Coach Heupel at the mic for his weekly press conference-Kentucky Week

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Jaxon_Vol2017 said:
So nobody had the balls to ask him about the officials. Weak.
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Yeah, considering that all Heupel would accomplish by complaining about the refs is (1) more scrutiny and punishment from the SEC officiating crews and (2) possible steps taken by the SEC to fine and/or punish either Heupel or Tennessee, I don't know what anyone could expect from a question like that. I'd imagine it was made known to the reporterss there that asking questions like that wasn't going to help anything - or be appreciated - or else someone would have asked.

The schools have a lot of leeway, but the conferences hold the TV contract purse - and the rulebook. There's only so much you can get away with before they will put their foot down, and that goes for any school at any of the big conferences.
 
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So a guy on our front line on the kick-off pointed at the ball going overhead and the a-hole who threw the flag is expecting everyone to believe that he or a Bama player thought he was signaling for a fair catch for our guys standing back on the goal line. If the SEC office doesn't address this, then we know it's more than just some crooked officials.
 
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DonDiego said:
So a guy on our front line on the kick-off pointed at the ball going overhead and the a-hole who threw the flag is expecting everyone to believe that he or a Bama player thought he was signaling for a fair catch for our guys standing back on the goal line. If the SEC office doesn't address this, then we know it's more than just some crooked officials.
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The old ”Letter” of the Law instead of “Spirit” otherwise known as common sense if it benefits Bama. Had it been the other way it would have been the Satan Spirit of the Law.
 
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volfan_28 said:
It shows clear and blatant favoritism by the referees, but at the end of the day is something that we must overcome. Not just against Bama, but also UGA - or whoever the frontrunners for the CFP are on any given Saturday. It seems the best way to change the narrative is to become the frontrunner, like we were last year. Until then, it is what it is and it's just a challenge we'll have to overcome.
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Exactly, and this is just another reason why the UF loss was so bad. If we went into Tuscaloosa undefeated then the calls would have been more balanced.
 
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I still don't understand why the ball wasn't placed on the 25. All balls caught inside the 25 are supposed to come out to the 25 if a fair catch happens.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
I still don't understand why the ball wasn't placed on the 25. All balls caught inside the 25 are supposed to come out to the 25 if a fair catch happens.
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B/c the person who called for the fair catch didn’t catch the ball. The rule is supposed to be used when a team has 2 returners and one pretends to call a fair catch to slow the gunners down even tho the ball is going to be caught and run back by the other returner. The official that threw the flag knew exactly what he was doing, using a rule as it wasn’t intended to hurt the Vols.
 
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The spots were criminal, blatantly bad and all went against Tennessee. The play that gave Alabama 1 second for another play was horse puckey, especially after we'd ran out of bounds literally 30 seconds before that and the referee wound the clock. On that Bama play they both called forward progress for the spot, but gave him the out of bounds clock stoppage that happened two yards behind the forward progress mark.

Alabama held, blatantly and obviously in play altering fashion with no calls while Tennessee was on defense. They got away with pass interference several times. Jersey stretching offenses, and arm wrapping instances that are normally immediately called.

They were 95th in the nation in penalties and somehow played a flawless game. The only call made saved them from a sack and possibly a sack/fumble.

Heupel can't publicly say anything or he'd get fined. Does the SEC still issue reports on missed/bad calls? Does anyone else in the SEC have more game changing calls go against them? Ole Miss touchdown off the board when we clearly and legally scored under every rule of football. Ball clearly over the line on replay in the bowl game. It just goes on and on.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
It still boggles my mind that we don't try it. Hurts is small. We have a 6'5" tower for a QB. You would think on 3rd or 4th and short, it would be neigh impossible for a man the size of Joe Milton to not successfully run "the tush push". Us electing to not run it and rarely ever lining up behind center on short yardage plays is one of the more frustrating things about Heupel.
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Daniel Jones is as big as Joe Milton and faster, but didn't do so well when the Giants tried the tush push. It has a lot to do with how well the line is playing. Our line is doing okay (way better than the Giants) but they're definitely nothing like the Eagles at pushing an entire defense.
 
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I remember seeing an interview with Evan Turner and Gilbert Arenas talking about the difficulty of closing out game 7s....Gilbert "said" that You had better be up by 15 so the whistles don't come into play. The "implication" being that the results are money driven, and the winner will be determined based on such, and it really got Me thinking about this game. Tennessee was knocking down 3s in the first half, so it took the whistles out of the game. When they pulled to within a score in the second half, they seemed to get 20/20 vision with respect to Tennessee, not so much the other way. I get that it looks different in real time, but if they were able to catch the phantom fair catch, or Gabe Judy pinching #3's jersey for a split second, but not the chokehold put on Tyler....or the other penalties I saw every time they cut to break ?!....it just seems off.
 
