Eli Drinkwitz calls on reporters to ask SEC for explanation on officiating

For the second year in a row, Eli Drinkwitz and his Missouri Tigers were able to push the Georgia Bulldogs to the brink but came up short in the end. In this year’s game, there were several officiating decisions that stood out and that Drinkwitz didn’t seem to be happy about during or after the game.

One of the most notable was when, after review, an offensive pass interference against Georgia was wiped out because the throw landed behind the line of scrimmage. Drinkwitz didn’t have an explanation for that call and suggested reporters ask the SEC for an explanation.

“The thing about our league is that there’s not really any explanations and then there’s no explanations to y’all from them,” Eli Drinkwitz said. “So, I mean, you can ask me all you want. I can’t really say anything, but better question is to ask them because I thought it’s, whether or not it’s conclusive evidence, I can’t see any conclusive evidence where the ball is. But, apparently, in Birmingham they found conclusive evidence. So, I don’t know, I guess you’ll have to write a letter to somebody there and see if they’ll answer it.”

That offensive pass interference wasn’t the only call that had Eli Drinkwitz frustrated. He also took issue with the clock running before the half on a play that he thought ended out of bounds.

“Ball goes out of bounds, it should be a dead clock. I mean, I don’t know what else to ask. The ball goes out of bounds it should be a dead clock. Yet, they wind it and then there’s no explanation to anybody about it. So, I mean, I don’t know. They always come over there, it doesn’t matter now,” Drinkwitz stopped himself from complaining.

“So, there’s no explanation on why it wasn’t a dead clock. And so for us, if we do go out of bounds and they stopped the clock there, then we don’t let it run off. We try to move the ball and get into field goal range. That was the design of the scheme and the play. Guess you’ll have to, again, try to ask them that question.”

Eli Drinkwitz weighs in on sign-stealing, takes shot at Michigan

In the wake of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal, a lot of coaches have weighed in and shared their thoughts. That included Eli Drinkwitz, who took a shot at Michigan when discussing the idea of putting a speaker into headset.

“Yeah, I think everybody but Michigan probably would want to,” Drinkwitz said.

“I think the playoff’s worth a billion dollars, but we can’t afford to put wireless headsets. It’s mind blowing to me on some of this stuff.”