Warning about referee complaining...

[OreBama]

I won't accuse the refs of outright bias, but they were very clearly inept. Most of the calls went to the home team. It happens. I can be philosophical about this, because we won.

The only one I cannot forgive is the bad spot they gave our TE, Williams and didn't even bother to review it after giving Arky an extra play earlier to review a spot, but I digress.

 

[TupeloTideFan]

I think both sides seen some bad calls and bad non calls. I'll be the first hog fan to step up and say the Lowery call was bad. I don't think any of the calls affected the outcome of the game. I think the out bounds hit and facemask call was their way of saying no call
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Simple is (editing myself - should have been a facemask and nothing more). Even a blind pig (REF) should scratch up an acorn every now and then.
BUT, on the bright side, roasted pork and smoked zebra tonite!:biggrin2:

 

[Black Warrior]

I was just looking at the tivo again and with 14.25 left in the half, McElroy passed the ball to Williams whose forward progress took him just inside the Arky 42 yd. line. The ref again runs to the spot and puts the ball a half yard on the midfield side of the 42, thus causing the play to be about a foot shy of a 1st down. I seriously hope somebody makes a recording of all these obvious homer reffing errors and sends it to the SEC office. There's definitely something afoul with the reffing crews in the SEC. That Big 10 +2 crew for Penn State also sucked big time.

Something just smells rotten here. I mean, how many times can something go against all logic before we conclude that somebody's on the take.

 

[64met]

even my wife was flipping out on the bogus call on Lester. The PI call, I about lost my mind. Everyone agrees the SEC is the best in college football w/the best athletes and coaches. So, how in the world can the refs be as BAD as they are every weekend? Its a joke

RTR!!!!

 

[davefrat]

i think phil fulmer was the replay umpire. they overturned the 4th and 1 call in favor of the hogs without anything resembling deliberations and then didn't even bother to review the long pass play where the kids leg almost got bent off. i'm not saying he was out, but it was certainly close enough on the replay i saw to review it. and yes, the interference call on lester was utterly ridiculous. to their credit, however, the announcers said it was a bad call.

 

[kayakerjess]

I don't think it was bias by the officials, but there were some poor calls, and most of them went Arkansas's way.

I still can't believe they reviewed the spot on that 4th and 1 and gave them the 1st down. On the replay it looked like the receiver was already out of bounds as he was reaching out for the 1st down marker. There was no conclusive angle that showed him making the mark, but it still got overturned.

The one that went our way that I thought should have gone for ARK was on Greg's fumble. To me, it looked like that lineman recovered the fumble and had possession before fumbling it out of bounds. I'm glad we got that call because they really had the momentum at that point in the game and a fumble right then could have really cost us.

 

[BamaBuc]

I was really impressed with the adjustments we made in the 2nd half. The defense held them to 3 points, and Mark Ingram, not enough can be said about him. I think we beat Arkansas and the Refs today. I am still miffed in the first half we had our 1st down become a 4th and 1 due to a bad spot.

Arkansas did play a heck of a game. I wonder who will get the calls when Arkie and the Barn play?

Well the barn were getting the spots last night against USC! I saw at least 4 times in the first half, the line judge coming in and spotting the ball at least a 1/2 foot to a full foot closer to the 1st down mark! SEC officiating is still around!

 

[Black Warrior]

I still can't believe they reviewed the spot on that 4th and 1 and gave them the 1st down. On the replay it looked like the receiver was already out of bounds as he was reaching out for the 1st down marker. There was no conclusive angle that showed him making the mark, but it still got overturned.

After rewatching that on replay, the referee added almost 2 yards to the forward progress to give them the first down. That is either gross incompetence or somebody's getting paid by bookies to make those calls. There are no other explanations that will work for me.

 

[GA_Tide]

Also, I believe more time should have run off the clock after the 3rd down play at the end of the game. I thought it would go well under minute. GMAC seemed to have a very animated discussion about it with the ref.

 

[Johnwants#15]

Also, I believe more time should have run off the clock after the 3rd down play at the end of the game. I thought it would go well under minute. GMAC seemed to have a very animated discussion about it with the ref.

Even gary said 45 seconds would remain at the time we would punt.. The clock showed 54.. strange..
By my math it should have been 45 also.

 

[Hamilton]

They conveniently stopped the clock to measure. That's the reason there was so much time.

 

[Tidewater]

They conveniently stopped the clock to measure. That's the reason there was so much time.

I thought so too, but, once the refs had measured and determined it was not a 1st down, shouldn't the refs then restart the game clock and start the play clock?

 

[CoastGhost]

My favorite was the PI call - any thinking person knows it was not ... and the ref seems poised and waiting to find a reason to throw his flag.

 

[REBELZED]

Predictably, the Hog fans think it was a well called game

At Least We Didn't Get Taken to the Cleaners by the Refs

 

[Hamilton]

I thought so too, but, once the refs had measured and determined it was not a 1st down, shouldn't the refs then restart the game clock and start the play clock?

Correct me if I'm wrong. I've always thought that the play clock should be paused and that both should be started once the measurement has been made, but I don't think that's the case. It's why McElroy was getting on the ump.

 

[RamJamHam]

Hard to block a guy in the back and make him fall backwards ... but Hanks managed to defy the laws of physics! Watch the reply and tell me which way he goes.

I've watched this play numerous times and I have yet to see Hanks touch the guy. If you watch it closely, he pulls away at the last minute and the guy gets blasted by (I think) Dial. As Coast Ghost said, it's hard to get blocked in the back and fall backwards. That official made a basketball call and called what he thought he saw.

The Lester and Lowery calls were horrible, but the Lester call did look pretty bad at full speed. Then again, isn't that what the officials are being paid for? To get it right at full speed?

 

[bamacon]

I stopped counting the holds that were missed. A couple were full tackles that were ignored. I can see some holds getting missed but these were really really bad.

 

[rolltide7854]

I guess the REC is finally having cash flow problems. The refs didn't let us lose, called just enough against us to make it close so we will come thru next week against the gaytors. LOL

 

[CmdrThor]

I thought so too, but, once the refs had measured and determined it was not a 1st down, shouldn't the refs then restart the game clock and start the play clock?

Yes but after the measurement the clock starts with a 25 second play clock. Otherwise the game clock would have been running with the standard 40 second play clock after a play ends. It was kind of annoying because the play was quite short of the first down, but the referee and clock operator did nothing technically wrong.

 

[Hamilton]

Yes but after the measurement the clock starts with a 25 second play clock. Otherwise the game clock would have been running with the standard 40 second play clock after a play ends. It was kind of annoying because the play was quite short of the first down, but the referee and clock operator did nothing technically wrong.

The referee did, by calling for a measurement when it was clearly short. Those 15 seconds make a difference.