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VolDaddy61 said:
I remember seeing an interview with Evan Turner and Gilbert Arenas talking about the difficulty of closing out game 7s....Gilbert "said" that You had better be up by 15 so the whistles don't come into play. The "implication" being that the results are money driven, and the winner will be determined based on such, and it really got Me thinking about this game. Tennessee was knocking down 3s in the first half, so it took the whistles out of the game. When they pulled to within a score in the second half, they seemed to get 20/20 vision with respect to Tennessee, not so much the other way. I get that it looks different in real time, but if they were able to catch the phantom fair catch, or Gabe Judy pinching #3's jersey for a split second, but not the chokehold put on Tyler....or the other penalties I saw every time they cut to break ?!....it just seems off.
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If we score touchdowns and not field goals in the first half, we win. Getting field goals on two straight possessions inside the Alabama 10 killed us. Only getting 3 after the James Pearce strip sack inside the Alabama 20 was just a killer. If you go up 21-0 instead of 13-0 it’s game over IMO.

We have been a very poor RedZone team this year and we paid the price for it.
 
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SteensVol said:
(1) Tell me someone - how does a ref see a guy in the front line raise his hand pointing which side ball is coming to and then miss an arm around the choke hold of the defensive end 2 yards away from the quarterback?
(2) How does our corner get a holding call on a ten yard out when he just reached up and touched reciever cutting in front of him, while two blatant holds with arm wrapped arounf the reciever in the end zone not justify a pass interference?
Please tell me how this is possible? It is very suspect!
The first half also was giving a field goal and negating a touchdown. Not just second half. We did some things wrong for sure. But definitely there were many critical no calls and questionable calls in this game. We were actually good enough to override them for a while, but not good enough in 2nd half. But here’s the thing we shouldn’t have to be that much better just to win a road game vs alabama, just some better - and actually we are and I will know that to the day I die and they can’t take that away from me! No matter how loud they yelled they beat the hell out of tennessee - I know there were bad calls intentional or bias or whatever that changed that game significantly and put us in deep holes and let them out of holes to score!
Go vols! Reset and kick that kentuck a$$!
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I didn't see another angle but it looked very uncatchable. Not to mention even Gary said "he'd like to have that one back".
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
If we score touchdowns and not field goals in the first half, we win. Getting field goals on two straight possessions inside the Alabama 10 killed us. Only getting 3 after the James Pearce strip sack inside the Alabama 20 was just a killer. If you go up 21-0 instead of 13-0 it’s game over IMO.

We have been a very poor RedZone team this year and we paid the price for it.
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If they get TDs instead of FGs it's 34-28.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
If we score touchdowns and not field goals in the first half, we win. Getting field goals on two straight possessions inside the Alabama 10 killed us. Only getting 3 after the James Pearce strip sack inside the Alabama 20 was just a killer. If you go up 21-0 instead of 13-0 it’s game over IMO.

We have been a very poor RedZone team this year and we paid the price for it.
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(2) touchdowns had blatant wrap around holds on Alabama. The tape don’t lie man!
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
If we score touchdowns and not field goals in the first half, we win. Getting field goals on two straight possessions inside the Alabama 10 killed us. Only getting 3 after the James Pearce strip sack inside the Alabama 20 was just a killer. If you go up 21-0 instead of 13-0 it’s game over IMO.

We have been a very poor RedZone team this year and we paid the price for it.
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I won't disagree with that at all.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
What do you honestly expect him to say? His answer after the game on Saturday is the best you are going to get. Spending an entire press conference complaining about the officials will not help us. We'll just look like sore losers. The HC should spend time focusing on the next game. Let the AD and the media worry about applying pressure on the officiating.
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If I was a reporter in that room, I would have asked Coach Heup two questions:

1. Will you have a call with the SEC head of officials this week?
2. What's the over/under on the number of four letter words in that conversation?

And maybe a 3rd... what do you expect the over/under to be on the number of penalties called on bama in this week's LSU @ bama game?
 
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Voltopia said:
Yeah, considering that all Heupel would accomplish by complaining about the refs is (1) more scrutiny and punishment from the SEC officiating crews and (2) possible steps taken by the SEC to fine and/or punish either Heupel or Tennessee, I don't know what anyone could expect from a question like that. I'd imagine it was made known to the reporterss there that asking questions like that wasn't going to help anything - or be appreciated - or else someone would have asked.

The schools have a lot of leeway, but the conferences hold the TV contract purse - and the rulebook. There's only so much you can get away with before they will put their foot down, and that goes for any school at any of the big conferences.
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I didn't say any of that. I said the media didn't ask him. Calm down Nancy
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
Tush-push? Really?
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Was gonna post the clip (from "Blazing Saddles")... but glad I played it first. Oooops! I'd forgotten! Guess we can't do that anymore without endangering Freak's pristine standing in the world wide web.

But for anyone who won't be offended by some raw, politically incorrect language from the '70s, you can search it. The number is called "Doing the French Mistake."

[No humans were harmed in the filming of this movie.]
 
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