a second, they can miss an obvious call.

I personally hate replay & think it slows the game down. Especially when it's something that is clear like Lattimore's fumble - that was obvious. Why does it take more than 10 seconds to review that?

 

[patdog]

I think it was more like 10 games. Not that that's all that much less ridiculous.

 

[Cow College]

Bama did not get a holding call at all last year. Not one damn call. First team ever to not get one in a whole year

 

[RocketDawg]

Obviously, Bama plays a very clean game ...

and Saban runs a very clean program. What other explanation can there be?

Speaking of holding ... remember the BYU game back around '04 or so?

 

[prairiedawg]

That game was actually in '01

Speaking of holding ... remember the BYU game back around '04 or so?

It was played after the EB because of 9/11. I wouldn't even watch the BYU game on last night because of that game.