Super sophomore A.J. Green caught a touchdown pass with 1:09 remaining, putting Georgia on top of LSU 13-12.
Following the play, Green was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. For what? I have no clue.
Based on the replays shown by CBS, Green did absolutely nothing worthy of a penalty. Nothing.
It was a horrible call, and a possible game-changer as well as the 15 yards forced UGA to kickoff from their 15-yard line. And it gave the Tigers possession inside the fifty following the return.
And, as I’m typing this, Charles Scott raced 33 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with :46 left in the game. With the conversion of the two-point try, LSU is up 20-13.
Again, a horrible, horrible call on the part of the officials for flagging Green. A call that has changed the complexion of the game, and may allow the No. 4 team in the nation to escape with a win they may very well not deserve.
I guess that penalty on Scott wasn’t horrible either. Or that Spot on the 4th and 1. The refs did things to both teams. Don’t be biased.
Don’t comment unless you watched the whole game. There were equally crappy calls on both sides all 60 minutes. This was one of the worst officiated games I have seen in the SEC in the last 15+ years!
Tiger Hater….
GEAUX Tigers!
Yeah, you guys are right. He definitely shouldn’t be reporting on anything about any game unless he watched the *whole* thing personally.
And therefore can only report to the rest of the internet on 3, maybe 4 games every weekend. Sounds like a good way to increase business!
Get off his back, Cajuns
As an LSU Tiger, I have to say that the call was a shit call. There is so much inconsistency in things like that being flagged. The NCAA needs to do something about it.
That being said, the Tigers still would have scored to win.
You may want to TiVo the next game you decide to comment on so you can see the terrible unsportsmanlike conduct calls that were called all day on LSU. Try to get your facts straight.
Refs everywhere are making horrible calls and I think they are obviously biased, maybe gambling? There was a game in Florida today (they are in the sunbelt conference) and a guy from Wyoming that ran in for a touchdown was called for unsportsmanlike conduct (by Sunbelt Conference Refs). Not only could you not see where the unsportsmanlike conduct occurred, they penalized the team on THAT SAME DOWN – not the ensuing kickoff… giving them a 15 yard penalty and making them replay the down. It was a fake field goal on a 4th and 10. The coach complained and they give the team another 15 yard penalty.
The NCAA needs to start investigating this stuff.
I agree with that last statement!! The NCAA
does need to do some investigating !!!!
Any call that is questionable, almost always involves LSU!!!!!!!
we picked the ref crew at the lsu/georgia game as the most dishonest of this week.
there is no question that these sec refs made the calls they did so that lsu and not georgia would win the game.
having the ncaa investigate this incident of dishonest reffing or tech reviewing is like having iran investigate its own nuclear arms program.
after the public war which erupted in the press between the big 12 conference and the pac 10 conference after the 9/16/2006 theft of a clear win by oklahoma over oregon by completely dishonest all pac 10 ref and tech review crews, then pac 10 commissioner tom hansen and then pac 10 conference official in charge of football reffing and tech reviewing, jim muldoon were forced to admit publicly that the dishonest reffing and tech reviewing by pac 10 refs and tech reviewers had indeed altered the outcome of the game and promised to take severe disciplinary action against every ref and tech reviewer involved.
there was, at that time, and still is, no mechanism at the conference or ncaa or bcs levels for altering the outcomes of games which have been determined by dishonest refs or tech reviewers.
there were and are methods of doing so in the civil courts.
however, the sooners and the big 12 did not elect the civil court route.
coach stoops would have, but coaching is a full time job.
instead, big 10 commissioner jim delany and then big 10 conference official in charge of football officiating, who have been running a crooked officiating con operation in the big 10 for many years went out and sold the conferences and the ncaa on the idea that the public would be satisfied if the conferences and the ncaa created the false impression that national ref and tech review supervision was taking place at a national level.
in december of 2007, the conferences and the ncaa jointly formed and funded a new entity called college football officiating llc(there is actually a website of that name, just as there is for every conference listing, among other things, the names of the conference officials in charge of officiating for football and for other sports.
picked to run college football officiating llc as the 1st national coordinator of college football officiating is dave parry of the big 10, who was replaced at the big 10 by one of his protogees, bill carollo.
the board of directors of college football officiating llc was composed of jim delany of the big 10, tom hansen of the pac 10, and representatives of every bcs conference since there is not one conference which is not running a coverup for crooked officiating scams.
meanwhile, back at the pac 10 conference, tom hansen and jim muldoon decided that the proper discipline for the head ref at that 2006 oregon/oklahoma game was to promote that head ref, dave cutaia, to be the pac 10 conference official in charge of football reffing and to create a new position for muldoon so that cutaia would report directly to muldoon.
