re: The best way to change the SEC referee issues...

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The SEC has to know the backgrounds of all of their refs and be smart enough to not allow refs to work games for the universities that they previously attended or reside by. As far as the scheduling goes an outside committee should be allowed to pull the scheduling together without any bias. Until that happens there will always be favoritism.

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THIS...THIS...THIS. Why can't the presidents make this happen? The only ones against it would be AU and AL.

I agree and I said this a few years ago when something similar came up. There are hundreds of fairly competent officials out there. There should be no reason that any official calls any game involving a team with which he has any sort of connection, even to the point of living in the state involving that team (like, use Texas people to call games between LSU and Ole Miss). Allowing the situation as it currently stands makes people lose faith in the integrity of the system, even it the errors or judgment calls are honestly made. For whatever reason, the SEC will not do this, which again makes the situation look like some favoritism is intentional.

who were the Ref's for the LSU ALA game???

Please list all.... and where they live....

Check the BAMA stats...for years, NO ALABAMA HOLDING.....CHECK IT Out...


but maybe one in the forth quarter when the game is out of reach

As I posted earlier, the scheduling becomes particularly hard to swallow, when the head of the committee in charge of it (Mark Womack) is a Tuscaloosa High Grad, University of Alabama grad, and former employee of the University of Alabama Athletic department. We get South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama gets Missouri and Kentucky. The bottom line is the SEC Office continues to have no concern about what should be apparent and obvious to most: At a minimum the clear appearance of impropriety and, worst case, clear conflicts of interest. But until someone has the balls to publicly call them out (we know it won't be Alleva). don't expect any change.

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But I have my tin foil hat on now

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If we're going to wear tin foil hats, I'll add this. Ran home for lunch today. DVR'd the replay of the game on the SEC network that was showed at 9:00 this morning (I was in the stadium so haven't seen the TV feed). Somewhat interesting that the Vadal Alexander personal foul call was not included in the 2 and a half hour broadcast. You would think, in a game where there weren't a lot of big plays, one of the most important plays of the game wouldn't have been edited out. Kind of reminds me of the PP interception replay controversy, where the replay supervisor in the booth that day (Dick Burleson) was an admitted huge Bama fan. A few days after the game, his website, which documented his love affair with all things Alabama and Bear Bryant mysteriously was removed from the web.

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Sure there are calls that we think are bad, but every team in the SEC can say the same thing every week.

There's no conspiracy here.

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Really, no conspiracy, huh?

LINK

Where the office is located has zero to do with a damn thing. Were there questionable calls? Yes. Happens in every game.

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The University of Texas ran the Southwest Conference for many years, which led to the eventual breakup. The other schools grew tired of being taken advantage of by Texas.

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Classic SWC lineup:

- Texas
- Butthurt school that ran away after blaming Texas for their problems and never won anything after leaving: #1
- Butthurt school that ran away after blaming Texas for their problems and never won anything after leaving: #2
- Aspiring little brother that never made itself look like a jackass like the two schools listed above and quietly realizes that they love being in a conference with Texas
- Church school that got lucky to get in the Big 12 and thanks God that they get to be in a conference with Texas
- Church school that worked long and hard to earn approval from Texas so that they could be in the same conference
- Private school whose ship sailed swiftly decades ago and will obey orders from Texas so that they still get to keep them on the occasional schedule
- Commuter school who publicly admits that it would kill to be in a conference with Texas
- Church school who publicly admits that it would kill to be in a conference with Texas and that they have no proof that Craig James did not kill five hookers while attending in the early 1980's

There are two schools who wouldn't rusty trombone Texas on command; the other six think Texas is a dreamboat.