The "this" I'm referring to is the idea of paying refs to be full time employees. I doubt this is done anywhere in the world where refs officiate maybe 15 games a year.
SEC Officials on the Take
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The "this" I'm referring to is the idea of paying refs to be full time employees. I doubt this is done anywhere in the world where refs officiate maybe 15 games a year.
how many dollars would you put on the event of Mississippi State vs Arkansas? how much is that event, in and of itself, worth?
We shouldn't minimize the impact of the calls based on the final score. If, for example, the very first call were reversed as it should been and we were awarded a TD, it changes everything going forward--momentum, player/coach mentality on both sides of the ball, play calling on Arkansas' next possession, etc. The score could have ended very differently including the extremes of our winning to our getting a worse beatdown.
Since I'm from Mississippi, I'm prolly not smart enough to understand all the logistics, but $1 billion is one thousand million, right? I don't need to know how they do it. I just don't want to see my people screwed over by the incompetence of it.
Every team gets bad calls that go against them. The good teams overcome them and move on. The bad teams get hung up on how one or two calls changed the whole direction of the game, and maybe someone is out to get them.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, anytime Alabama lost a game, which was rare, their fans would complain about bad calls. I know a guy who still claims Bo Jackson was short of the goal line in his over the top leap in 1982.
And who all remembers those Auburn knuckleheads in 2014 complaining about bad calls in Starkville? Every time I looked at the replays I saw textbook penalties, but whatever.
I still don't think Rod Gibson got in the end zone against LSU in 1999. But I dont feel bad about it.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, anytime Alabama lost a game, which was rare, their fans would complain about bad calls. I know a guy who still claims Bo Jackson was short of the goal line in his over the top leap in 1982.
And who all remembers those Auburn knuckleheads in 2014 complaining about bad calls in Starkville? Every time I looked at the replays I saw textbook penalties, but whatever.
I still don't think Rod Gibson got in the end zone against LSU in 1999. But I dont feel bad about it.
You have a winner's attitude. I appreciate it. I don't think that the team altered its efforts based upon the calls.
Nonetheless, do you think that the calls were correct? Did the calls change the momentum of the game?
I don't know what game you were watching, but Gibson definitely got in that end zone.
The question is whether it was on the first or second bounce...
And to my earlier comments, I just saw an article about Nebraska being very upset over calls helping Ohio State yesterday in a close game. More incompetence or a little help? Who knows…..
Lo, I hate to be an a--hat, but I am what I am. Winners do NOT give one f about how a broken system benefitted them. (see also one Nicholas Saban). Are you all not enraged by seeing MSU get completely screwed over and disregarded in a pivotal moment in a pivotal game in a season that is hanging by a thread?
Sure it's just one call. Then, it was just one more call. Then, we better make one more call on the touchdown we called. Sure, we're just making calls. What are these refs sellin'? Vacuum cleaners?
You do have a voice. Outside of Mississippi, there are college football fans who love the game and the sport of it.
Regardless of all the other jibber jabber there is a big difference between 1 inch and 36 inches.
OP’s name checks out. Arkansas beat the dog sh!+ out of the worst team in the SEC. 58 to 25 or 58 to 46 covers the spread either way. Yes, there were some terrible calls made, but Arkansas is a better team and deserved to win. The only “due reward” for this poorly coached team is a 1-11 record and a coaching staff and administration that can’t sit down all summer for the white hot flames under their seats.
Heard this exact same message last weekend after she left me
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Treat them like the NFL does practice squad players. Pay them to be there from preseason through the end of the regular season. The ones that grade out the best get to earn more by being in the playoffs and championship games.
At the end of the day, it is "entertainment". Yes, I think NFL refs are told to maybe be "lenient" on some people or teams. You can't say that Mahomes or Brady would have been tackled for a safety only by the facemask and it would not be called. Never going to happen.
I don't like Cam Newton but hits on him were definitely called differently vs other QBs like Brady at the time. It wasn't just a one of thing where one ref crew called it different, it was every week.
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