Do we really trust SEC officials to make even more subjective calls?
The last thing college football needs is another opportunity for officials to affect the outcome of the game.
I understand the rationale behind the NCAA’s controversial rules change to take points off the board starting in 2011 if a player is called for taunting on his way to the end zone.
The folks who run college football have been uncomfortable for some years now with all the high-stepping and pointing and diving toward the goal line like Superman that they see as a lack of sportsmanship, and they feel that calling a dead-ball foul that’s assessed on the PAT or ensuing kickoff just hasn’t gotten through to the players. As Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association put it, “this rule is one way to make sure the kids pay attention.”
And this won’t change what happens if a player or team is called for excessive celebration. That’s after the score and will still be a dead-ball foul tacked on to the kickoff.
I understand all that, but I still think this is one of those cases where all the potential pitfalls make the cure worse than the ailment.
We all know that taunting calls vary wildly from conference to conference and even game to game within a conference. Why saddle the officials with yet another subjective call that forces them to inject themselves further into the flow of a game, possibly altering the outcome?
As A.J. Green found out last season against LSU, some officials already have a hair trigger when it comes to those calls. And, as the video showed afterward, they can be flat-out wrong.
That’s my main worry: the execution of this kind of call. Dave Parry, the NCAA’s coordinator of college football officiating, says that “if it’s close to diving into the end zone, most likely it would be ruled that the act ended while in the end zone. We’ll be lenient.” But Dave Parry won’t be the one out there throwing the flags, and in the SEC in particular we know how inconsistently rules are interpreted when they’re subjective.
Plus, as it is, those flags generally only come out for offensive players. If taunting is so bad for the game, why not call it on defenders pounding their chest as they stand over a player they’ve tackled? Or on the defender who holds a running back down on the ground after the play is over? Those calls do happen, but oh so rarely.
And then there’s the question of why the NCAA is trying to keep players from letting their emotions get the better of them when part of the appeal of college football is all the emotion it stirs, among the players as well as the fans. Why try to dampen that?
I know, I know. The players should act like they’ve been there before. And celebrating too early can sometimes result in something really embarrassing like dropping the ball before you’ve crossed the goal line. But those are discussions that should be between players and their coaches. Why get the officials involved?
Rules that are intended to protect players from injury make sense, like the new ban on wedge blocking on kickoffs. But trying to give college football the demeanor of a round of golf at Augusta National is just wrongheaded.
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Cmill
April 16th, 2010
10:30 am
First? Go Dawgs!
BobDog
April 16th, 2010
10:34 am
Heck no! Georgia may as well drop football.
The whole thing is getting silly.
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:36 am
Mark Richt is one of only six coaches to win two SEC football championships in their first five years coaching. He is also one of only five head coaches in SEC history to record four straight 10-win seasons.
Coach Richt’s Red and Black outfits have never posted a losing record in conference play and six of his last eight squads have finished 6-2 or better in regular-season SEC contests.
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yeah he is pretty damn good.
under Richt
He is 24-7 against the SEC West.
He is 28-16 against the SEC East.
He is 38-4 against nonconference opponents.
He is 8-1 against Georgia Tech.
He won four of his first five games against Tennessee, but has lost three of the last four against the Vols since then.
He was born the same year as Chuck D of Public Enemy.
Ranks third in winning percentage among active college coaches that have coached for at least five years, now that Pete Carroll left USC for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
He is 90-27, trailing only Urban Meyer (96-18) and Bob Stoops (117-29).\\yeah he is pretty damn good
Mark Richt’s overall success in Southeastern Conference action—including two SEC titles, three conference championship game appearances, and four finishes of no worse than tied for first place in the East, with no losing records in the process—is without parallel in Georgia football history.
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Yeah he is prety damn good
Ere anyone attempts to argue that Coach Richt’s superb out-of-conference ledger is the product of schedules stacked with the likes of
Northwestern State,
Western Kentucky,
Tennessee Tech, and
Hawaii in the 2008 Sugar Bowl,
I should hasten to point out that he is 21-4 against
Arizona State,
Boise State,
Boston College,
Clemson,
Colorado,
Florida State,
Georgia Tech,
Michigan State,
Oklahoma State,
Purdue,
Texas A&M,
Virginia Tech,
West Virginia, and
Wisconsin.
Even if we factor out Division I-AA teams, Sun Belt squads, and similar schedule fodder, Coach Richt is .840 against teams from automatic BCS-qualifying conferences other than the SEC. (Yes, I’m going ahead and counting the Broncos in that category because the Mountain West will get a guaranteed bid as soon as Boise State is invited to join.)
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:37 am
There are those in Bulldog Nation who would like to see Mark Richt run out of town on a rail. Such people should be turned over to the custody of Mike Leach, in the hope that he will treat their obvious head trauma the way he treated Adam James’s
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:38 am
Did I mention UGA is the only SEC school with 6 top ten finishes in last 9 years (under Richt)?
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:39 am
Nick Saban went 6-5, 6-6, 6-6, 7-5 at Mich St.
He went 8-5 at LSU 2x
He went 7-6 at Alabama.
Saban has gone 5-3 or worse in conference 8 times.
Richt has only gone 5-3 or worse in conference 3 times in his first 9 years.
Compare that to Saban’s record and consistency in his 1st 9 years.
Richt has NEVER had a 7-6 or 6-6 season, Saban’s done it 5 times, including once at Alabama.
patrick
April 16th, 2010
10:44 am
True dat yeah whatever
Dawg Tired
April 16th, 2010
10:47 am
The new rule will be a disaster. There is no way the officials currently officiating in the SEC can apply this rule fairly across the board. Their competency level falls far too short of being able to handle this. Plus, I don’t trust their integrity enough to turn this kind of game changing responsibility over to them. Based upon past screw-ups, Alabama and Florida may never lose another game if the referees can totally eliminate the score by calling taunting. I’m sure if a UGA p;ayer turns back to see if someone is gaining on him it will be demed taunting. Result: no score!
Say it ain’t so!
dan
April 16th, 2010
10:47 am
yeah whatever,
I’d still take Saban over Richt though. Richt came into a program at finished 8-4 and he had NFL caliber talent to work with. Richt went 13-1 off of Jim Donnan’s recruits. Richt might have been a better head coach than Donnan, but Donnan was a MUCH better recruiter than Richt.