however, hansen was getting nervous and resigned before the 2009 season, leaving muldoon and cutaia in place.
hansen and muldoon and cutaia had a plan. they figured that they would go out and find a new pac 10 commissioner with no connections with any pac 10 school and with no real knowledge of college sports and keepp that person on the speaking and travelling circuit while they ran the pac 10 crooked officiating con operation just like old times.
well, they picked larry scott, who had played college tennis at harvard and as a pro and then founded the very successful and very honestly run wta-womens’s tennis pro tour.
scott has not turned out to be nearly as pliable as hansen, muldoon, cutaia, and their colleagues at the other conferences thought.
scott is actually starting to look at crooked college sports enterprises and to get outraged.
when you add in the money from the sports bookies to the school booster money and the fact that the refs and tech reviewers and those who protect them at the conference and ncaa levels really think that they can get away with anything, you have a multibillion dollar a year con operation, which makes the enron and mci worldcom scams,which we took down in the civil courts with civil rico actions long before the feds every started the criminal cases, look like child’s play.
if anyone wants to know why the crooked officials and those who protect them think that they are untouchable, look at the websites of every conference, get the names of the conference officials in charge of football officiating and then try to get any information on the backgrounds of those conference officials and any information at all on the backgrounds of the game refs for any conference, whose names are listed in the full box scores at the websites of most schools, which usually go back for at least 10 years.
your requests will be completely ignored, unless you are willing to serve court subpoenas, as we are and as the ap and other media organizations were when the ncaa refused to release any documents or information at all on the investigation of academic fraud at florida state and the ncaa’s proposed sanctions only to lose that battle before judge cooper in florida and, more recently, at the 1st level of appeals.
why can the honest schools and honest coaches and honest student athletes do nothing about these outrages?
well, every conference and the ncaa have ironically named sportsmanship conduct rules which prohibit coaches, schools, and student athletes from complaining publicly about dishonest officiating.
the penalties for violating the keep quiet about crooked officiating rules are severe economic sanctions, plus the very real threat of being banned from future participation in college athletics or, as the ncaa actually threatened florida state during the public trial about making the ncaa records public, kicking florida state out of the ncaa.
with plenty of experience in wrecking con operations like enron and mci worldcom and many other huge con operations with severe economic violence in the civil courts, we will have no trouble taking wrecking balls to the current conference and ncaa structures and relieving those responsible of their material assets.
however, with enron and mci worldcom, wrecking the con operations and punishing, with severe economic prejudice those responsible was enough.
in the case of college football and college sports, we are dealing with activities which are crucial to the future of this nation if conducted honestly.
therefore, along with the wrecking balls, we need honest and transparent to the public replacement structures.
we did not have to look very far. we started with the high tech devices which many of us saw solve all corruption problems in the swimming races at the peking olympics and applied variations of those same high tech devices to college football, basketball, and other sports, along with complte transparency to the public of the backgrounds and finances of every individual who works at the new conference and ncaa strutures, including computer programmers and everyone who determines the settings and readouts of the high tech devices that determine whether or not there has been holding or false starts or late hits or other penalties.
the days of crooked college sports enterprises are rapidly coming to an end, although there will be those who try to fight to preserve those huge crooked cash flows and fancy material possessions, as ken lay of enron and bernie ebbers of mci worldcom did, only to lose big time, with ken lay electing the suicide out.
there are many honest people involved with college sports who have, and continue, to provide us with invaluable evidence at the risk of losing their jobs and in the face of real threats of physical violence to themselves and their families.
as has been the case with enron and mci worldcom and other huge con operations, it is these brave and courageous individuals who deserve the real credit for the events which are starting to take place and will accelerate more rapidly than any of the participants in crooked college sports enterprises could possibly imagine.
robertg, I agree that there needs to be more strict oversight of reffing to weed out incompetence, dishonesty, or whatever it may be. But to be accurate, nobody in the Oklahoma incident you refer to admitted to “dishonesty”. They only admitted that a call was blown. You may believe it was the result of dishonesty as opposed to incompetence, but nobody “admitted” that such was the case. The officials were suspended and it was the Big 12 commissioner who shot down any notion of seeking further changes or remedies.
There are lots of examples of conference refs benefitting conference schools with seemingly inexplicable calls. Probably the single greatest, most consequential example is the Big 12 officiating crew who permitting Colorado a 5th down which led to Colorado prevailing over Missouri. Colorado, a conference team, went on to win the 1990 National Champsionship. The Big 12 refs deliberated for 20 minutes and still upheld the call. The Big 12 conference also upheld the result.
Its always impossible to say whether these incidents are the result of dishonesty, incompetence, etc. Regardless of the reason, the best that anyone can do is put procedures in place to lessen the possibility of these things happening. Officials are always going to blow calls, though.