This ----- along with the handful of obvious flops causing some of the Offensive Fouls we got, were absolutely ridiculous......The thing that bothers me is that on all of those inbounds plays the defender (Auburn) was impeding the movement of the offensive player with their body. When that happens that it is a "hold" and should've been called before the "flagrant" foul. The thing is that the officials were allowing the contact. The officials are supposed to watch the movement of the defender when looking for fouls because that is how you are supposed to judge contact. You have to make sure that the defender is using correct defensive maneuvers and not impeding the movement of the offensive player with their body. Which that was happening all night on our inbound plays. I've only gotten one technical my whole coaching career, but I seriously don't think I would've made it to Halftime of that game. Now I know why Wimp was shaking his head in the crowd.
The officiating crew, the announcers and the whole production seemed like it was put together by Atari. After the announcers said that 6 of Bama's players were from Arkansas High School, I kept waiting to see if any of them went to the high school I attended in Jacksonville, Ark. What a joke!
Pearl has a "win by any means possible" approach -- I get that....but he's bad for the game