When we lose

See, I've been having a problem for a while, now. Whenever LSU loses I can sometimes say the team on the otherside of the field beat us, and the team needs to get better. I get angry and accept that (i.e. Miss St and Auburn).

However, I simply have a hard time stomaching losses where there are more controversial plays than fingers on both my hands. Now, obviously I'm gonna have to give the officials the benefit of the doubt on at least a few of them. Sometimes you miss stuff you know, but this is just getting on the ridiculous side of things.

I just don't believe Bama was the better team, Saturday. And yes, we should have beat Bama anyway, but it shouldn't be decided by the black and white stripes at all. The officials are there to keep the game fair, but I have seen too many Bama games in particular seem biased. A quote from Les Miles stated that they sent in 25 questionable plays.

TWENTY_FIVE!!! That's almost 1/6(16.7%) of the total plays int the entire game (157). I'm sorry, that is just too incredulous. I can see a ref missing 1/10 - 1/4 (10%-25%) of penalties on actual penalty plays, but to miss 1/6 of all the plays in the game? Ok, that's ridiculous.

There's even a thread pointing out 10 missed or wrong calls, along with evidence, on the rant; and it doesn't even mention the blown holding penalties on Bama. In fact, to go both sides, I'm sure the refs missed some on LSU's side, too (not that they didn't make it up with the unsportsmanlike on Vadal Alexander. This just screams incompetence to me. The refs are not only missing obvious calls, they are missing consistently.

Blame the coach, blame the players, but, if anything, blame the refs, too. I want people officiating who actually know what the hell they're doing, biased or not.