Saban inherited programs that were in bad shape at Michigan State, LSU, and Alabama. When Saban comes into a program, the first year he rebuilds, by year 2 he has his guys in place, and by year 3-4 they’re competing for national championships. Hey listen, I will take a 7-6 season if I know we will be 13-1 or 14-0 2 years down the road.
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:55 am
Dan, 2007 Richt finished 2nd in the nation WITHOUT Donnans recruits. UGA has had 5 or 6 top ten recruiting classes and a couple of top 5 under Richt.
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
10:57 am
He is 24-7 against the SEC West.
He is 28-16 against the SEC East.
He is 38-4 against nonconference opponents.
He is 8-1 against Georgia Tech.
You cant do much better than that.
Fla is his Achilles heal but you have to BE an Achilles to have an Achilles heal.
Pago Flyer
April 16th, 2010
11:01 am
UGA always has a Top Ten recruiting class…but…nothing happens.!
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
11:04 am
Nothing happens? 90 wins….2 SEC titles…..6 top ten finishes in 9 years……11 bowl wins in last 13 years (only ALA and LSU has EVER matched that).
chazzo
April 16th, 2010
11:05 am
The more discretion granted an official, the more potential for graft and corruption. It is simple. We keep giving these guys more and more ways to throw games. The mechanism to take advantage of that has long been in place. If we can’t see that; we are simply deluded. The rules of the game should be applied to achieve the most objective and fair outcomes… nothing more, nothing less. No need to monkey with the clocks and no need to give refs more sujectivity.
2000dawg
April 16th, 2010
11:13 am
Why is Grant Teaff so worried about making kids “pay attention” to this, whereas he hasn’t stiffened penalties for roughing the passer, or facemask, or even pass interference and holding? Those penalties still occur all the time, so do we need to get the kids to pay attention there too? Why single out this penalty but not the others?
WonderDawg
April 16th, 2010
11:27 am
Did you omit Richt’s record vs UF by accident?
Fatricks Mentor
April 16th, 2010
11:28 am
Patrick yeah whatever, did you forget to mention his record the last 5 years in the SEC East and his record against lowly Kentucky and Vandy?
Fatricks Mentor
April 16th, 2010
11:29 am
Wonderdawg, nothing Fatrick does is by accident including his facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name
MATHDAWG
April 16th, 2010
11:31 am
True taunting should be reason to throw the player out of the game. No points should be taken away. Taunting should be called on excessive defensive demonstrations after a sack or tackle. Removing the player from the remainder of the game would get their attention and not punish the other 10 players on the team as much.
Fatricks Mentor
April 16th, 2010
11:33 am
Oh, I forgot to mention these nuggets:
Under CMR:
UGA has lost to Vandy and Kentucky at home in last 5 years.
UGA is 14-11 against SEC east opponents the last 5 years.
UGA is 2-7 against Florida
UGA is 3-8 against Florida and Tenn. the last five years.
UGA is 2-3 against Tenn. the last five years.
UGA has never beaten won all its SEC east games in a season
UGA has never beaten Tenn and Fla in the same season since the conference was split
SEC East Spokesman
April 16th, 2010
11:35 am
Fatricks Mentor, quit talking bad about CMR; we don’t want him to ever leave.
WonderDawg
April 16th, 2010
11:37 am
I agree, Bill. Why only players on offense? A linebacker can sack a QB for a 12 yard loss on 1st down, dance and beat his chest, and only lose 3 yards and one down if he gets flagged at all.
With the SEC refs, who gets flagged depends more on who your head coach is, not how bad your taunting is anyway . . .
SEC East Spokesman
April 16th, 2010
11:41 am
WonderDawg, are you saying that Richt may still be paying for his Dancing with the Stars in the endzone in 07?
Mauidawg
April 16th, 2010
11:52 am
They enact this new rule to eliminate individual attention in a team sport…..and the penalty affects the entire team. That’s the stupidest thing ever.
WonderDawg
April 16th, 2010
11:58 am
yeah whatever!,
‘07 was a great year for UGA, but we still lost 2 games because of poor coaching, including a butt-kicking by a vastly inferior UT team.
I like Richt, but you don’t ever wonder what those other coaches you mentioned could have done with the talent UGA had in ‘02-’05 and ‘07-’08? All of those years, UGA was absolutely loaded with talent, and yet lost one or two games to teams we had no business losing to.
Richt is great as a figurehead type head coach for our program. He’s second to none for morals, compassion and just being a good man. Now he’s taken one step that was needed with Grantham, but needs to go back to the NFL for an OC. Then we can compete for titles again.
barrow dog
April 16th, 2010
12:04 pm
will such a call be subject to review?
George G.
April 16th, 2010
12:06 pm
Agree Bill. Here’s another take that’s comparable to yours…
http://cfn.scout.com/2/962687.html
WonderDawg
April 16th, 2010
12:06 pm
All I know, SEC East Spokesman, is that the Dawgs get 12-14 flags per game and Bama gets 0-1 per game? It just doesn’t make sense.
If the “dance” is the cause for the flags, I hope we’ve about served our time for the “crime.”
SaintsLSU
April 16th, 2010
12:19 pm
It sure did seem like SEC officials favored Bama/Florida lsat year. They just got all the breaks. I do not doubt for a minute that Bama and Florida were the best two teams in the conference (country) last year, but they were beatable on a few Saturdays last fall. I noticed that Kentucky got some great called games toward the end of Basketball season, trying to preserve their possible #1 seed. The game at Miss State was one of the worst officiated basketball games since the ‘02 Lakers/Kings Wester Confernce finals, game 6 maybe? Anyway, here’s to another great upcomming football season in only 4 1/2 months. Geaux Tigers!
LHardingDawg
April 16th, 2010
12:20 pm
Maybe the NCAA should use the soccer yellow card “red card” rule. If a player breaks a minor rule, he would get a yellow card, if he breaks another rule, he would get another yellow card that would convert to a red card and he would be kicked out of the game. Plus, he would not be eligible for the next game. If he breaks a major rule, he could get a straight red card, which would put him out of the game.
Dawg 39
April 16th, 2010
12:24 pm
CMR is not going to be fired or asked to resign. The next 4 years will tell the tale as to whether he will choose to resign & pursue other options. The dawgs are solid for the next 4 years.
I agree the Refs are looking harder at the Dawgs than at other teams. Hopefully this will change this year.
