re: SEC says there was a mistake on Green call

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I'm telling ya'll, the SEC office is just lubing us up for the screwing we're gonna get from the officals against either the Barners or the Gumps.

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Yup

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tiger fans are pissed because at the end of the article it says that the Scott call was made correctly.

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This is the correct answer.

It was clearly a make up call. As someone pointed out, Keiland does this after EVERY touchdown, and it has NEVER been called.

This whole celebrating crap is bullshite. Either allow celebrating or don't allow it. Don't sit and split freaking hairs about why it is or is not excessive. The UGA dude DID turn toward the crowd and stood with a "I'm a bad-arse" stare like 30 seconds after he scored and had already chest bumped his teammate and done plenty of celebrating. Scott simply pointed up immediately and then celebrated for a few seconds with teammates. No way one should have been called without the other. What crap...as long as you aren't storing a pen in your sock for autographs and you get off the field within a reasonable time frame, then there should be no penalties. And if it takes too long to get off the field it should be a five yard delay of game penalty.

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It's entirely possible LSU would have scored anyway, but to simplify it by saying you can just add 15 yards to Scott's run is to fail to realize how the time/space continuum is altered by everything that happens before each event.

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still waiting on our apology from Auburn 06

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the Auburn call affected the outcome wayyy more than the call at UGA. it effectively ended the game. UGA got a make up call and could not take advantage. They had plenty of chances to win

In addition to the apology, it would have been good if the SEC told UGA that they were still responsible for their poor kickoff coverage following the call and THEIR player missing the tackle on Chuck the Truck. As I said in an earlier post, it is the intellectually lazy thing to do(blame the refs). Whatever happened to accountability?

Did they apologize for the blown call on the Shepard nonfumble where the refs placed the ball back 2-3 yards or so back from where Shepard was down, which changed that series of plays (when we didn't get a 4th down conversion which we should have, but UGA did their job and we didn't)?

I find the whole "apology" thing unseemly by the SEC office and a response more to the media uproar than a sincere effort at acknowleging an error. The Scott celebration was clearly a make-up call, no matter what justification the SEC office may offer. Both calls were bogus and the refs did a poor job, period, in both instances.

The celebration rule needs to be rewritten so that it can be applied with some reasonableness. As it is, it is totally subjective with the refs and there is no consistency. (No call against Tebow in 2007 for the mock cell phone call for example, which frankly did't bother me. I thought it was funny when he did it.)

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Without the celebration penalty on Green, Scott's TD run would've been 48 yards, not 33.

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This!

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Said Redding, "I don't doubt the official saw what he saw. We didn't see the player pulling himself away from his teammates and going towards the stands in a form of self-congratulation."

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Finally saw a replay earlier that showed what I believe the ref saw.

When Green is celebrating with his teammates (the SECOND group he went to for celebration btw, that itself was what I thought the excessive was for), he jumps around with them, and then turns to the crowd and gestures. This coincides exactly with what the official said after the game.

Green's penalty was the only one I thought was fine by the rule due to it seeming excessive in nature (celebrating TD, jumping to a group of teammates, then finding ANOTHER group of teammates to jump into all while still on the field). Scott's was bullshite. The earlier one on Georgia was bullshite as well.