A craw is literally the throat of a bird. It's an old saying, meaning it's something you can't swallow, something that is wrong or troubling. @tigerpub It sticks in my craw too. It's more that just points, Emotion plays a big part in competitive sports After that call LSU went in the locker room down and probably spending too much time talking about the call and ND went in the locker room fired up. Wonder where the officiating crew was from?. The SEC officials are the worst. A lot (not all) of it is incompetence( missing calls they should have seen) and a lot( not all) is bias(seeing calls that weren't there like the ludicrous UC call against Vadal Alexander in the Alabama game ). The head of officiating in the SEC is a U. of Alabama alum so you know how close calls are going to go in any Alabama game and it's not just against LSU. If the coaches complain they risk getting fined. Another thing that sticks in my craw. is in any thread that somebody starts the usual suspects jump in and make it about Miles and his incompetent offense. Over and over and over and fucking OVER AGAIN!!! I mean we get it. We probably agree with you. We get it. I know. Don't read it. I don't. When someone opens a thread on a topic that may be interesting I read the original post and then the first time a usual suspect comes on with his usual original information I quit reading it or just skip to the last page, but there they usually are again. Believe me... WE GET IT!!! Thank you and have a nice day. .
I started the thread for the purpose of generating a discussion about the replay snafus and why there seems to be no check on the "possibility" of bias. A replay call like the one in the bowl game should be unacceptable to any official. Yet, it seems like the replay officials are beyond reproach. We, as fans, just bitch for a short time, then go about our business. Of course, that is all we can do. So, I am just trying to see how many people are sick of the incompetence, conspiracy, bias...whatever. I am not talking about the officials on the field real time. I am talking about the officials who look at the objective information, then call it so blatantly incorrectly. If you are that bad at any other job, you lose it. I think it makes the case for just leaving the call on the field. The replay officials, aka morons, seem to have a tremendously hard time getting it right anyway.
Honestly, I thought that call could go either way. he crossed the goal line, but it was a judgement if his knee was down or not. I just think its a bad policy that evidence must be "indisputable" to overrule an on-the-field call. "Indisputable" just doesn't exist. I think the replay official has more time, more camera angles, and less pressure than the field officials and his best judgement should overrule the call on the field which was made by a guy who is running, may have a bad angle, may have missed it, and is being jawed at by coaches and players. The replay official should be a more serious responsibility and manned by a respected veteran official with a complete knowledge of the rules. He should also be responsible for explaining his rationale on controversial calls after the game. Unlike a field official, he can produce the photo evidence and the rulebook to back up his decision.
@tigerpub Personally, I don't see why there would be a bias against LSU, in favor of Notre Dame. It was a PAC 12 officiating crew. Why would they? There's only one team in the PAC that has a winning record against ND so there's certainly no love lost there. It's been mentioned in this thread that the play-by-play and color analyst had this bias as well. Jones, with Canadian roots, has been a basketball guy in his career doing play-by-play. While I'm no fan of Rod Gilmore, he's a PAC guy as well; Stanford. I pray this isn't falling into the #SECBias category...
If it had been called a TD, my guess is it would've stood, also, because the replay official did not have enough indisputable evidence to overturn the officials who are on the field. From the camera angle it looked like the Jose of the football was over the line, but the official on the ground didn't see it that way, and he didn't look to be in the best position to see his if his knees were down or not. Yes, there are egregious calls, not sure that's one of them. Just like there's holding on damn near every play from scrimmage. LSU has been victim to some questionable and downright wrong calls, but but I would submit very few decided the outcome of a game more than how they played.
! Down on your knees then!!! You telling me that incredible unsportsmanlike conduct call against Vadal Alexander at a critical point in the Alabama game wasn't bias or the punt that crossed the goal line but then magically didn't wasn't bias or Dupre's touchdown catch that was initially ruled out of bounds when I could tell watching TV 500 miles away it was good. Maybe that was just incompetence. Thank goodness it was overturned by the replay official. He must be new to the SEC and doesn't know how things work around here.
