Kiffin fined

[OrangeVolMan]

So the SEC acknowledges they messed up and to fix it they fine Kiffin for talking about it. How about fining the official(s) who messed up and making that fine public, like they did Kiffin’s fine.
The SEC rule says Kiffin can’t talk about officiating or what the SEC told him on the phone. However, they can make public the fine assessed against him. Talk about a double standard. I’m also sure it’s against their policy to make public if the official(s) suffer any action because of an error. Again, a double standard.

 

[bamawriter]

At least Kiffin refused to just sit back and take it.

 

[USMC-TNVOL]

Like Josh Pate said on Late Kick, if your conference is set on being one of the best football conferences, then hire full time referees instead of these part time guys.

 

[TJVol95]

SEC refs suck every year!

 

[golfballs]

Kiffin should take it up with Saban, he runs the SEC

 

[UTK]

The ridiculous protection of the refs continue. If anyone should be fined it's the referees!! Why are they put on a pedestal? SEC ref = easiest job in the country. You can woefully mess up and never have to worry about consequences lmao

 

[imw8n4u]

The ridiculous protection of the refs continue. If anyone should be fined it's the referees!! Why are they put on a pedestal? SEC ref = easiest job in the country. You can woefully mess up and never have to worry about consequences lmao

The referees did not mess this one up, at least not the ones on the field. The replay official is the one that should never be allowed to work a game ever again.

 

[UTK]

Like seriously. We're all humans. We make mistakes. Officiating is especially a job that requires a lot of judgement so there's more opportunities for mistakes. However, there's different kind of mistakes.

For example, you go to a fast food joint, order a chicken sandwich and ask for no tomato. You hate tomato so badly, that you can't simply just take it off and continue to eat the sandwich. The sandwich is tainted now, that evil red circle has touched your sandwich, it cannot be saved. You go up to the counter and ask for another one to be made, most likely the place will apologize for thier mistake, the manger will probably have a word with the employee that prepared the sandwich and tell him/her to be more careful. Fair enough. It's a small mistake and people make mistakes. Despite your severe hatred of tomato, you understand it's a personal thing and no real harm is done.

However, if you order your sandwich and you get the no tomato, you're happy and you take a big bite only to realize the chicken is raw....yeah that's not a small mistake. That's a drastic one that could get you sick, so this time you a bit pissed off this place would be so careless to serve you raw chicken. You go up there with a bit of attitude and demand your money back. Normally a place would apologize and give you a refund. Then the manger will go to the cook and there will be a more severe punishment than just a "word". That cook is probably getting fired to be blunt, but at the least wrote up with the next offense being an automatic termination. But if every job worked like the SEC with thier officials, instead of this happening, the manager would laugh in your face and scold you for even having the audacity to question their cook! HOW DARE YOU. Then he hands you a paper that says you have been fined 100 dollar for even daring to speak up. How. Dare. You.

 

[UTK]

The referees did not mess this one up, at least not the ones on the field. The replay official is the one that should never be allowed to work a game ever again.

When I say refs/officials it includes replay officials and on the field officials. They're both above judgment for some dumb reason. Needs to change.

 

[tnutater]

Wee Little Nicky is still pissed at Kiffy.
Told his boys at the SEC to put him on the list.

The bad call was no surprise. The repay official's defense was "Daddy told me to"

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Like Josh Pate said on Late Kick, if your conference is set on being one of the best football conferences, then hire full time referees instead of these part time guys.

I agree. These guys need not to be selling insurance or peddling Rodan and Fields during the week and then have a hand in deciding who plays for the national title. I think when the CBS deal expires and ESPN pays all that money to the conference Sankey and others need to strongly consider paying officials 6 figures to exclusively be officials. I don’t know if that would break any rules, but there needs to be some high level officiating in the P5 conferences.

 

[allvol123]

That missed call was atrocious.

 

[BUBear]

The ridiculous protection of the refs continue. If anyone should be fined it's the referees!! Why are they put on a pedestal? SEC ref = easiest job in the country. You can woefully mess up and never have to worry about consequences lmao

Sounds like every meteorologist in the Houston market. Have we discovered refs true day jobs?

 

[BUBear]

Like seriously. We're all humans. We make mistakes. Officiating is especially a job that requires a lot of judgement so there's more opportunities for mistakes. However, there's different kind of mistakes.

