What is it with these whiners that cannot ever stop in their incessant whine about the officiating that we all know is in reality most competent...unbiased ...and never..ever...has any effect whatsoever on the outcome of SEC games... First Spurrier the whiner goes off with his off-color jokes about the SEC officials and now this clown has his say as well... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/11/22/fullmer.reprimanded.ap/index.html These guys need to learn what a lot of you educated Skyboxers have already learned...overcome it...ignore it...accept it...or...discuss "free of referee topics" games because it's not all that important anyway. :roll:
I agree with the SEC office. There are channels to discuss these issues. He chose to not use those channels and should have been reprimanded. Unlike some, I don't think that my coach is above reproach.
so let me get this straight <t>you are saying that the SEC officials cheat??<br/> <br/> well if they cheat their 'kin folk' down there, what the hell are they doing to those Pac10/Big10/Big12 teams that come calling during the season??</t>
Must be something in the water or the air down there in SEC country that makes this such a culture-defining issue. No other region or conference in the country whines and complains about the referees like the SEC, its coaches and and its followers.
The SEC is a crooked conference. The "fix" is in. It's one giant con game. Vince McMahon is next in line to be named SEC president. Home cookin'... southern style. There. I feel better now.
There may be a culture of "good ole boys" who somehow think that they can and will influence a game. Think boosters run amuck. Think Albert Means and his Bama benefactor who thought money could buy Bama wins. Nowhere in the country is college football as big a part of the blood and passion as it is in the south. For many, many years there were very few pro franchises of any sort in the south and the only game in town...many of them small towns...was college football. Think basketball for Kentucky or highschool football in the Texas rural areas. When a guy who lives in Alabama and has a son attending Auburn and he is the replay official for a huge SEC game on a Sat. for an Auburn home game and then, he is suddenly moved to complete inaction when on the field there is a highly reviewable, game changing turnover you have to wonder what is coursing through his thoughts. From an LSU news article: "The replay official in the controversy plagued LSU-Auburn game on Sept. 16 was Al Ford, a native of Huntsville, Ala" The same guy who did Aub-Fla. Why is this guy doing the replay on Auburn games? How can that possibly make sense to anyone? Why doesn't Ted Kennedy decide the Boston mayoral race between the DEM candidate and the GOP candidate? I'm quite sure ole Teddy would be fair and square eh?