re: Farrell's ejection seemed like an incidental deal

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Would you prefer he just never try to rush the QB? I'm not sure what you're supposed to tell a kid if this is a penalty. We don't live in a cartoon world where you can stop on a dime.

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You tell him to use his hands instead of lowering his head for a head butt. You tell him if he does head butt his azz will get kicked out of the game.

After watching Foster dive head first into Etling last year while Etling was sliding feet first with no call, I just laugh at all this "targeting" crap.

Glad I turned the game off after the second TD was called back and didn't see any of this garbage.

You know, I saw tons of times where our guys were just simply blocked all the way out of bounds. At least 4-5 different occasions. More than 5 yards from the LOS, and forcing a player OOB. Bull shite that never got called.

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You tell him to use his hands instead of lowering his head for a head butt. You tell him if he does head butt his azz will get kicked out of the game.

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Talking about Farrell here, not Donnie.
He didn't lower his head, and he actually used his hands first, and did everything he could to not touch the QB. The contact was minimal and in no way "targeting". It was a terrible call. you want to call a personal foul on it, fine, but not targeting and an ejection when a guy was literally trying to get out of the way and not make contact.
Donnie deserved his ejection, not for hitting him late, but for lower his helmet and making contact with the head, like an idiot.

I just want to know that if this means we will even get a flag thrown this year when Alabama eventually launches themselves at our QBs head once again

Her lowered his head for the head butt. Good call. The only way to stop this is to call it. Repeat offenders should be suspended for multiple games.

Agree. The way I saw it, Farrell was moving forward, did not lower his head; the QB was moving toward him ... not sure what Farrell could've done any differently. Their facemasks collided -- did not see Farrell intentionally lower the crown of his helmet. Overall, the officiating was horrible -- that offensive PI call to take away a TD really hurt, and no doubt affected LSU momentum, but, good teams find ways to overcome bad calls, and LSU did not.