Patrick Yackis
April 16th, 2010
12:55 pm
I like this rule. Can we also penalize defenders who stomp, strut, beat their chests and shake their heads after every tackle? That’s worse than what the guys on offense do.
Change is good...
April 16th, 2010
1:03 pm
Most of the 12 to 14 flags per game came about because the team was not disciplined…change is not on the way, it is here, at least for the defense, as I suspect penalties will not be tolerated by CTG…now that being said, let’s hope the offensive side of the ball follows suit now that CMR is more involved with the offense…but doesn’t it make one wonder why Coach Bobo can’t gain control of this group, with their jumping offsides and such…I’ve been told that he’s an excellent QB coach, however is he getting paid for on the job training to grow and learn the OC position…the offensive side of the ball needs discipline…perhaps this is above Coach Bobo’s abilities, not everyone can lead a group of diverse personalities whether in sports, or in the private sector…this year should tell the tale…
as far as the officials, where are the AD’s voice in all of this…what goes around, comes around…these AD’s should be setting the rules along with the officials…tell you what if they start taking points off the board and messing w/ some friendly wagering, there may be a horse head found in some-one’s bed…if an official screws up then he is set down for a game, or least have a rating system where they are held accountable…you’re talking big money at the end of the year concerning which bowl game that you get to attend…these SEC officials remind me of the baseball umps who want to get some face time on TV and be bigger than the game, they all need to be taken down a peg or two and realize that the best ref’s, ump’s, officials are the ones that you never here of…
#1 BAMA FAN
April 16th, 2010
1:25 pm
Just maybe BAMA and the GATORS are better coached and disciplined…just a thought. Hey YEAH Whatever…what’s the DAWGS record when they dress like ninja’s and act like fools???RTR
Change is good...
April 16th, 2010
1:27 pm
-5 off for mistake spelling… officials are the ones that you never HEAR of…
Change is good...
April 16th, 2010
1:30 pm
dang nb it…-10 for poor sentence structure…
-5 off for SPELLING MISTAKE… officials are the ones that you never HEAR of…
dan
April 16th, 2010
1:35 pm
yeah whatever,
The endzone dance against Florida was the catalyst that set the tone for the second half surge in 2007. And then the Black Out jersey’s sent that season into the stratosphere! That team was talented( even though I would argue that it wasn’t as talented as some previous teams at UGA)but they won because of the swagger! The swagger is what Richt’s teams lack on a consistent basis. Miami had that in the 80’s( even though they took it too far), Florida and FSU had it in the 90’s. Those teams walked into every game believing they would win regardless of the opponent. UGA had that same swagger at the end of 2007 and would have won the National Title if given the opportunity.
But see the problem is Richt doesn’t like that swagger. He tried it once and now he doesn’t want to win that way again. He wants to win the good guy way. And he tries to manufacture that enthusiasm with blackout games and helments, but it doesn’t work because the team doesn’t have that “hit you in the mouth” swagger. And the head coach either needs to instill that in their players, or have the sense to step out of the way and let it develop among the players. All the old fogie traditionalist will get on here and talk about what a class act Mark Richt is, but that’s the wrong measuring stick to use when gauging Mark Richt as a coach. You have to gauge what he has done ON THE FIELD. Right now, Mark Richt is a good head coach that will never be in the same discussion as a Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, or even Steve Spurrier until he wins a National Title. Right or Wrong, that is how he will be measured.
Vandy Dawg
April 16th, 2010
1:38 pm
Sometimes I wonder at what point these conferences will make retribution for those calls that were blatantly wrong? Although, given that we like emotion in the game, what better way to stir emotion than the refs making terrible calls every so often? I’m torn….
By the way, guys like “yeah whatever”, why, on every Bulldog blog, do you feel a need to ramble off one-sided stats about UGA/CMR that have NOTHING to do with the subjects of many of the blogs on which you post? Same with all you trolls….. Can’t a guy just read comments that are actually ABOUT the subject at hand?
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
1:59 pm
All this crap started a few years ago when Knowshon started all the dancing on the sidelines crap. I hated it then and i hate it now. Its that kinda of stuff that gets the refs really looking at us. Richt should have stopped it then and we wouldnt be in this shape. As we all have said…..we didnt/dont have any discipline. This is what happpens when you let the kids/players run the show. The coaches need to run the team and not let the team run the coaches. As far as Booboo goes…..he’s got to go. i know he has a yard full of children but hey….maybe he can get a real job with normal wages. Or maybe he can go be a co-host with Bullshart Belue on 680. Why in the hell did the powers that be let ‘Soul ja Boy’ be played over the loud speaker? Also…..does anyone remember the Bama game cpl years ago? They were drilling us badly and in the 3rd quarter guess what comes over the loud speaker??? ‘Here comes the boom’ yeah, Bama boomed it up our asses and all of our boys were dancing on the sidelines. Complete and total embarrassemt!!! But thats what you get when your team has all the kind of characters that we have. You all have a nice weekend.
Katie
April 16th, 2010
2:00 pm
Go Dawgs! God bless all the officials!
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:03 pm
Also, you get those pitiful uniforms that we sported in the Ga/Fl game last year. Whoever made that poor decision should;ve been let go on the spot as soon as we hit the field in those things. Lets lineup in our traditional red jerseys/silver britches and bust some ass. Once again, thats what happens when you let the kids pick the uniforms. Its kinda like small children…..the parents have final say on what he/she wears to school. Same thing with the uni’s.
SOGADOG
April 16th, 2010
2:05 pm
This is a terrible rule. Remember when Knowshon dove in the endzone against Az State in Az a couple of years ago? He dove to get over a defender and reach the endzone. If he had stayed on his feet, he probably would have been tackled short of the endzone. That wasnt excessive celebration, it was an athletic move to reach the endzone. Now a player has to worry about diving over defenders to reach the endzone being considered “excessive celebration”. There is too much danger this rule will be applied inconsistenty and subjectively, and sooner or later, a team with BCS potential will lose a game and miss out on a championship based on a bad excessive celebration call.
dawgfan
April 16th, 2010
2:07 pm
It is beyond dispute that SEC officials are more flag happy with some teams than others. We can argue all day long about why it happens, but the fact is it happens. You don’t call that penalty on AJ Green unless you WANT to call that penalty on AJ Green. That’s the bottom line. That ref was just looking for something. How else can you explain it? How else can you explain Green getting flagged for for absolutely nothing while Dustin Doe showboats an interception in to the endzone without getting flagged? How can you explain that other than some kind of human bias or prejudice? The only other explanation is that the refs aren’t watching the action closely enough, which is just as bad.
