was it judt me or did the officials decide to keep the yellow flag in their pockets unless they just felt like throwing it. also was the replay not avaliable for this game? there were two big pass plays by auburn that the replay showed on one the receiver bobbled the ball and didn't control it until he was out of bounds and the other the receiver bobbled the ball and as he hit the ground the ball was loose and hit the ground and wasn't controlled. there were also two big lsu pass plays that should have been flagged for holding, very obvious holds not borderline. i think it was obvious that jr's hand is still bothering him, way too many underthrowned balls.
I thought the officials let both defenses get away with too much all night. Seriously, it seemed like any amount of jostling and grabbing was allowed as well as getting there before the ball. And this isn't sour grapes because I thought we should have been flagged a few times on it too. It just seemed like they were only going to call it if it was an absolute mugging.
SEC head ref apologized to Miles for 4 bad calls after last week's game, I did also detect a lot of 'let 'em play' reffing going on. I saw several holds on Wroten and our other DL, and I saw at least 2 non PI calls that should have been called on LSU.
there was no bias and no severe non calls... Id love to see every game called like this... no one lost the game on a "landing on a player" call, or defensive holding on a kick
college football and pro football have had more flags thrown this year than the last several years, and this has been the center of many newspaper columns and sports shows. Refs should not determine games. Maybe there was some kind of midseason SEC ref meeting and they were asked to tone it down.
I thought the refs called a great game last night, calling penalties on plays where they believe a team got an advantage only. They missed a few, but that is always going to be the case. I thought the push off by AU's WR's twice on important catches were the more obvious ones but I was happy with the calls, non calls for the most part.
I saw two obvious blown calls ... Addai pushing Russell on QB sneaks. On the second one, it looked like Addai pushed him down. :hihi: They really need to take the rule out of the rulebook...
If they would have called another "never" called penalty against us in an Auburn game, especially after all the play the push got last week they woudn't have been able to keep the fans off the field and would have gotten real ugly.
The refs let the teams play and only called really blatant penalties that actually affected the play. I like this much better than games where the flags fly for petty stuff and it seems like there are three teams out there.
