re: Officiating in T-Town

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Looking at how poor FU was all game and WKU was until the mid fourth quarter, I'm at a 10.

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Which will be least amount of penalties that get on the Tigers to the Elephants 2

My concern with officiating in Tuscaloosa? 10 x 4qtrs + Tom Ritter -sighting divided by 1.

Meh. If Alabama doesn't score a touchdown in overtime last year, after a questionable personal foul penalty backed them up from the 1 yard line to the 16 yard line, then Bama fans would be the ones bitching about a bad personal foul call. The only difference in how the fouls are perceived are how each team and coaching staff responded to the foul in the plays immediately following.

Outside of the Peterson interception, which was an egregious error, this has been a well called football game in the last few years...in fact it's been called better than the average sec game in my opinion. Calls will be missed, it's college football. A player (lsu) getting flagged for getting chippy after a play..that happens weekly. A retaliation call is pretty likely to follow soon afterwards if the other side gets chippy (it did). The perception was always going to pend on what happened after those penalties. That's human nature

is it confirmed that it'll be bug eyes for the bama game?

2 weeks out from playing the game and already this.......

No more concerned than any other game. Which is to say I'm not very concerned.

I do t buy the "they hate LSU, they want Bama to win" stuff.

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So the statistics imply that Alabama is a more disciplined team?

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No. Over the course of over a decade and multiple coaches and players, it implies that the team wearing the Crimson gear gets penalized less than the team wearing the purple and gold gear.



Unless you're suggesting "discipline" is not connected to the coach on the sidelines but something in the water on campus...?

Is that what you're suggesting...?

ETA:

FWIW, I'm not arguing in favor of some grand conspiracy here. But I did find it funny when someone in this thread suggested confirmation bias here. I agree, though I think that leans more towards the way SEC officials judge both programs over the course of an entire season more so than it represents the take of LSU fans. LSU fans can look at the actual numbers and show that, regardless of the players, quality of team, or coaches on the sidelines, since 2003 (and I'd bet my balls this trend goes back further but was only able to get the stats from 2003 and beyond) BAMA has been less penalized in total each and every season than LSU. Why? If this line has run through multiple coaching staffs and tons of players, SOMETHING has to account for why the team wearing gold lids get more penalties each and every season overall than the team wearing crimson ones.

And just because this does not necessarily show itself during the LSU-BAMA game does not make this yearly occurrence inconsequential. By being penalized more each year than our biggest rival, we are forced to overcome far more yardage losses than they are. It makes winning our games harder each week, whether this gap shows itself in the game between our programs or not.

The numbers are what they are. Does it not strike those of you who are trying your best not to jump on the conspiracy train as more than a statistical anomaly that LSU has not been less penalized in ANY season since 2003 (and possibly before that?) What in the holy hell could account for why LSU is ALWAYS more heavily penalized than our greatest rival...?