re: The backjudge is the culprit

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I don't think punishing really blatant taunting is a bad thing, but from the spot of the foul is a bad thing. I am not 100% sure that it was meant to penalize someone like Wing and his semi taunt.

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For the record, I've stated numerous times that I actually don't like ANY rule that addresses taunting. Not to suggest I'm a fan of it...I'm not. I just think rules ought to be confined to what has an actual effect on the game...not visibly being mean to opposing players. It's a rule, in my opinion, written to appease fans who are offended by these types of actions. Frankly, it ought to be up to the coach/university to decide if they want to punish those actions.

As for Wing's deal...of course. It was nothing in the history of showboating. It was so embarrassingly mild that it took still photography to see it!

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Then it should be easy enough to enlighten me or point me to a link.

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It was alleged that the backjudge "jumped on" an LSU player(s)

Which is the point I am addressing.

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For the record, I've stated numerous times that I actually don't like ANY rule that addresses taunting. Not to suggest I'm a fan of it...I'm not. I just think rules ought to be confined to what has an actual effect on the game...not visibly being mean to opposing players. It's a rule, in my opinion, written to appease fans who are offended by these types of actions. Frankly, it ought to be up to the coach/university to decide if they want to punish those actions.

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The real problem with taunting is that it can have an effect down the line. You taunt a guy and then later he throws a punch or something as a result and then everyone wants to know why it was allowed to escalate to that level.

Sad that people want to attack this guy for doing his job and enforcing a rule.

Blame the coaches for the rule change.

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Yes, and the head of SEC officials said the 2006 LSU-Auburn game was called perfectly.

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Got a link? I've never seen a game that was called perfectly.

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And it was easy enough for the B to see Wing, Wing was looking right at him along with two opponents - that's why the flag came from where it did.

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This is all about the spirit of the rule, and instead of pointing out that this rule was meant to stop the type of showboating we can all pull up in our mind's eye with guys like Deion, or Terrel Owens, or Ochocinco, etc we've got guys hiding behind the specifics of the wording as justification for throwing this flag. Instead, the first time this rule is put into effect is on a kicker who flashes his arms out so meekly that it took a still photo to see it in it's full tauntiness. I'm sure this type of behavior is exactly what the rules committee had in mind when they wrote this shitty rule.

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Zip...I realize that as soon as anyone suggests an official got a call wrong your Batsignal goes off and you come to defend them, but will you not admit that the spirit of this rule was to shut down the showboating we all became accustomed to with the guys I mentioned? Are you seriously going to suggest that when the rules committee sat down to address the scourge of taunting and showboating in college football, they would have used THIS play as an example of the type of tomfoolery they wanted to put a stop to? To extrapolate it out to covering what Wing did makes the rule a joke.

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Sad that people want to attack this guy for doing his job and enforcing a rule.

Blame the coaches for the rule change.

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I wouldn't blame the guy for the rule. I don't even know the intent of the rule and if it were meant to address simple things like what Wing did. If the interpretation of the rule was correct, the rule is pretty damned silly and unwarranted.

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Zip...I realize that as soon as anyone suggests an official got a call wrong your Batsignal goes off and you come to defend them, but will you not admit that the spirit of this rule was to shut down the showboating we all became accustomed to with the guys I mentioned? Are you seriously going to suggest that when the rules committee sat down to address the scourge of taunting and showboating in college football, they would have used THIS play as an example of the type of tomfoolery they wanted to put a stop to? To extrapolate it out to covering what Wing did makes the rule a joke.

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Calls are missed every day. There is no news there. But I will comment when someone misinterprets a rule or suggests that any missed call is a result of some nefarious plot to frick LSU.

It's important here, I think to distinguish between celebration and taunting, as the two seem to be getting used interchangably and they are not quite the same thing.

They are actually being a little less stringent on celebration this season, but not really so on taunting.

Of course, without the enforcement change,we likely aren't having this discussion anyhow - and that's on the coaches.

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So why no rule for cursing an opposing player? Surely players are saying things to each other that we can't see off the field (no head bobbing where it's obvious they are jawing at each other) that would burn the ears of some average sports fans? Nope. We get a rule to penalize visible actions...not just because they are more apt to cause issues.

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Hey, talk to the rulesmakers - that is their philosophy.

And of course they are saying shite to each other all game long, and yeah you can see that head bobbing, but it's almost impossible in most instances to know what they are saying. You can't really flag a guy because his head was bobbing, hell he could be telling the guy that he made a great play. But you can see taunting. That's just the way it is.

Nice clip.

Jordy said he told him it was a good call, more than once. What in the clip indicates otherwise? In fact that's pretty much what it looks like he's saying.