The Bama boards complain about Ritter, too. They think he's prejudiced against Bama. It may be that he's just not very good. Or that he is an equal opportunity pisser-offer.
Everybody, everywhere complains about officiating. From the YAL, high school, college levels to the NFL. Always have, always will. Supposedly the calls even out in the end. The end of what is TBD. I'm skeptical.
In the main Ritter and so many other SEC refs are TOTALLY incompetent. That is a worse crime than being owned in many ways. I also think many zebras think that the "traditional powers" are always likely to be better so things should break that way. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. The SEC office protects them rather than enforcing a environment of excellence. If the teams in the conference allowed their athletic teams to perform as poorly none could beat Tulane. I wish I could see hope that it will change but I don't. The only hope is that whoever replaces Slive is as strong as Emmert was at LSU when he forced the athletic dept to bring in Saban....
the alabamer forum was saying the same stuff that the officiating was biased towards LSU so I guess the officiating was ineptly balanced
SEC officiating....is bad. It is a given that teams must deal with, just like Alabama kickers must deal with the fact that the goal post uprights are 18'6" apart.
This week was especially bad. There were some egregious no calls, blown calls, and untimely calls. I thought we got away with a call or two, but the missed face masks, the missed pass interference calls, and the blown touchback all had impact on the game. Even the ticky tack personal foul call at the end of the game and the one against Bama in OT happened to be called in a way that LSU was penalized more severely.
The ticky tack personal foul call probably cost us the game. It stopped the clock after first down which we'd have let keep running without it, then it dictated the rest of our play calls from the 20, instead of the 5, and virtually no time ran off the clock at all. Without it, we probably win the game, if for no other reason than Bama really not having enough time to do anything about a FG, or maybe even a TD.
The gumps are the only team in the history of college football to get 'home cooking' calls in opposing teams' home stadium. That's hilarious. What calls/no calls did we get that impacted the game like the ones they got? It's really easy for them to scream sour grapes when it NEVER happens to them.
Exactly. We have it second and goal from the 21/22. Then in the OT period we get a "make up" on the play to the one. Bama is backed up 15 yards and has it first and ten from the 16. Where the call on us resulted in down and distance that limited what we could do, Bama could still run the entire offense. Both penalties were BS, but the BS penalty against Bama didn't hurt them to the same extent.
