Dick Burleson, LSU-Alabama replay supervisor

Although the replay official for the LSU-Alabama game was Gerald Hodges, the “replay supervisor” for the LSU-Alabama game was a man named Dick Burleson, according to Alabama sports talk radio host Paul Finebaum. 11-9-2009: Hour 1 The SEC has confirmed Burleson being in the replay booth.

Mr. Burleson’s official website:
https://www.dickburleson.com/index.html

According to Finebaum, Burleson was in the instant replay booth for the LSU-Alabama game. The replay supervisor has the ability to give "advice" about calls involving instant replay. Quoted directly from Mr. Burleson's website … “He is now an SEC staff advisor on officiating and evaluates officials performance each Saturday from the press box and assists with instant replay.” Also, another quote taken directly from his website … “He is a native of Alabama and was inducted into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame.” Mr. Burleson is same man that wrote a book about his time as an official that was named after something his good friend Bear Bryant supposedly said to him during a game ... "You Better Be Right.” Mr. Burleson lives in Blount County, Alabama and often speaks at Alabama booster club meetings, as well as other speaking engagements around the country, and is compensated for those speaking engagements.

A photo taken directly from the front page of Mr. Burleson’s website shows Burleson with Finebaum, a very popular and controversial Alabama sports talk radio host:



Although most reasonable people would agree that there is no “conspiracy” in the SEC in regards to Alabama, most reasonable people would agree that Mr. Burleson should certainly not be involved in any football game involving the Crimson Tide due to his natural bias. But, nonetheless, he was.

What is the SEC’s response to all of this? … “No comment.”



ETA: Since this post on 11-11-2009, Mr. Burleson and/or the SEC has taken down Burleson's official website on 11-12-2009. The website vanished after the SEC was contacted by Fox 8 News about Burleson being in the replay booth for LSU-Alabama and Burleson's ties to the University of Alabama.

ETA#2: For those that didn't get to see Mr. Burleson's website before it mysteriously disappeared, the quotes above were copied and pasted directly from his official website. Many others on here can confirm that to be true as they saw it before the website was taken down on 11-12-09.

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