re: SEC refs targeting LSU?

We need to put videos together of all the calls each week. By we, I mean someone that is competent enough to do this as a member of TD (not me or our coaching staff).

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The ejection of the LSU player was targeting and was the right call.

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Yes, it was but only under present rule terminology.
Just like there is "incidental contact" in the NFL and a difference between "roughing a punter" and "running into a punter" there needs to be a separation between "targeting" and "incidental targeting." Just like Dillon's hit they are quite often accidental. The present rule verbiage needs correcting...IMO.

Etling's helmet was detached from being targeted, apparently his head must be detached too for it to be a personal foul.

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Etling's helmet was detached from being targeted, apparently his head must be detached too for it to be a personal foul.

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Williams got facemasked, too. They didn't call it, I guess, because the visor deflected the hand, but he was tackled by the opening in the helmet - which is a foul.

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Correct, SEC refs appear to be at their worse for Aub games with Bama a close second

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It appears that Alabama, Florida and Auburn get the most benefit from SEC officiating against any opponent. But it does seem that anytime SEC officials are in ANY LSU game there are multiple, highly questionable calls against LSU. Especially in crucial situations like 3rd down conversions and TDs.

When LSU gets an officiating crew from another conference I could maybe pick out one bad call per game against LSU. Which would be a more reasonable number accounting for human error and mistakes. When there are that many officials on the field for maybe 100 plays, instant replay, and instant replay officials in a booth watching it on TV then there is no excuse for more than maybe 2 or 3 missed calls per game total and the statistics should reveal that number fairly evenly distributed among the teams when accounting for sample size error.

We need to reexamine to one with the moonshot. Pics please

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SEC refs targeting LSU

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Agreed! That was horrendous. You would think someone/anyone could have changed that outcome. I think it was a makeup call from the Chark "catch." Fla. would probably have scored anyway but it was one of the worst I've seen a while. 4 steps? That's ridiculous.

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As I understand it, they are not allowed to use cues from one angle to interpret "where the ball really is" from another angle. They have to have the angle that absolutely shows the correct situation.

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Ive always wondered that and if thats the case its absolutely fricking retarded. Its like theyre stating that the laws of physics dont apply in their world. Every angle should be timestamped and you should be able to pause video and switch to other angles to triangulate the positioning of the players and the ball.

Ive paid close attention to this for years and unless the officiating crew have more angles than the broadcast crew then I would have to conclude that replay officials for both the NFL and SEC are incredibly inconsistent in this as Ive seen them both at times compile different angles and at other times refuse to and demand to actually see it conclusively from one angle.

Ive also seen inconsistency in the following scenario that would defy physics:
Frame 1. Player leaning towards goaline carrying ball at shoulder height.
Frame 2. As player is breaking plane with entire upper body from waist up, another player obscures view of ball during this breaking of plane.
Frame 3. With ball still obscured and ball carrier is hit by defender.
Frame 4. Ball carrier driven backwards.
Frame 5. As ball carriers upper body from waist up is then driven out of the plane of the goaline the obscuring player moves away out of view of the ball at a time that the ball carrier no longer posses the ball over the goaline but that the position of the ball still remains at the ball carriers shoulder and in possession of the ball carrier.

In the above scenario its plainly obvious that unless the ball magically disappeared while it was being obscured, then the ball carrier broke the plane with his entire upper body and therefor the ball broke the plane with it, even though you dont actually SEE the ball break the plane. To assume it didnt is to assume that we live in another dimension where down is up and up is down and everything plainly obvious to man from the beginning of time about the physical world suddenly vanishes.

Not buying it. Officials are both corrupt and incompetent and leave opportunities like this to exist along with rules of personal interpretation so that they can be the ultimate arbiters of the game and decide who wins or loses.

From where I sat it shore did look that way.