I agree. In the SEC we don't just miss one call a game, but sometimes several. With the review, after looking at it for a minute on replay, they still miss it flagrantly. The SEC needs to put more money into its referees, and TRAINING.
I'm with you and Graddin99 and would add to your list of putting more money into to equipment. If I'm not mistaken, do they not have access to the same vids as the broadcast. It seems like I had heard that......I'm not sure exactly but someone may be able to shed more knowledgeable light on the replay equipment issue.
Yeah, i understand that officials make mistakes but the reviews should make up for it. The college football review equipment is much inferior to the type they use in the NFL. a lot of the times, for some reason the replay officials do not get the best view of the play and are unable to make the right call. Like this story about having the wrong TV feed hooked up to the monitor http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-rosebowl-replay&prov=ap&type=lgns Well it doesn't help when you have idiots in the booth anyways...:nope:
Hell(o)just in case you ever wondered here it is The QuarterBack Test there are too many bad calls here in our back yards, we the fans want out team to win , no matter what the cost. We bet and someone wants us to lose our money , he could care less who wind , he just wants our money . Now you be ruinning yoor type set yhere , but just wait , we are going to get some bad calls at the start of the game . Just to change the tempo of the LSU team , do you think I am wrong ?? JR needs to take the QB test >> I flunked it I will not tell you a lie ! You believe that ??
It did appear that Russell did fumble the ball on that drive, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I don't have a problem with Phil complaining, SEC officiating is horrible at times. Somebody has to call them out.
I've heard that gripe about the TV angles for replay before. I think it's an absolute joke that they don't have a better system of reveiwing plays. I mean hell, if CBS can transmit a signal from a camera to a truck, up into space, and back down to my humble home a few hundred miles away from the stadium nearly instantly, with every replay angle available to me immediately after a play happens, then why the hell can't they beam a signal to a guy sitting couple hundred yards away? Here's an idea. Get a DirecTv receiver in the booth. Then the guy can watch the same thing the rest of America is seeing.
Agreed. They might as well get Tivo and record the game and rewind...freeze. but w/ these hometown folks doing the review, the integrity will always be in questions (ie Auburn). There's been too many games this year that has blown calls affecting the outcome. With the huge stash of cash the SEC is making every year, one would think they can afford the best equipment to make sure the game is won fairly...cheap bastards. As to LSU/Tenn - sure JR fumble it - BUT, if the zebras had the first review right - then LSU would have had a TD and fat phil would have to dug his team out of a big hole from the start. Didn't read anything from fat phil about the one, hmmm....
Well, I don't care for Fulmer, but be honest, the SEC officiating SUX!!! And they become even MORE of an embarrasment when the SEC office backs this pathetic display of officiating. So, in that reguard, I'm actually kinda glad someone has started to openly complain.
Here is a link describing the haphazard way that instant replay is implemented in college fb, which was posted on another thread. It sheds a lot of light on how exactly the process works, and its biggest failures and faults in its present form: http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=jo-replay111006&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Even though replay has only been around for a couple of seasons at the most, the lack of national standards and the way in which replay officials are hired/assigned is unacceptable. Fulmer is dead right about SEC officiating. This conference consistently offers the best teams and matchups, as well as the poorest officiating. This simply doesn't seem to be as big of a problem in other conferences. Take the Big 10, for example. From year to year, they have the best officials, and it shows at the end of the year when crews are assigned for bowl games. The SEC should demand no less from its own officials. Personally, I never understood the ban on publicly protesting officials' performance not just in college fb, but in the NFL and NBA. It gives the impression that officials are above criticism, and only encourages the "circle the wagons" approach taken by the league. Must be nice to have a job where no one has the right to criticize you for screwing up big when it counts. For me, the last straw was the SEC's "explanation" of the ball touching the glove, not the hand on the UT punt return. The SEC must have a state-of-the-art electron microscope to make the distinction between the fraction of an inch of glove and the hand underneath. Hell, they should use that to solve the Kennedy assassination. Seriously, when the SEC comes up with excuses like that, it's like they're not even trying to cover up how crooked they are, and only shows that this conference has no interest in improving its reputation and performance.
Simply no excuse not to have "State of the art" equipment. With 8 teams bowl eligible, maybe the SEC could use some of that money to ensure that our athletes (who generate the money anyway) can have the best instant replay equipment since we have the Best athletes. Would be nice to boast of that cause it's a problem in college football period.