I bet the SEC refs let out a collective groan when they saw this new rule coming down the pipeline. They know the the headaches and scrutiny that are in store for them. Cry me a river. You’ve earned every bit of it boys. I’d just leave the flags stuffed in those pockets if I were you…
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:07 pm
I”m glad knowshon is gone. He’s kinda like Obama. Its going to take us a couple of years to recover from the lack of discipline he brought to us. Its going to take us years to recover from the Trillions in debt he is tacking on to our economy. Just sayin
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
2:13 pm
@Bill King is a………
please keep your american political crap off this blog. It’s one thing to talk about the politics of football, but I DO NOT want to read your drivel about american politics. I’d be on a different blog right now if that were the case.
FLMoonpie
April 16th, 2010
2:20 pm
Richt is a lot like B Cox…has a big following, always says the right things…but like Cox, Richt has had a load of talent and couldn’t take it to the top. Unlike Saban and Meyer, Richt, when given the oportunity to win the big game, usually finds a way to loose.
dawgfan
April 16th, 2010
2:20 pm
They play “Here comes the boom” at every game you dumbazz, regardless of the score. What are you like 90 years old? I bet you’re just the life of the party aren’t you? Good grief. Lighten up.
Knowshon was one of the most disciplined players to EVER where a Georgia uniform. He danced because he was having a good time and wasn’t miserable like you clearly are. It seemed to work well for him given his 3,000 flippin yards rushing in only two flippin seasons. If you’re that good at something you get a little leeway. That’s the way the world works. Why don’t you just cry about it? Oh wait, you already are.
Dismissed.
richham
April 16th, 2010
2:21 pm
This rule has total disaster written all over it. The thing I don’t understand is why anyone cares if a guy dives across the goal line. Football is exciting and fun to watch, why do we have to dumb it down for the fear of hurting someones feelings?
If the other team scores a touchdown against your team, your usually upset anyways. I rarely even notice if there is show boating after that and then I could care less. What’s the point of the games if we all don’t get excited and have fun watching the game.
So what
April 16th, 2010
2:25 pm
yeah whatever,
What about the stat where Richt is 10-10 against the sec the last 5 years? Lets face it. We had our heyday in the early 2000s when Bama was down and UF had the Zooker. Now that those programs are back up we’re middle of the pack the last 4 years. Sorry but its just a fact and while the overall stats look good based upon CMR’s first 5 years the last 4 have been lackluster. The trend is a downward descent and that stats bear it out. And I’ll say something that’s the ugly truth that most of us won’t admit but I will. I would take Saban in a heartbeat over Richt. The man runs a disciplined program and he wins. He flat out wins and he’s done something Richt can’t do. He beat Florida and beat them decisively and it looks like he will continue to do so. His teams are physical, dominating, and they are disciplined. Ours are undisciplined on and off the field and can’t play physical smash mouth football. Saban took over a bunch of downtrodden program. When he got to Bama the bammers were in a complete mess and downtrodden. He took them from a program decimated by probation to an unbeaten regular season in year 2 with average talent at best and a national title in year 3. And the guy is a recruiting juggernaut. He now has that team loaded with bada$$es and with talent that can line up and whup the gators man to man. While we are intimidated by the gators Saban has them intimidated with his physical teams. He didn’t just beat them in the seccg. He opened a can of whupa$$ and laid an old fashioned beatdown to them gators. Say what you will but Richt will never dominate the gators. You know it. I know it. We all know it. And that is what ticks me off more than anything.
RxDawg
April 16th, 2010
2:29 pm
Terrible idea. I know they are doing this under the premise of trying to get less tuanting and unsportsmanlike type of behavior. But this is aweful and put’s too much integrity of the game at risk for something that’s really not that much of a problem as it is now. Nobody plays like Miami of the 80s. The penalties are stiff enough as it is.
Yesterday on ESPN they were showing a play by Golden Tate from Notre Name. He ran into the inzone while holding the ball extended out and looked back. The commentators said that would be considered taunting, and the TD would of been taken off the board. If you would of seen the “penalty” commited you’d know this rule is not worth implimenting.
Dawg'em out!
April 16th, 2010
2:30 pm
no, AJ green had a b/s call on him that IMO, cost georgia the game by sucking the momentum outta the team.
So what
April 16th, 2010
2:33 pm
Bill King is a ……,
You bring up the Bama blackout game a couple of years ago and all Knowshon’s dancing. I remember that. It seems before the game Knowshon and our players were all hyped up, dancing and getting all jacked up and partying all over the sidelines. You would never have thought they had a game to play. You looked over at the Bammers and they were focused, listening to their coaches, they were ready for a dang football game while Knowshown and our guys were on the soul train dancing express. Just another example of substance over flash. Knowshon danced a lot before the Florida game too. Until that thug Spikes planted him firmly on his butt. Funny thing but he wasn’t dancing after that and we all know what happened then. A change of culture is in order. More hard nosed football and less dancing.
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:37 pm
Dawgfan…..i’m well aware of what music is played at the games. I’m at everyone of them. I’m not 90…..i’m 38 and i’m old enough to remember #34 and the way he played the game. He didnt do all the dancing and he won the damn Heisman Trophy. So take that static you are talking and shove it. In the Bama game…..we were not worth a damn but at least we won the dance contest. Maybe someone will give out a National Championship for dancing on the sidelines and we for sure will win it. We lost our discipline when we lost Neil Calloway. And as much as i thought he was a poor O-line coach….he was our disciplinarian and a damn good one. Hopefully Grantham will play that role. And having Knowshon and Stafford has turned out to set our program back several years. Such star players like they were and what did we get for it?? We beat UF and thats about it. Had a decent run in 08. Whatelse?? No SECC or NC.
I woulda rather had a kid like Sam Bradford. That kid could have left a year early but he didnt. And why?? Because he always wanted to play for Oklahoma and thats what he was going to do. He’s still getting drafted next week. Those are the kinda players we need to be going after……ones who have always wanted to be Bulldawgs. And speaking of Knowshon……did you notice how he was always taking himself outta the games that year? Explain that to me.
Dismissed
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:39 pm
So What…….thank you for that.
