re: BAMA vs. Adams

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After the flag though, it looked like Miles was yelling at Vadal immediately instead of raising holy hell that there wasn't an offsetting.

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Honestly...so was I. I assumed, wrongly, that Vadal MUST have done something far beyond everyone else in that scrum than what I could see from my seats right above them on the goal line in the EUD. I was pissed that he must have lost his cool and cost LSU a legit shot at a TD.

Turns out, I was wrong. Not only was he not the instigator, he was not even the player on either team who was the most aggressive.

It was the one play of the game (outside of the several catches that were either ruled a catch or not a catch) that I wanted to see when I got home that night on the recording. As low as I felt after leaving that game, I felt even worse when I saw what actually transpired on the play and how it was called. Because I knew that EVEN IF the SEC offices did what they almost NEVER do and came out and said it should have been offsetting, what the frick good does that do days after the game? And even if they do that, to whom are you going to complain? The BAMA grad at the head of the officials?

I realize I've gone on about this for a bit. I'd like this think that my post history, for anyone that cares about such things, shows I'm not some reactionary fan. I don't tend to get too down or too high about these things. the one thing I will lose my shite over though is how LSU (and honestly much of the rest of the conference) gets reamed by several well placed BAMA alumni within the SEC offices. And while I'm sensitive to complaints by some that pointing this stuff out can look whiny, I simply have no ficks to give about that any more. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Our system is broken. so long as the SEC office declares that the only rule for an official is that he can not officiate a game that involves his own alma mater while at the same time having an alumnus of a member university over seeing officiating, no one in the conference ought to have anything other than skepticism in regards to getting a fair shake.

I used to travel to 2 away games a year in the SEC.

Fayetteville was my last trip. Gets old spending your money in this conference. The bridge schedule put me over the top.

Now, I've decided my nine tickets will be 5 next year, and I'm sure time will come when home games won't seem to matter as much.

I know other people will just step up and fill in, but following this conference is disheartening when it comes to the appreciation of fair competition.