Today we get an SEC win - Moo State comes to Arkansas GAME THREAD

[HOGSRUNWILD]

I had almost stopped being mad...now I'm fucking pissed all over again.

I hope those refs all die horrible deaths tonight.

[buff2.0]

Walt Coleman said the calls were all correct.

Fuck Walt Coleman.

[animal]

Probably a good 80 percent were correct

Also about 50 percent of those go uncalled usually

[BleedinRed]

Again, it isn't ALL about what they did call.  It is also about what they didn't call.  

[DirkPiggler]

Walt Coleman said the calls were all correct.

Fuck Walt Coleman.

The only occupational group I've seen stand up for each other in the face of clear evidence against one of their brethren to the same degree of sports officials is policemen.  That really isn't true...you occasionally find a cop who will have a crisis of conscience and blow the whistle on fellow officers' misdeeds. 

The only argument I've seen or heard that holds even a little bit of merit for the calls being right were that they were judgment calls that could have technically fit the definition of the rule.  But that's precisely the problem...when your judgment shows you something is a penalty on one team but a similar action by the other isn't called, you don't need to be in that profession. 

Our beloved SEC makes the problem worse with a complete lack of transparency.  They could do just like the ACC and show all replay deliberations in every game.  Why don't they? (Rhetorical - we all know the answer).  Why can't they publicly establish a grading scale for what is acceptable for their officials, and then publish the grades each week and suspend and/or terminate crews who consistently fail to meet the standard?  I get that there would be internet crazies doxxing them, threatening them, etc. and that's obviously wrong.  Pay them more so that it's worth the minimal risk. 

Maybe I'm naive, but I think that transparency would actually minimize those kinds of bad actions, as fans would know there was recourse for officials who failed to do their jobs.  If we felt confident that people like Marc Curles, Jason Autrey, and the crew from last Saturday's game would face repercussions for their lack of performance it would restore confidence in the entire community as well as the conference.  Instead we see the same crews each week, and in the rare event when an official or crew is reprimanded or suspended we only know about it when someone notices they aren't working a game in a particular week.  Curles got demoted from white hat to another position, yet we wouldn't have known it if someone hadn't seen him in a game working a different role.

[HOGSRUNWILD]

Again, there isn't one sane person that could watch that game and not KNOW the officials were biased.  I won't go into their motivations, be they personal or financial or they got marching orders from above, but EVERYONE knows they were biased.  That isn't even open for debate. They threw flags with glee against Arkansas, for every thing they could see and some they simply made up, while turning a blind eye to the same infractions against State.  It was blatant, it was obvious and I hope they fucking die horrible deaths for it.

There, I said it.

[HogOfWar]

The only occupational group I've seen stand up for each other in the face of clear evidence against one of their brethren to the same degree of sports officials is policemen.  That really isn't true...you occasionally find a cop who will have a crisis of conscience and blow the whistle on fellow officers' misdeeds. 

The only argument I've seen or heard that holds even a little bit of merit for the calls being right were that they were judgment calls that could have technically fit the definition of the rule.  But that's precisely the problem...when your judgment shows you something is a penalty on one team but a similar action by the other isn't called, you don't need to be in that profession. 

Our beloved SEC makes the problem worse with a complete lack of transparency.  They could do just like the ACC and show all replay deliberations in every game.  Why don't they? (Rhetorical - we all know the answer).  Why can't they publicly establish a grading scale for what is acceptable for their officials, and then publish the grades each week and suspend and/or terminate crews who consistently fail to meet the standard?  I get that there would be internet crazies doxxing them, threatening them, etc. and that's obviously wrong.  Pay them more so that it's worth the minimal risk. 

Maybe I'm naive, but I think that transparency would actually minimize those kinds of bad actions, as fans would know there was recourse for officials who failed to do their jobs.  If we felt confident that people like Marc Curles, Jason Autrey, and the crew from last Saturday's game would face repercussions for their lack of performance it would restore confidence in the entire community as well as the conference.  Instead we see the same crews each week, and in the rare event when an official or crew is reprimanded or suspended we only know about it when someone notices they aren't working a game in a particular week.  Curles got demoted from white hat to another position, yet we wouldn't have known it if someone hadn't seen him in a game working a different role.

Agreed. As long as there is no accountability or transparency, it will continue.

Nothing is going to happen to the crew unless they do the same thing against another team like Curles did back in 2009. He screwed LSU when they played against Florida and then again when we played Florida the following week. The SEC had no choice but to suspend them because it wss too blatant happening two weeks in a row.

[Son of Spam]

Again, there isn't one sane person that could watch that game and not KNOW the officials were biased.  I won't go into their motivations, be they personal or financial or they got marching orders from above, but EVERYONE knows they were biased.  That isn't even open for debate. They threw flags with glee against Arkansas, for every thing they could see and some they simply made up, while turning a blind eye to the same infractions against State.  It was blatant, it was obvious and I hope they fucking die horrible deaths for it.

There, I said it.

As someone said earlier. Saban NEVER got flagged on the sideline for chewing a ref out. Petrino is the only coach I can remember for that ever happening to. After that flag, it was flag city. Nearly every play.

[Ray Zorback]

Again, it isn't ALL about what they did call.  It is also about what they didn't call. 

Exactly, 2-3 bad calls against us, 2-3 non-calls against them...ballgame.

[Lurk]

Has Sankey been in the Buzz yet? DJ said he was damn sure going to ask him about it.

[Cornhogio]

Our beloved SEC makes the problem worse with a complete lack of transparency.  They could do just like the ACC and show all replay deliberations in every game.  Why don't they? (Rhetorical - we all know the answer).  Why can't they publicly establish a grading scale for what is acceptable for their officials, and then publish the grades each week and suspend and/or terminate crews who consistently fail to meet the standard?  I get that there would be internet crazies doxxing them, threatening them, etc. and that's obviously wrong.  Pay them more so that it's worth the minimal risk. 

I'd be a fan of the Jack Welch at GE rule.  Bottom ten percent by position on the field every year get let go. That would be a little less than one per position per year (fuck it, round up).  Nothing at all wrong with getting fresh blood infused annually.   

[DirkPiggler]

I'd be a fan of the Jack Welch at GE rule.  Bottom ten percent by position on the field every year get let go. That would be a little less than one per position per year (fuck it, round up).  Nothing at all wrong with getting fresh blood infused annually.   

Agreed.  And tell the public about it.  Be transparent. 

[HOGSRUNWILD]

Agreed.  And tell the public about it.  Be transparent. 

How about publicly executed on PPV with 50% of the PPV funds going to the schools they fucked over the most?

[rzrbkfan69]

As someone said earlier. Saban NEVER got flagged on the sideline for chewing a ref out. Petrino is the only coach I can remember for that ever happening to. After that flag, it was flag city. Nearly every play.

I remember Bielema getting an unsportsmanlike flag against him when he was here. It was right after they announced they would start flagging coaches for that.

[BASS]

I remember Bielema getting an unsportsmanlike flag against him when he was here. It was right after they announced they would start flagging coaches for that.

His farts are highly offensive

[Spiderham]

I remember Bielema getting an unsportsmanlike flag against him when he was here. It was right after they announced they would start flagging coaches for that.

Probably was a hot game. 
The BO under that tarp he wore was particularly vile. A mixture of funk sweat, beer and old Tito's. 

[Son of Spam]

Probably was a hot game.
The BO under that tarp he wore was particularly vile. A mixture of funk sweat, beer and old Tito's.

Swampass.