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
2:41 pm
I sat through the entirety of that Alabama black-out game. We didn’t loose that game because of Moreno, we lost because our defense was HORRIBLE in the first half. The problem had nothing to do with dancing and having fun, it had everything to do with CWM and his lack of defensive coaching.
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:43 pm
At UGA ALUMNUS…..you brought up having the players ‘dressing up like old ladies and drinking tea.’ I’m going to the TeaParty next time it comes to ATL.. Care to join me?
Old Dawg
April 16th, 2010
2:44 pm
On the subject of the new NCAA rules, I somewhat agree with Bill that they can be incorrectly called, as evidenced during the LSU game last year. At the same, I blame the players and coaches for not holding themselves to higher standards. I understand that kids are different than they were in the past, but if you hold them to a higher standard, dole out punishment like running etc for improper behavior, then they’re less likely to behave poorly.
I played HS football in the age before dinosaurs. However, from day one of spring practice throughout fall camp and each season the coaches reviewed what behavior was and wasn’t accepted. The punishment? The entire team ran, did up-downs, whatever. At the end of the season we were the least penalized team and had the fewest turnovers of any team in our region … and we won. Our head coach learned this disciplinary program when he played college football.
So it’s the players and coaches who haven’t maintained a high standard of behavior and now, as a result, all teams are being punished. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:44 pm
And i suppose the Offense had nothing to do with that since we had a goose egg at the half in the Bama game? What planet are you living on UGAA?
ga gator
April 16th, 2010
2:46 pm
UGAAlumnus, I was at the game and the D did suck, but so did the offense in the first half. You cant blame it all on Willie.
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:46 pm
We couldnt move the ball and kept putting our poor coached Defense on the field.
Bill King is a ...........
April 16th, 2010
2:47 pm
i.e Moreno and Stafford I really dont see how all these suck up fans continue to treat those two like Gods.
gdad
April 16th, 2010
2:51 pm
Why do they single out football for taunting and let the other sports, i.e. basketball, baseball, softball et. al. pump fist after dunks, home runs pull their shirt up, toss the ball up etc. The NCAA is not even handed in this rule.They take away the joy a young athlete may have in singular accomplishment
Bo
April 16th, 2010
2:59 pm
I can also understand the NCAA’s motivation. Showboating is the #1 thing that I don’t like about NFL football (I still like Pro football, though). I wish every pro could be like Barry Sanders.
I would be all for the rule if it were reviewable. As it stands now, this is horrible. Mike Slive made sure that a coach in the SEC won’t be able to critisize a bad call and our teams will be at the mercy of a ref who wants to prove a point…this is a bad deal.
38 Yardline Dawg
April 16th, 2010
3:04 pm
This new rule will cause more controversy than ever. But what else should we expect from a football league that embraces a subjective means of naming it’s national champion instead of a FREAKING PLAYOFF SYSTEM?!?!?
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
3:17 pm
@Bill King is a ….
Sure, I’ll join you in ATL. I love comedy!
To answer your question: I live on planet Earth. To speak to the game in question, Bama notoriously has a great defense under Saban. Not scoring in the first half of a football game isn’t that big a deal. Unless you don’t have a Defense of your own. We did score something like 31 points in the second half, after Bama’s defense trotted back to Tuscaloosa.
I grew up going to all of Auburn’s home games, and have been to many UGA games since attending school here. I’ve seen plenty of football games with low scores. I’ve also seen plenty of big UGA games when we loose 30 or 40 something to some low score. Usually those games are against FL or Tenn. Remember those games? Who was the defensive head coach? CWM.
Defense wins ball games and championships.
So, Bama held us to no points in the first half of that game. How many points did Bama have in the first? 41, or something like that? Was that Moreno’s or Stafford’s fault?
If our defense had kept us in the game, our offense clearly had it in them to come back from a deficit.
But now that I look at it that way, it was clearly Moreno’s and Stafford’s fault.
You’re right. I concede. You’ve totally won this argument.
If Moreno had not been dancing before the Bama game, our defense wouldn’t have allowed 41 points in the first half.
FLMoonpie
April 16th, 2010
3:18 pm
The way to avoid those yellow flags is to stop this “Rapp-Crapp and Ghetto-Dancing” and istill some “Damn Disipline”….
Ted Striker
April 16th, 2010
3:24 pm
When a player makes a poor on-field decision and receives a penalty, the immediate repercussions affect the player and his team. When an official makes a poor on-field decision, the repercussions first and foremost affect…..a player and his team.
Old Dawg
April 16th, 2010
3:42 pm
UGAAlumnus: you’re a fine example of a UGA graduate. It’s lose, not loose. Loose, as in Moreno broke loose on a long run. Lose is when you lose a game, regardless of whether it’s 41 points or 4.
Did you take any English classes in high school or in college?
KJ
April 16th, 2010
3:50 pm
“The folks who run college football have been uncomfortable for some years now”
Yeah, I’m guessing these are the same decrepit old coots that were “uncomfortable” with the darkies drinking out of their water fountains.
This just proves that the NCAA needs to clean house, like, yesterday. Absolutely no excuse for this BS. I guess we can look forward to Penn Wagers flagging AJ Green unless he walks gingerly into the end zone with his head down.
KG
April 16th, 2010
3:53 pm
The call on AJ Green was legit, don’t see the big deal. H ewas taunintng and celbration, you can see his shoulder slightly move up in a taunting like fashion on the slo mo.
FLAMoonPies
April 16th, 2010
3:55 pm
Richt runs themost disciplines program in the SEC. He gets robbed by the refs who are out to get him. Gets a ton of bad calls. He’s innocent. Everybody hates a winner.
If Georgia’s uniforms had stripes like some of the other teams, the refs would like them better, and call less penalties.
ga gator is a ......
April 16th, 2010
3:57 pm
Thoe posts on this thread are some of the lamest I’ve seen,e specially ga gator, who has the worst, as usual, but does his writing make no sense to any of us. Is he Bulldawg?
dawgfan is a ......
April 16th, 2010
3:59 pm
dawgfan in not a dawg fan
change is good is a ......
April 16th, 2010
4:01 pm
change is good knows nothing abut football.
change is not good. having bear bryant as head coach at alabama year after year was good, not change.
no, the refs don’t tthrow flags because richt has no discipline.
they throw flags because it’s revenge for the celebration call richt made against florida years ago. since that time, penalties went up by 50% for georgia.
richt won the battle, and lost the war.
so you are wrong, as usual, your posts are a complete waste of time.
