re: Shaw's response to Sternberger fumble

I think had the ball carrier been hit low the receiver would have gone to the ground with the ball. That's a catch in my eyes.

Sternberger clutched the ball firmly with both hands took one full step turned his direction upfield (football move) and was hit as second full stride was inches from complete.
There is no reference to two steps in the rule but what would have changed in that play result if he had touched that third foot to the ground? 100% would have been ruled a catch.
As far as tucking the ball away, he had no intention of tucking it because he was attempting to avoid a tackle by Greedy.

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When in question, the catch, recovery or interception is not completed.

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the player slamming his hand down the second he lost the ball tells me even he knew he caught it and fumbled it...


Like i said, all these "Experts" and such are going to anything or say anything they can to "make it cloudy"... or say its a judgement call or could have gone either way.... all bullshite... thats what people do after they make mistakes... personlly id feel better if the ref came out and said "hey, i fricked up it cost LSU a win, im sorry" i could live with that... but covering shite up like they didnt make mistakes makes me hate them even more....


kinda like that umpire a few years ago that cost a pitcher a perfect game... right after the game he was crying saying i cost that kid a perfect game... the pitcher said it was cool, he knew and everyone else knew he threw a perfect game... just like what should happen here... everyone knows LSU won that game, if the officials apologized and said yeah we cost LSU that game, you wouldnt hear shite from the faggies..

Bama grad will not admit to anything.

Did anyone ask Bama Grad why the officials didn't allow the play to go through, then review?

There were two other instances in the game where this happened and the right thing was done.

Why was the wrong thing done in this spot?

It is OK. Those questions are rhetorical.

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There is not some big conspiracy to make bad calls on only LSU.

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Correct. It isn't a conspiracy. Bad calls against the lower tier teams in the SEC is very common place. Just part of the package.

Tenn, MSU, Mizzou among others, had some pretty blatantly obvious calls/non-calls go against them this season as well. Some of these non-calls included punches to the face, body punches, and targeting that concussed one team's QB. Nothing was called.

To ignore these patterns is to ignore the obvious.

He took 2 steps with the ball moron

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LNCHBOX

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If Webster's Dictionary every picks up the word
"negatiger" your picture should be next to it.

Once he has control of the ball, which he clearly does as soon as his hands contact the ball because it was a clean catch, and he takes a step upfield, he has committed a football move or a move common to the game. Shaw is just covering his arse.

I do know this. It seems that all that billboard shite worked on Alabama HQ in Birmingham. They are actually responding to criticism of the officials now. Possibly trying to control the narrative and head off any possibility of another round of billboards.

back for more?

you must be a glutton for punishment.

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So......if you grab the ball with your hands and hold it out if front of you for five yards

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Your purple and gold glasses are showing

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Why? Because he pointed out that having the "ball tucked away" isn't a legitimate criteria for what constitutes a catch? He's right. Whether the ball is tucked away or not is it relevant to the process of a catch. Guys catch the ball all the time without tucking it away.