Something that's truly disturbing to me as a fan is the fact that the hit on Jalen was reviewed and the call was still missed even though it was an obviously illegal hit. That should not be happening.
Officiating across college football
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We might as well get use to Jalen taking some marginal to bad targeting because defenders always try to knock dual-threats out and the officiating seems to miss it more often with fast QBs for whatever reason.
He was a drop-back passer on that play.
As far as CYA, I don't know how. Having another layer of review was supposed to prevent that type of miss - not reinforce it for all the world to see. It simply raises more questions in my mind. It paints the SEC office in a not so flattering light however you interpret it.
Unless and/or until they change the new rule, I don't believe we'll be seeing many, if any, flags on the field for targeting. They will pass the buck to the replay booth, and in most cases the replay booth will pass it on to B'ham.
Why not?
It it is a classic good old boy network. They have now found a way to keep the older guys on payroll by letting them man command central in Birmingham
Then the NFL can finance college football instead of complaining about what is a completely free and unlimited farm system to which they contribute nothing.
Check out this targeting call in the Buffalo-Nevada game.
https://twitter.com/dustinfox37/status/778773011545616384
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That hit on Hurts reminded me of the yelling and screaming CBS did during halftime of the 2012 SECCG in regards to Quinton Dial's demonstrably LEGAL hit. The only one raising much of a ruckus was Danielson. Everyone else it was 'ho hum.'
I'm not claiming it won't have issues, but I am saying they need to do more to "get it right". At one time we didn't have the technology to do it... but now there's no excuse. I'm telling you, I would have gone ballistic if that mistaken call cost us the game Saturday.
there were some UGA fans still complaining about it the next day. trust me.
Wow, is there any way to explain that? That seemed textbook perfect defense to me. That indeed might be the worst targeting call of all time.
Let me clarify - everybody was complaining at CBS about Dial'*****; only Gary made a legitimate beef about the hit on Jalen.
Verne almost always never disagrees with Gary. He knows he's limited technically, so he just lets Gary rant...
Oh, I understand the system and exactly what's happening. It's just that Shaw was highly respected in the profession and on the field before he became a bureaucrat. Hell, he's even the coordinator of officials for the Sun Belt conference as well. I just thought he might actually make some changes for the better, certainly not anything like what happened Saturday...
I was more concerned after the targeting no call on Jalen Hurts that OM was trying to take our QB out. I was very disappointed with Shaw, he is just a pawn. I say shut down Bham central and keep it in the replay booth. Perhaps OM players were trying to get pay back for the hits on Chad Kelly, he took some pretty good hits but not cheap shots like the one on Hurts. I remember at one point in the game that I was thinking the Refs were trying to change the game where OM had a better chance of winning but they didn't account for Bama not willing to lay down. It seemed to really hurt OM when Bama came back so strong after the Targeting no call on Jalen.
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