KJ
April 16th, 2010
4:05 pm
“you can see his shoulder slightly move up”
OH NOES HIS SHOULDER SLIGHTLY MOVED LETS GIVE THE WHOLE TEAM THE DEATH PENALTIEZ LOLOL
Idiot.
KG
April 16th, 2010
4:06 pm
Yeah, it was an OBVIOUS shoulder taunt, watch the slo mo idiotic idiot.
KG
April 16th, 2010
4:07 pm
KJ-
You are BY FAR, the biggest idiot I’ve ever seen on this blog.
KJ
April 16th, 2010
4:16 pm
Yeah, KG, all of the fans, announcers, analysts, sportswriters, and coaches are wrong about that incident, and YOU are right.
Good luck in the real world, kid.
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
4:17 pm
@Old Dawg
Thanks for the spell check. I actually have two undergraduate degrees from two different Universities, and will start Graduate school in the fall semester (not at UGA).
Hope my trigger happy “o” doesn’t ruin your night. I make simple, absent-minded typos (sometimes consistently) so I need to keep you close by. I’ll email you all future writings. I’m not sure how I’ve made it this far without your help!
UGAAlumnus is a .......
April 16th, 2010
4:20 pm
You don’t have any collegiate degrees. Obviously, you are about as much of an idiot as KJ, are you the same person, you sure seem like it, using two dfferent names. actually, almost every post here seems like one guy, using a bunch of fake names.
KJ
April 16th, 2010
4:22 pm
“almost every post here seems like one guy, using a bunch of fake names.”
oh, the irony….
Old Dawg
April 16th, 2010
4:43 pm
UGAAlumnus: Dude, you just need to go back to English class. Even when you’re defending yourself, you make mistakes. For example, in your last post, you used Universities and Graduate. No need to capitalize those words. You’re extremely lucky I haven’t graded your previous term papers. I know a lot of professors are slack on grammar and punctuation, but some still take it seriously.
It’s always better to write correctly than get points taken off for poor writing skills … something very lacking in our country. Enjoy grad school. Wish I could go back and enjoy the research.
GaDawg
April 16th, 2010
4:58 pm
Do we really trust SEC officials to make even more subjective calls?
NO!
BDAWG
April 16th, 2010
4:58 pm
THIS IS THE KIND OF CALL THAT YOU DON’T TRUST ANY OFFICIALS TO MAKE. IT’S A DUMB RULE AND A LOT OF GAMES WILL BE RUINED BY IT. THIS IS A SPORT AND IT SEEMS LIKE ALL THE FUN IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF CELEBRATING. THERE IS EXCESSIVE CELEBRATING, BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT THE OFFICIALS DON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXCESSIVE AND WHAT’S NOT EXCESSIVE.
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
5:04 pm
@OldDawg
Well, admittedly I don’t hold a degree in English grammar. Like I said, I should keep you close by just in case I need an annoying reminder that there are imperfections in my writing skills. That said, since you’re a grammarian could you please dissect this sentence of yours for me? Here’s your chance to teach:
“I understand that kids are different than they were in the past, but if you hold them to a higher standard, dole out punishment like running etc for improper behavior, then they’re less likely to behave poorly.”
p.s. who needs to obsess over grammar when we have editors and grammar Nazis roving the blogosphere?
p.p.s. and could you please work on all those skills in which you perform worse than me? I think you should be master of more than just grammar.
FLMoonpie
April 16th, 2010
5:16 pm
Someone said that Richt runs the most disiplined program in the SEC….you gotta be kidding me. Every year UGA practically leads college football with number of players who have run-ins with the law. All this boogie-boy dancing and carrying-on on the sidelines is certainly not an image of disipline. Refs see this crap going on, and yes Ga may be singled out with penalties(questionable at best), but that may be the reason why.
Einsteindawg
April 16th, 2010
5:27 pm
Please, let me enlighten you. The NCAA & SEC are all about the MONEY. Money= TV ratings and contracts. Who do you think will get the benefit of the call…the higher ranked team? And, which games garner the most money? In my opinion, the SEC/NCAA are the Goldman Sachs of the sports entertainment business. Go back to 10 regular season games and 7 bowls.
One, two, free, fo, fi, dem der Gator don't take no jive!
April 16th, 2010
5:29 pm
Why can’t we all just get along?
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
5:39 pm
It’s a bad rule change…
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
5:43 pm
“so what”….middle of pack last 4 years?????/ So number 2 in the nation in 2007 was middle of pack? 2007 is within last 4 years…right? Kinda need to learn football then come on back and you can talk with the adults
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
5:47 pm
oh and some one asked how is UGAs record in black? Auburn, Hawaii are wins…ALA is a loss.
hmmmm 2-1…or .667 percent. Next question.
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
5:49 pm
SO WHAT…….Richt has not beat Fla? He beat them in 2007 the year they were defending Champs and did so convincingly. Again….go learn some football then you can come back to the big people table. Until then just stay over at the children table
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
5:53 pm
@Old Dawg
I was referring to specific “Universities”, and a specific “Graduate” school.
When substituting the noun for the name it calls for capitalization.
McDawg
April 16th, 2010
6:00 pm
what happenes when a back like k. moreno flys towards the pylon with ball extended does a flip scores a TD but all the ref sees is some kid showing off–leave the rule the way it was
Mature Person
April 16th, 2010
6:06 pm
How old can a guy like “Old Dawg” be when he likes to start his sentences off with “Dude” ????
Talk about trolling as someone you ain’t. And I guess the guy posting as “Bill King is a …” has effectively tagged himself as a moron with his Tea Party talk. But as to the rule change, here’s all that needs to happen. Unlike last year, the GA coaches need to COACH the players and make sure they understand what’s not to be tolerated. If they’re unsure, I’m sure the SEC officials will be happy to spell it out for them. Sounds pretty simple to me, for someone making the kind of money these coaches are making. Are we cool ????
UGAAlumnus
April 16th, 2010
6:09 pm
@McDawg
A yellow flag and NO POINTS!!! That’s what the rule is for. When the refs need to erase the score, they will see taunting.
Maybe they should start throwing flags on athletes that just look too graceful when they make a play. Hurdle a defender and make him look bad? 15 yard penalty for unsportsmanlike.
