re: Ritter's history of hating LSU.

The stats are on r/cfb right now and they actually are disturbing. We're flagged at a MUCH higher rate than other teams by SEC crews. Refs can throw a flag on basically every single play if they want to and if you can't see that SEC refs are fricking us around and going overboard then you're a moron

ETA: they were posted here while I was typing that

Denny, No team should use officiating as an excuse for poor performance. With that said, how would Bama feel if an LSU grad was the Head official for Bama games against LSU? ...and there was empirical evidence that that official failed to call the game both ways. I am not saying that Ritter is guilty of that...but assume there is such evidence. The way I see it, no alum of a competing team should be calling that team's games. In any other setting, it would clearly be a conflict of interest. I think it is a conflict in this context also. Ritter's crew has missed some critical calls over the years in LSU games...but that's just anecdotal and not proof of bias. My point is to avoid the appearance of impropriety, no alum of any school should officiate their school's games. If that were the rule, no one could complain about any perceived bias on that basis. It's just a conflict of interest issue for me that should be a rule throughout the league.