For example, you go to a fast food joint, order a chicken sandwich and ask for no tomato. You hate tomato so badly, that you can't simply just take it off and continue to eat the sandwich. The sandwich is tainted now, that evil red circle has touched your sandwich, it cannot be saved. You go up to the counter and ask for another one to be made, most likely the place will apologize for thier mistake, the manger will probably have a word with the employee that prepared the sandwich and tell him/her to be more careful. Fair enough. It's a small mistake and people make mistakes. Despite your severe hatred of tomato, you understand it's a personal thing and no real harm is done.

However, if you order your sandwich and you get the no tomato, you're happy and you take a big bite only to realize the chicken is raw....yeah that's not a small mistake. That's a drastic one that could get you sick, so this time you a bit pissed off this place would be so careless to serve you raw chicken. You go up there with a bit of attitude and demand your money back. Normally a place would apologize and give you a refund. Then the manger will go to the cook and there will be a more sever punishment than just a "word". That cook is probably getting fired to be blunt, but at the least wrote up with a next offense being an automatic termination. But if every job worked like the SEC with thier officials, instead of this happening, the manager would laugh in your face and scold you for even having the audacity to question their cook! HOW DARE YOU. Then he hands you a paper that says you have been fined 100 dollar for even daring to speak up. How. Dare. You.

So you are saying Kiffin/Ole Miss should report the SEC to the Health Department?

 

[rjd970]

It was an awful call. When even the replay officials who get to see it in slow motion miss it, something is rotten. Especially when they screw it up the week prior in favor of the same team.

The UT/Bama game last year still chaps my ***. Same goes for the Bama/MissSt game.

Get the front office out of Birmingham. It is past ridiculous at this point.

 

[BUBear]

Who do conference commissioners really report to?

 

[rjd970]

Who do conference commissioners really report to?

Don’t know if this is usual, but the visual is crazy.

 

[rjd970]

Georgia fans — and media — livid at SEC officials who called Alabama game | Sporting News

This sounds a lot like our Bama game last year. Don’t know if they would have won, but a fairly called game at critical swing moments that don’t obviously go Bama’s way would have been fun to watch.

 

[bamawriter]

Georgia fans — and media — livid at SEC officials who called Alabama game | Sporting News

This sounds a lot like our Bama game last year. Don’t know if they would have won, but a fairly called game at critical swing moments that don’t obviously go Bama’s way would have been fun to watch.

"Yeah, our DBs couldn't cover Bama's WRs and had to hold whenever possible. Yeah, UGA got called for PI or defensive holding 5 times, but that one particular PI cost us the game!"

 

[rjd970]

"Yeah, our DBs couldn't cover Bama's WRs and had to hold whenever possible. Yeah, UGA got called for PI of defensive holding 5 times, but that one particular PI cost us the game!"

Where does it say anywhere that one PI call cost them the game?

 

[bamawriter]

Where does it say anywhere that one PI call cost them the game?

The entire premise of the piece was that biased officiating affected the outcome of the (3 score) game, and that was the one call they to which they pointed.

 

[05_never_again]

Who do conference commissioners really report to?

The Presidents of the schools elect them, right?

 

[rjd970]

The entire premise of the piece was that biased officiating affected the outcome of the (3 score) game, and that was the one call they to which they pointed.

Lol no it wasn’t.

"Georgia may or may not be able to beat Alabama during a fairly called game. I would love to watch that game and find out," Coffey wrote.

It's impossible to know how those penalties and non-calls might have affected the game had they been reversed. Be that as it may, Georgia had plenty of opportunities to stop Alabama

The premise of the article is this is getting ridiculous.

Total numbers of penalties and yards don’t capture what is happening at critical points in the game and keeping drives going for Bama or ending them for the other teams. And same for Auburn for that matter.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

The ridiculous protection of the refs continue. If anyone should be fined it's the referees!! Why are they put on a pedestal? SEC ref = easiest job in the country. You can woefully mess up and never have to worry about consequences lmao

It's amazing to me how the best conference in sports can have such terrible officiating that never seems to improve. And I say this every year but as bad as the football officiating is, the basketball officiating is worse. Granted, there are technically no "SEC" officials in basketball but we see the same faces each year and the same idiots who never improve, and the SEC (and college basketball in general) does nothing about it. Same with football, nothing is ever done to make it better (at least that the public can see) and on top of that they are protected from almost all criticism and accountibility.

 

[bamawriter]

Lol no it wasn’t.





The premise of the article is this is getting ridiculous.

Total numbers of penalties and yards don’t capture what is happening at critical points in the game and keeping drives going for Bama or ending them for the other teams. And same for Auburn for that matter.

Bama has had two 3rd down conversions via penatly thru 5 games. That ties them for last in the conference. But please, tell me more about these drive extending penalties.