Just look too pretty when you juke the d-back out of his socks? 15 yard penalty and loss of down!
AltamahaDawg
April 16th, 2010
6:21 pm
I don’t want them to be “lenient”. I want them to define the rule. Lenient implies that it does break the rule but they are subjectively deciding to let the player get away with it, subject to change. Is diving a penalty or not? If it is, then say so and then everybody knows. If it’s not, then how is that lenient?
Make a tape, cover as many situation as you can find in the past 5 years, define the call, and put it out there in the public domain. This is, this isn’t.
AltamahaDawg
April 16th, 2010
6:24 pm
Mature person, what situation do you define as a UGA penalty last year due to the lack of the coaches explaining it effectvely?
Bad News
April 16th, 2010
6:28 pm
This rule is bad news. If they’re going to put a rule like this in place then it should be targeted to specific actions like throat slashing. The call against AJ was truly horrible. There have been plenty of other botched ones like the one against Jake Locker. If officials can’t discriminate between taunting and celebration then I’d rather see the rule thrown out. At some point some lame call will negate a touchdown and cost someone a game. It’s too much of a judgment call.
I agree that political talk has no place on these boards (and I’m a fan of the Tea Party movement).
AltamahaDawg
April 16th, 2010
6:53 pm
The AJ call is really not a very good example here. The SEC didn’t rule that the ref took it too far, or misinterpreted, or was too subjective. What they said was: what he claimed he saw, never happened. Then that play got confussed in all the celebration-penalty-overly-subjective talk, when in fact it was pure incompetance. There is no good rule if you just make up stuff. He is fortunete that he was though as going overboard, because the fact is he just completely screwed up. And then to cover it he made up a phantom, “Started to look in the general direction of people who where invited to attend” claim, which would have been overly subjective, if that is honestly what he called it for.
GaDawg
April 16th, 2010
7:00 pm
OK! The rules committee wants no injuries, no emotion, and GOOD sportsmanship.
Here is my idea of how we make them very happy.
The teams line up for the kickoff; the kicking team boots the ball down field. While the ball is in the air, the kick off team quickly forms lines on the hash marks on both sides of the field. These two lines of players will extend from the 35 yard line all the way to the end zone providing a safe passage zone for the receiving team.
The receiving team will then jog, RUNNING MIGHT CAUSE AN INJURY, the ball down the field through the safe passage zone formed by the kick off team. When the receiving team enters the safe zone, the kick off team members will applaud the receiving team as they make their way, SAFELY, to the end zone. Once the ball carrier reverently places the ball into the hands of the waiting official, all players and officials will quietly hug, shake hands and extend congratulations one to another. What about the conversion attempt? Awe, just go ahead and give it to ‘em!
The two teams will exchange the kick off, following the same procedure, for the length of the entire game. The team who won the coin toss at the beginning of the game will be allowed to score last giving them the VICTORY!!! As for the spectators in the stadium, there is no more need for emotional outbursts such as screaming, barking, making noise, cheering, or booing the opposing team. Just react with rounds of hearty applause as you would at tennis or on the golf course. And from now on, WHISPER the words
gooooooo dawgs, sic’em! woof, woof, woof, woof, woof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AltamahaDawg
April 16th, 2010
7:03 pm
The u/c call on our TE for “rolling” the first down signal is a much better example of inconsistancy in a subjective rule. I have seen that done countless times without getting called.
bardawg
April 16th, 2010
7:04 pm
As I woke up this morning , the calender said it’s April 16th , not April 1st , cause surely you got to be kiddin about these new rules. Evidently the NCAA have lost thier collective minds instilling such lunacy . Happy April’s Fool Day ?
Old Dawg
April 16th, 2010
7:08 pm
UGAAlumnus: in that instance you must use the name of the institutions.
Small Johnson
April 16th, 2010
7:17 pm
yeah whatever
Seriously
Richt is a great person but you have to realize he owes his SEC championship game appearances to FL losing out during the season and not UGA beating them to get their.
His two wins against FL were not that great when Zook was fired the week before and yes also the defending FL champs were depleted and were mostly freshman and sophmores playing, so big deal.
8-1 against Tech while that is great to talk crap with, really is GT that tough of a win no (yes it is with WILLIE MARTINEZ as your defensive coordinator)
Richt owes a lot of his early success to Van Gordor as we saw after his departure hopefully he has hired the right D coordinator
Under CMR:
UGA has lost to Vandy and Kentucky at home in last 5 years.
UGA is 14-11 against SEC east opponents the last 5 years.
UGA is 2-7 against Florida
UGA is 3-8 against Florida and Tenn. the last five years.
UGA is 2-3 against Tenn. the last five years.
UGA has never beaten won all its SEC east games in a season
UGA has never beaten Tenn and Fla in the same season since the conference was split
You want to compare Saban to Richt well Saban has the upper hand on Richt and he has won 2 national titles to Richts hand me down SEC championships
Arizona State,
Boise State,
Boston College,
Clemson,
Colorado,
Florida State,
Georgia Tech,
Michigan State,
Oklahoma State,
Purdue,
Texas A&M,
Virginia Tech,
West Virginia, and
Wisconsin.
And those are signature wins I don’t really think so.
Again I like Richt but 3 million a year and demanding more money from fans to consistently see teams lose the big game demands in my opinion more than just 10 wins
Richt needs to take a page from Mac Brown and get people who will beat their main rival who prevents them from going to the big game. Lets hope he has done that with the new hires
Dawg in Breman
April 16th, 2010
7:37 pm
Dawg fan here beating my chest about games that happened 4,5,6 decades ago long before I was born. I would much rather have those wins under my belt then to see us beat Florida now. I reminisce about the 7 wins in a row in 1941, 1942, and 1944-1948 on the wikipedia on my laptop while riding home from Jacksonville. I read about the wins from 1931-1936 and my spirits are lifted as I cross the border back into the Peach State. Take that Gator fans, you can have your 17 wins in the last 20 games which I have attended each one of and I will take those runs we went on in the 30’s and 40’s.
yeah whatever!
April 16th, 2010
9:00 pm
and Fla owes its NC to USC losing to UCLA in 2009 and stanford in 2006…..your point?
Small Johnson's Wife
April 16th, 2010
9:45 pm
Now Small go take your medicine. He’s medicated because, unfortunately, he is really, really small.
