yes, we lost the game, not the officials. i dont think anyone is saying that it cost us the game or is making excuses. however, the officiating wasnt great, which is what IS being discussed. unfortunately, that is the norm for the sec, it seems. it also seems that the conf office doesnt want to address it. slive would rather try to make everyone put on happy face by punishing coaches/ad's who complain.
You would think cleaning up the officiating would be a priority for Slive, but apparently not. A Letter to the Commissioner of the SEC, Mike Slive
Are you kidding me? Your posts are just awful. I read one that said JJ is our best option at QB next year, another where you accused a post for overreacting for one bad game when he mentioned our defense can't defend the spread, and now you think the offense played well; despite having it 1st and goal inside the 5 twice and not being able to score a TD? Wow..
There will always be some bad calls or missed calls in a game. But you can't blame the zebras for this loss. It was all LSU's.
Jefferson should have had a better handle on the ball. However, I think he thought, I'm sliding...play over. That play did not necessarily cost LSU the game. But, it sure hurt. Withall the helmet to helmet talk this year. It's unbelievable that that went uncalled by these idiotic officials.
Agreed, and I am not one to complain much about officiating, but there were several horribly missed calls, with the one Texas Tiger points out being the most blatant. I am typically of the mindset, you just have to move on and overcome, but when our QB engages in a slide and is speared helmet to helmet, how do you miss that? What really costs us the game was not the officiating, but missing out on recovering the fumbled punt in the first half, and not punching the ball in the endzone when we had our chances, esp. after a turnover inside the 10. But the officiating, along with the commentating, was as bad as I saw all year.
What really cost us was the clock operator. At the start of the 2nd quarter the game clock did not start until 10 secs after a run play. I said to all of my friends as soon as this happened that if Arky scored a last second TD i was gonna go insane, and it happened. Go back and look at it.
