Gurley 1.5 yrds short on 3rd down

[Boca Vol]

I just went back and watched the replay of the game. This was atrocious on many, many levels.

1st of all the side judge wasn't keeping up with the play, he was several yards behind it. Gurley's knee touched on the 30 and the ball was at the 29 or 28.5 yard line. If that wasn't bad enough there was a mountain of time to correct this error!

1st, you had the penalty on UGA which took time to sort out. Then you had UGA run the play clock all the way down. 3rd, UGA took a TO.

I'm not saying UT would have tied the game because there were only 40 seconds left but that simply can't happen in today's world with the review procedures in place.

 

[American Pig]

I'm interested to hear your conclusion. It was an atrocious spot.

I watched the replay last night before seeing this thread. I was astounded!

Gurley was down solid at the thirty and they spotted the ball at the twenty six, making 'fourth and seven' into 'fourth and three'. They went for it and barely converted by a half yard. I didn't understand why nobody challenged the spot. It was ridiculous.

 

[emzeeee]

I watched the replay last night before seeing this thread. I was astounded!

Gurley was down solid at the thirty and they spotted the ball at the twenty six, making 'fourth and seven' into 'fourth and three'. They went for it and barely converted by a half yard. I didn't understand why nobody challenged the spot. It was ridiculous.

Pretty sure you can only challenge a ball's spot when it's in relation to the goal line or the line of gain. Since they didn't get the 1st down on this one, I don't think they could do anything about it. Even though it had a direct impact on the first down the next play.

 

[wmcovol]

Vandy fans have long cried that they get hosed by SEC officials because they are expected to lose. SInce Tennessee has been down for 5 yrs now, I can see their point. SEC officials sure do favor the higher ranked team, no question.

How often does bama get bad calls? Not very, if any. They usually are recieving the benefit of the call or it goes unnoticed....

 

[Boca Vol]

Pretty sure you can only challenge a ball's spot when it's in relation to the goal line or the line of gain. Since they didn't get the 1st down on this one, I don't think they could do anything about it. Even though it had a direct impact on the first down the next play.

UT was out of TO's so they couldn't challenge, so you're correct on that. However, EVERY play gets reviewed and there was ample time to correct this error.

 

[shoney]

UT was out of TO's so they couldn't challenge, so you're correct on that. However, EVERY play gets reviewed and there was ample time to correct this error.

Yes, it makes it even a worse call considering the replay guy could have corrected it. I don't think it cost us the game, but the SEC should be embarrassed at how bad that spot was, it's just pure incompetence.

 

[GAVol]

I watched the replay last night before seeing this thread. I was astounded!

Gurley was down solid at the thirty and they spotted the ball at the twenty six, making 'fourth and seven' into 'fourth and three'. They went for it and barely converted by a half yard. I didn't understand why nobody challenged the spot. It was ridiculous.

We were out of timeouts, so any review had to be initiated by the booth. What blows my mind is how few of us even noticed such an egregious mistake. I was actually sitting on that side at the 25 yard line and it never occurred to me that anything squirrely had happened with the spot. There's no way the Tennessee coaches would've been able to see how bad the spot was unless a coach up in the booth just happened to see it.