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Let me ask you this: If you suspected your wife was cheating, would you be hopeful that she wasn't? Or would you hope that she gets punished without further proof? That's a much more sound analogy.

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Not really.

The SEC is past the point of corruption my friend. I'm sorry you are in denial over it. And I don't mean this as any disrepect towards you. We are at the point now where video evidence is being ignored. You know it, and I know it. The SEC is flaunting it. They are literally waving it in your face, and saying "go ahead and say something. We will a) deny it b) fine you or suspend you and c) move on as if nothing happened".

I think their denial of a problem and "no comment" is proof of their guilt.

I'm sorry, but I have a brain, two eyes (with 20/20 vision) and a big arse TV to watch the games on.

If I was on a jury and there was video evidence of someone killing another person, I would definitely tell the judge that person was "guilty".

JMO. We can agree to disagree.

Something is wrong that needs to be corrected. Either horriblly incompetent officating of something more insidious. The cause has to be determined and corrected.

It's not like college football is immune from bad characters. Heck, the whole "amatuer athletes playing a sport that makes millions for their school" thing is kidn of a recepie for dishonesty.

Something just occurred to me - if the heat gets too great on the SEC regarding officials, I wonder if something won't just "turn up" with some type of evidence regarding one of the more "expendable" schools dealing with recruiting violations or something of that nature. Just as sort of a distraction. It shouldn't be too hard to find something like that. Heck, in Tennessee the players have apparently taken to holding up people with pellet guns.

If they could get something big enough to have traction and eclipse the officiating thing they can appropriately "punish" the one school and come off looking like they are upstanding citizens.

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OK, but video evidence of someone killing someone is much different than video evidence of a few bad calls. Agree?

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Well, yes, I mean, obviously a game and real life trauma are two different things, but one thing is for sure:

Video evidence is video evidence.

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Yes they were really bad calls, but come on. It's not like you have evidence of Slive telling officials to make certain calls. Right now, we should be more concerned with uncovering the truth.

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I, personally don't need to know "how" it has gotten to this point. All I know is that it HAS gotten to this point. I'm not a stupid person. I know corruption when I see it.

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But until then, let's hope nothing is going on.

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I don't think it can get more obvious, nor did I mean my statement to imply that you, personally, don't have a brain.

I understand where you are coming from. You are a fan, you are loyal to your team/school, and you don't want the sport that you love to be corrupt. That, I can appreciate. I'm just past that point. You aren't. Don't get me wrong, I still support my school, and I WILL be at the game Saturday supporting the coach and players. But I've come to grips with what I'm paying for....

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I understand where you are coming from. You are a fan, you are loyal to your team/school, and you don't want the sport that you love to be corrupt. That, I can appreciate. I'm just past that point. You aren't. Don't get me wrong, I still support my school, and I WILL be at the game Saturday supporting the coach and players. But I've come to grips with what I'm paying for....

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OK. That was a great explanation of your feelings. And like you said, I happen to care a lot about this league and the LSU tigers and hoep for the best. I may be drinking the punch, but sometimes you can't help it.

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So what you are saying is that if there is shady practices taking place regarding officiating and controlling outcomes, it is better to leave it alone then to resolve it just because of the risk of recoil?

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Come on now. Read the damn thread. Hell, did you even read my initial post? Show me one statement where I said that.

Exactly. If there are problems, then they need to be addressed.