Dawg in Bremen's boyfriend
April 16th, 2010
9:48 pm
I’m sorry for the rudeness of my “friend.” He’s so angry about another loss to Georgia he threw out all of his gold and black underwear.
Former Georgian
April 16th, 2010
10:37 pm
1. Georgia can forget winning SEC games as long as Tech grads control SEC referreeing.
2. When refs mess up the way they did last year against LSU, they should be fired permanently.
How can we expect 18 yr. old athletes to behave when the supposedly adult referees don’t?
Oh come ON!!
April 16th, 2010
11:46 pm
Do we really need this rule and more BS that refs can call’ I mean really, it’s celebration.The kids get caoght up in the moment sometimes and are pumped up.Besides, if the other teams want to cry about a little taunting, then STOP THE DAMN PERSON WITH THE BALL BEFORE HE CAN BREAK AWAY. Why are people so damn sensitive these days.BOO HOOO, My wittle feewings got huwrt! Don’t play the game then. Society has gotten soft. You know that the Bear, Erk, and every other tough as nails coaches have been constantly rolling over in their graves the past few years w/ all of the pansy a$$ rule changes. Whats next? No tackling, someone might get hurt. Or god forbid someone talk a little smack during the game, they might get their feelings hurt.
Oh come ON!!
April 16th, 2010
11:51 pm
How about we just not keep score at all, then everybody wins, nobody loses and no more hurt feelings! Then afterwards we can all storm the field, hold hands and sing Koom ba ya! That would be so great.
YELLOW HAMMER
April 17th, 2010
12:03 am
yea whatever said it uga was 2-1 in black. like he was proud of that. that = 8-4 .sounds to me that it doesn’t mater black. red .white shirts .black hats.silver britches there still an 8-4 team
The Watergirl
April 17th, 2010
2:17 am
I’m so sick and tired of everytime UGA makes a good play, the first thing I do is look up at the TV to see if yellow flag comes up!!! Putting the officials in charge of judgement calls will ruin the game we know
#2 BAMA FAN
April 17th, 2010
6:00 am
If the wheels fall off the Georgia football team this season who would replace Richt. I hope that never
happens but crazy things happen in college football every year. It is going to interesting who replaces
Nick Saban in a few years at Alabama. I think the new coaches on defense will help the dawgs be a
better team this year and get to play on New Years Day in stead of the weed eater bowl. RTR
BS Patrol
April 17th, 2010
6:33 am
What we need is more stupid rules for stupid officials. A contest of officiating. Just wait There will soon be a “Touching the QB 15 yds penalty”. The more rules for everyone,the better. Better just to lie down on the field.
Richt's Elephant
April 17th, 2010
8:04 am
Richt needs all the help he can get with special rules to beat Florida or Alabama. right now, he’s looking at 3-4 losses and another minor bowl. The SEC refs need to do something next year to get him another win or two. Damon Evans and Michael Adams need to put pressure on the SEC to “restore the dogs” to their glory days of 1980.
Dennis G. Berdanis
April 17th, 2010
8:56 am
Horrible rule change. Fans want less penalties for celebrations not more. The only thing these subjective penalties do is give the refs even more power in protecting certain teams.
NC Dawg
April 17th, 2010
9:17 am
Then, if the official gets overruled on a call against the Dawgs, they should ref the next game with one less official on the Dawgs side.
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2010
9:37 am
The good news is that given the scores of the past couple of Ga/Fla games, the gators would be much more likely to incur a taunting into the endzone penalty than the Dawgs, just based on opportunity.
cliff
April 17th, 2010
10:01 am
Obvious that officials favored Alabama, Florida and to a lesser degree LSU.
Small Johnson
April 17th, 2010
10:29 am
yeah whatever
And whats your point stupid, if UGA would have beaten FL in 2002 we would have played for the NC
Again FL wins the games it needs to win, we do not
Its fans like you who think 10 win seasons are great. Sorry I dont.
I much rather have Saban and Meyers records with championships than a bunch of 10 win seasons
And another thing your to stupid to realize that “SMALL JOHNSON” is making fun of PAUL and the middle school option veer Johnson. Im not a Tech fan you dope
Your intellect is real on the level of a retard
I guess your still crying that your boy WILLIE the great MARTINEZ was fired. Im sure your one of the one’s last year defending the dope.
patrick
April 17th, 2010
12:00 pm
Ur A moron. Fla did win anymore games in 2006/8 than uga won. In 2002……fla NEEDED USC to lose. Dayum u r not too bright.
Ted Stevens
April 17th, 2010
3:13 pm
As you know, the internet is a series of tubes. In these boards we see why these tubes must be regulated. Go you hairy Nanooks.
yeah whatever!
April 17th, 2010
5:11 pm
Fla needed USC to lose in 2006 and 2008.
UGA needed Ohio State to lose in 2002.
THATS the ONLY difference
FLMoonpie
April 17th, 2010
5:36 pm
To: “OH COME ON” It has been said many times that football is nothing more than “Controled Violence”, with the emphasis on “Controled”. Todays college athelete too often forgets that his mere appearance on the field representing an institution is a privalage and not a God given right. Too often these “players” exibit a total lack of sportsmanship….It’s all about “me” and my taudry attitude, about azz whooping and beatdowns. That Sir is not what football or any other game was ever intended to be.
Joes Cox
April 18th, 2010
9:19 am
THE SEASON AIN’T STARTED YET AND GEORGIA FANS ARE ALREADY WHINING ABOUT OFFICIATING?!?
Joe
April 18th, 2010
11:16 am
What a bunch of crap! The SEC officials now can really help UF……what a joke college football has become…I am done with it- good luck!
Dawg Master
April 19th, 2010
9:21 am
The UGA-hating SEC refs will continue to hose the Dawgs on big calls in 2010—mark it down.
DawgVoiceofReason
April 20th, 2010
9:44 pm
Bill,
This new rule is a DISASTER waiting to happen. This rule is almost guaranteed to ruin one or more teams season, when some official costs that team victory by making a mistake on a call in a key game.
Think about this for a minute. This is the most severe penalty in the entire history of college football. This is a rule specifically designed to take 7 points away from a team based ENTIRELY on a subjective call. You may say that other penalties may cost a team a touchdown or many yards in lost yardage, but this rule is set up specifically to take away the points scored. Unbelievable. The FOOLS who made this rule must not have a clue about what happened with some of the horrible calls in the SEC in 2009.