Heupel has to speak out

[orangerush]

I rarely see Heupel or any coach show emotion.

 

[AthensVol2007]

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Knee down before the hit.

And OT has 300lbs of momentum already going I’m sure he can stop on a dime. And that shadow appears his knee isn’t down. The replay shows the contact was very weak it wasn’t even the ferocity it initially appeared. Stand on your moral high horse that’s fine. They took a chance trying to run the clock out instead of just taking a knee under center, so we played the same way.

 

[Memvol44]

But it's EVERY game . When has a loss not been blamed on the refs? It just gets tiring. Half of the things people complain about are bad calls. But the other half are just people with zero understanding about football crying. For instance, people were crying that the refs blew the offsides call dead when the player didn't have a free run at Milton. The announcer mentioned it. What anyone with football understanding knows is that when their DE jumped offsides and OUR PLAYER MOVES AND TOUCHES HIM, refs must blow the play dead and penalize the defense. Its just nonstop on here.

If it's so tiring. Don't read it....easy enough..

 

[ftsandersvol]

State-endorsed gambling and NIL will be the death of college football as we know it.

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

Okay so he has to have unrealistic human reaction time. UFs QBs fault for dancing around instead of taking a knee right away lol

So first it's 'his knee wasn't down.' to 'It's too difficult for our guys to not hit a guy kneeling on the ground'?

 

[AthensVol2007]

We were down by 2 scores, with time to run one or two plays, and we didn’t even have the ball. This is not at all the same situation.

So what’s classless about calling a TO? UF refused to take a knee they ran the ball repeatedly, so if they’re gonna play like it’s not over so will we.

 

[rocketskates]

My thoughts exactly - the timeout was to force a punt and maybe get a block or bad snap not to get a shot at the QB. Seems a little unnecessary down two scores but sort of defensible.

You play to the final whistle. Was that Heupel’s way of being petty to the refs? Who knows. I’m sure he was just as pissed as we were. At the end of the day he’s human. Napier should’ve just punted and not put his qb in that position. But he beat our ass so there’s no use replaying it now.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Players do what their coaches teach them. That's the standard we have for other teams, right? Can't be hypocritical.

Said it about APU last week, applies this week to us as well. Just undisciplined across the board.

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

If it's so tiring. Don't read it....easy enough..

It's really hard to avoid. People are still on here complaining about Purdue. Victim mentality. It's soft.

 

[benholt06]

Omari Thomas is the one who showed poor sportsmanship.

How? Instead of kneeing he danced around and then their whole sideline acts indignant when he gets the softest shove in football history.

 

[rocketskates]

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Knee down before the hit.

bang-bang play. Not saying it was right, but you just punt the freaking ball and don’t even put your qb in that situation.

 

[CAVPUT]

Do you even read this board? Every game is the worst officiated game in the history of sports. It's like copy and paste on this board. 'Th3 rEfs HatE Us!!!

Was thinking exactly the same thing. Don't forget that all the other teams on the schedule are hot garbage, we have an unstoppable offense and our defensive front 7 is impenetrable. We're gonna beat everyone by fiddy as the refrain goes.

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

bang-bang play. Not saying it was right, but you just punt the freaking ball and don’t even put your qb in that situation.

Or, don't hit a guy kneeling down. Not real difficult.

 

[DrTNT]

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Knee down before the hit.

That went down right before Omari got there, if it had been down for 2 or 3 seconds ok, I would agree with you, but fact it is it was a split second so no, I don’t blame Omari one bit for hitting him.

 

[CAVPUT]

Heupel owes every fan in this program an explanation for all this unexcusable play calling!!!

The explanation is that we are limited by the abilities of the players on offense. Specifically the QB and OL. We just aren't capable of executing certain aspects of our offense right now.

 

[Memvol44]

It's really hard to avoid. People are still on here complaining about Purdue. Victim mentality. It's soft.

Your creating your own "problem" ...once again, just keep scrolling....

 

[rocketskates]

Or, don't hit a guy kneeling down. Not real difficult.

Or don’t risk your already injured qb by telling him to dance around for 9 seconds. Also not real difficult. In the end there’s no point in arguing about it as it didn’t affect the score. But it just goes to show that Napier is a dummy which makes it even worse that he kicked our ass tonight.

 

[BreatheUT]

On the officiating tonight. I can’t think of one game in his tenure where there has been such questionable officiating calls at pivotal points in the game than there was tonight.

Take the fine and call this stuff out. Maybe it’s less money fined if he acknowledges we are idiots for giving up a first down jumping offsides on an obvious 4th down fake….

* the blindside hit penalty (stops a 1st down drving deep in Florida territory)

* pass interference in the end zone late in the 4th quarter. Should've been an automatic 1st down inside the 15.

* Sunbelt Billy allowed to substitute because the official kicked the football when we were ready to go. Allowed Florida to get fresh defenders in on 4th down.

*Questionable roughing call. Created Florida 1st down. More minutes to run down the clock. Got 3 points from it.

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

That went down right before Omari got there, if it had been down for 2 or 3 seconds ok, I would agree with you, but fact it is it was a split second so no, I don’t blame Omari one bit for hitting him.

Watch any qb slide while running and let me know when the standard not to hit him is 2 to 3 seconds.

 

[BreatheUT]

On the officiating tonight. I can’t think of one game in his tenure where there has been such questionable officiating calls at pivotal points in the game than there was tonight.

Take the fine and call this stuff out. Maybe it’s less money fined if he acknowledges we are idiots for giving up a first down jumping offsides on an obvious 4th down fake….

The tape will go to the SEC office but that's not good enough. I would say something publicly.

 

[Orange.]

Lol. Bless your heart.

Everyone ignored that troll on the spot, right? He's talking to himself henceforth.

 

[All Vol!]

You mean he played to the whistle?

I’d say you’re working pretty hard to try and justify what was obviously a cheap and dangerous shot. As far as “playing to the whistle,” there was a flag thrown, presumably for a reason. I think they took no action because the game was over, there was nothing to enforce, so it was beyond the scope of in-game officiating to do anything about it. Of course it should be addressed at the appropriate level, starting with Coach Heupel. From what I saw, it was a deliberate and violent act, wholly unnecessary, and the epitome of poor sportsmanship. I’d be ashamed as a Tennessee fan if he isn’t appropriately disciplined. This is the kind of thing most of us teach our youth athletes from day 1 never to do and for good reason.

 

[All Vol!]

Oh piss off. This ain’t pee wee. Stuff like this is killing college football

Wrong. “Fans” like you are. Grow up and stop defending pathetic sportsmanship.

 

[UTK]

Wrong. “Fans” like you are. Grow up and stop defending pathetic sportsmanship.

Oh no, do you wanna make the pull a card? this is sec football. You don’t like the other team. Period. You grow up and get out of your pre K teacher mindset lmaooo

 

[Namorto1]

I would rather Heupel speak out publicly about players unwilling to tackle and unwilling to block.