re: The Big Eye Doesn’t Lie

By watching the video, he did. Just didn't get the spot.

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By watching the video

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Watch the video again and see if he doesn't brace for the hit, thus giving up a yard or two. When it's going to be close, stick your damn head down and run over someone. Or at the very least, dive forward.

He made it easy for the ref to give him a bad spot.

Good article. Still cant quite get behind the conspiracy theory. It still seems like incompetent officials to me. Your explanation of SEC history was very helpful. By the way, How do they find and more importantly vett and train these guys to be refs? What are the qualifications required? That might prove to be an intersting article. Really liked the idea of using 30k in fines for eye exams. Let's throw in a few pairs of eye glasses while we are at it.

This is a pitiful column. First you make a blanket accusation against the SEC. Ok, fine, make the charge. Now how about backing it up. You just mention several bad calls in a game and an eye-gouging incident that could've been missed by an official.

Why don't you do some actual journalism or fact-checking if you're going to write this crap. Why don't you start pulling records and checking the number of penalties called against each school. in SEC games v. their opponents. You know, some actual statistical analysis? Like in X number of games Bama and Florida only average X number of penalties yet their opponents average Y number of penalties. Would help even more if you showed how little penalized teams suddenly saw the yellow flag epidemic whenever they played Bama or Florida.

I hope Chicken didn't pay you for this because the only reason people are reading this column is because the name Chris Warner is on it as if it gives the column some special authority because the column itself sucks.

Nice work! Makes me feel better.

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And thats where your wrong. HOW can the stats prove it in a game where the refs were biased? IF all the calls were correct and all the right penalties called, the STATS, would be A LOT DIFFERENT. And you might have been looking at an LSU victory and saying they deserved to win. Your logic of blaming the refs and then saying the STATS proved UA had a better game is just IDIOTOTIC. Am I the only one with common sense around here? Good Lord.

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excellent post, I just don't have the time to read through all of these threads but I did find that this (yours) this Mon. AM. But, Common Sense went out the window years ago! Just look around you when you are away from home, pay attention to the people?

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Good Stuff....

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HOW can the stats prove it in a game where the refs were biased? IF all the calls were correct and all the right penalties called, the STATS, would be A LOT DIFFERENT. And you might have been looking at an LSU victory and saying they deserved to win. Your logic of blaming the refs and then saying the STATS proved UA had a better game is just IDIOTIC.

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A very good point. I think both teams are filled with excellent players. I believe (even after venting for a day and a half - that is the purpose of the Rant, right?) that Coach Miles and Coach Chavis had LSU totally prepared to leave Tuscaloosa with a win and for 3 quarters it looked like that would possibly happen. Then, even after a game filled with nick-nack bad calls and no-calls that favored Alabama, the refs struck the dirty bomb and refused to allow an obvious interception - one the would likely have turned game momentum around in LSU's favor and could very well have ended in an LSU drive and score in the end zone. No, Alabama was not the better team. There were great plays and players on both sides. But the Refs left their indelible stamp on the whole thing, and the smoking ruins of a game with lots of promise now stinks to high heaven.

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He made it easy for the ref to give him a bad spot

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i agree that JJ does seem timid when it comes to getting hit at times. who knows, that may be a coaches decision and then again it may be him

but I did see some favorable spots going the other way during that game or did we watch the same game? Oh BTW, I do not drink during game time and I rarely drink at my age these days anyway. What about the cheap penalty of running into the kicker, review it please? That was a great selling job if there was one!

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What about the cheap penalty of running into the kicker, review it please? That was a great selling job if there was one!

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think that was a good call. It was just the 5 yarder, and we did make contact.