re: 10 blown calls by refs that ensured Bama beat LSU, with images

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I am ready to move on but if you do not think the Tigers were Robbed, we definitely see it differently.

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There were some bad calls but if LSU would have made one or two more plays they would have won in spite of it. And we got away with some stuff too.

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if LSU would have made one or two more plays they would have won in spite of it

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Still don't think you get it yet

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Still don't think you get it yet

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Yeah I'm pretty sure I do.

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Yeah I'm pretty sure I do.

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No, I don't think some of you do.

I don;t think anyone is in disagreement that if LSU had made more plays they could have overcome these issues that are being brought up. That's clearly the case. But then, that's the case in literally ANY situation where horrendous officiating effects a game. The team on the short end of the stick could have always played harder, made that extra play, gone above and beyond to overcome getting hosed, etc.

My question is...why does it seem perpetually necessary that LSU do this when playing Alabama? Why be so quick to seemingly accept this role rather than seek to rectify any potential issues that would require LSU to go beyond merely winning but winning large enough to overcome officiating problems?

I appreciate the lack of desire to look weak...to appear to be whining. No one likes that. But isn't being a dupe worse? Why should any of us (or for that matter the other 12 members of the conference) give two shits what BAMA fans consider "whining?"

BAMA fans do not respect you. A fanbase that sings Rammer Jammer is incapable of that. So long as the rest of the conference minds its business, stays quiet for fear of being called whiners, BAMA will continue to run roughshod over the remaining members by virtue of its undue influence within the SEC offices.

Put it this way...as an LSU fan, would you feel more, less or the same level of comfort having the SEC offices located in New Orleans with the #3 guy at the conference table who is most directly responsible for scheduling be an LSU alumnus and and LSU alumnus be the head of officiating? I'd be ecstatic, and I'd assume everyone else in the conference would be leery of the expected LSU bias to come.

You remember the final scene in The Untouchables with Kevin Costner and Sean Connery? Where Ness tricks the judge into switching the paid for jury with the jury next door? I imagine the average BAMA fan's reaction would be similar to DeNiro's if tomorrow the SEC offices packed up shop, moved West into office space in NOLA and made sweeping changes to some of the most prominent members of the administration.

We simply don;t get anything, respect or otherwise, for sitting quietly while getting systematically fricked. Sitting quietly while it happens is essentially emboldening the behavior.

#5 was an egregious call.

Excellent post. No sarcasm.

To preface: this thread is not about other things we should have done better that could've changed the outcome nor is it to say there were infractions we 'got away with', it's about a specific subset of plays that appear to have been incorrect calls. Discuss these.

I'll comment on two:
2) Had there been no call or offsetting PF's, no one would've looked at this and said the refs should've flagged that. It was a chicken poop call.
3) CRob is lined-up in the neutral space. Bama should've been flagged for encroachment.

Bonus: the contexts for the Vadal PF and the OT PF were dissimilar. For one, there was no clock in play in OT.

#1 was a catch. Ground didn't aid him.

Miles said our coaches in the booth told him it was a catch and do not review. There was no way it was getting overturned

There's an old saying that penalties occur on every single play, but the refs only catch a tiny fraction of 'em. The refs only called 5 penalties for the teams COMBINED, so they obviously just left the players free to play without much intervention. Honestly, no matter what happens from here on out, the final results (20-13) won't change--however, if the Tigers dwell on this past event instead of preparing for Arkansas (in only four more days), then they could lose again.