Tennessee's Lane Kiffin and Mississippi State's Dan Mullen were reprimanded Monday by the Southeastern Conference for criticizing officials, raising the number of coaches to be scolded by the league for knocking game officiating to three in the last week. ... Vanderbilt Coach Bobby Johnson also weighed in on the officiating after he had some questions about calls made in his game against South Carolina last weekend. Johnson said he would like to speak with SEC coordinator of officials Rogers Redding. "I think I'd have to get in line," Johnson said. ... Arkansas Coach Bobby Petrino was reprimanded for making critical statements about officiating in the Razorbacks' 23-20 loss at Florida. SEC reprimands Lane Kiffin, Dan Mullen for criticism of officials -- latimes.com
I remember Croom a few years back getting reprimanded for calling out the officials. He had a solid point because he remembered playing for Bama and being on the other side of all of those calls. It is true. The top 10 team is going to get the calls against unranked teams. It is like that in every sport it seems.
Sadly I kind of agree with him. Kiffen that is. Yes I know everyone thinks WE benefited from a bad call. Maybe so. But it sure is getting curious how UF has now had 3 games where calls went their way all of them game changing. Our missing Offensive PI, the debacle against the Hogs, and Miss State. Seems really fishy. But he is right, Alabama and UF roll on to what everyone wants.
The officials are NOT above criticism. I understand the reason for the ban on coaches criticizing the officials because it would give license to the crybaby coaches (Richt?) and the bitching and moaning would get too out of control and would lose significance completely. The problem is that the one who should be doing the criticizing...the head of the officials in the SEC office... does none at all. In fact, the only statements to the press are about him standing behind the officials. If it really is important for him not to publicly criticize the officials, then publish their grades, week to week, or publish their rankings and let the statistics speak for themselves. I'm in the restaurant business, and the board of health publishes the results of their inspections of my place on the internet... so why not the results of grading the officials?
is anyone other than me starting to worry we will be playing against two teams in tuscaloosa? one in crimson, one in stripes?
That's a given, which is why CLM won't have the score close enough to be left up to them to have an impact on us winning.:geaux:
