Tuesday, October 20, 2009

SEC officials have done it again.

Anybody who watched the Florida vs Arkansas game and saw the personal foul call on Malcolm Sheppard of Arkansas knew right away that the SEC officiating crew had blown another call. I am very tempted to watch the game again and count how many times I saw Tim Tebow do the Gator Chomp after running for a first down, but as everyone knows there is no official that will ever throw a flag against "the best player ever in college football", according to some people in the media. I am sure that most SEC fans know now that this was the same officiating crew that called the Georgia vs LSU game. There are quite a few things about this that I am pretty fired up about.

1. How many times is the SEC going to come out and admit that there officials made a mistake when calling a game and not do anything to penalize the official or officials that made the mistake?

2. The SEC has come out and stated that there definition for "excessive celebration" is when a player directly makes a gesture towards the crowd or an opposing player. If this is what they are trained to call then why do only certain players or teams get this called against them?

3. Why would an officiating crew that blew a major call in a nationally televised game against two highly ranked teams be assigned to another game of the same magnitude? They should have been calling the Mississippi State vs Middle Tennessee State game last week. Supposedly this week they are calling the Tennessee vs Alabama game. You probably would not want to be the Tennessee Volunteer's this week. With the reputation the crew is getting if Tennessee is about to upset a top 5 SEC team they will make sure that it does not happen.

As many SEC fans know, we do have the worse officials in the NCAA, which I think is pretty sad considering that the SEC is year in and year out arguably the best conference in the NCAA. You do have to start asking yourself questions after the calls this year. Are there things going on with the SEC officials that people do not know. I have been reading some pretty interesting conspiracy theories over the past two days as to why the SEC officals are so bad but more importantly why nothing is being done to correct these errors. Perhaps the NCAA should be in charge of all officals and the conference no longer has a say.

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