Most penalized teams in the SEC

[VolForLife83]

Florida: 32 yards per game
LSU: 33.3 yards per game
Vanderbilt: 41 yards per game (4 games)
Georgia: 42.3 yards per game
Auburn: 47 yards per game
Alabama: 48 yards per game
Mississippi State: 48.7 yards per game
Missouri: 48.7 yards per game
Ole Miss: 52 yards per game
Kentucky: 55.3 yards per game
South Carolina: 56 yards per game
Texas A&M: 64.3 yards per game
Tennessee: 67.3 yards per game
Arkansas: 81.7 yards per game


And flags thrown per game per team on average so far:

LSU: 3.3
Vanderbilt: 4.5
Georgia: 4.7
Mississippi State: 4.7
Auburn: 5.3
Alabama: 5.7
Ole Miss: 5.7
Florida: 6
Missouri: 6
Kentucky: 7.3
Texas A&M: 8
Tennessee: 8
South Carolina: 8.3
Arkansas: 8.3

The most penalized teams in the SEC ranked through Week 3

Ranking the most penalized teams in the SEC through Week 3.

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[madbamahater]

Inexcusable and cost them the UF game

 

[sechamp2012]

This is and was one of our top problems and we have a Senior laden team.

 

[VolBricks]

Dang we can’t be #1 at anything.

 

[Special Ed]

The Rock (Top) Horror Picture Show

 

[Volhoops]

Do you think if they called holding on Florida in the swamp, Florida's average might go up considerably ?

 

[lifeisdeep]

Florida: 32 yards per game
LSU: 33.3 yards per game
Vanderbilt: 41 yards per game (4 games)
Georgia: 42.3 yards per game
Auburn: 47 yards per game
Alabama: 48 yards per game
Mississippi State: 48.7 yards per game
Missouri: 48.7 yards per game
Ole Miss: 52 yards per game
Kentucky: 55.3 yards per game
South Carolina: 56 yards per game
Texas A&M: 64.3 yards per game
Tennessee: 67.3 yards per game
Arkansas: 81.7 yards per game


And flags thrown per game per team on average so far:

LSU: 3.3
Vanderbilt: 4.5
Georgia: 4.7
Mississippi State: 4.7
Auburn: 5.3
Alabama: 5.7
Ole Miss: 5.7
Florida: 6
Missouri: 6
Kentucky: 7.3
Texas A&M: 8
Tennessee: 8
South Carolina: 8.3
Arkansas: 8.3

The most penalized teams in the SEC ranked through Week 3

Ranking the most penalized teams in the SEC through Week 3.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

No excuse for that. 100% on our high-paid coaches.

 

[loosecannon]

Do you think if they called holding on Florida in the swamp, Florida's average might go up considerably ?

After watching the replay, it was worse than I thought. Their RT was constantly holding, and nobody watched it. That is with the QB rolling same side, the white hat missed a ton on holds. Some were full tackles that were on third down and would have gotten us off the field in the first half. The replay they kept showing of the third down passes where Mertz escapes were both egregious holds and the play is only not a sack because of the holds. It was pathetic.

 

[dovervolz]

Florida: 32 yards per game
LSU: 33.3 yards per game
Vanderbilt: 41 yards per game (4 games)
Georgia: 42.3 yards per game
Auburn: 47 yards per game
Alabama: 48 yards per game
Mississippi State: 48.7 yards per game
Missouri: 48.7 yards per game
Ole Miss: 52 yards per game
Kentucky: 55.3 yards per game
South Carolina: 56 yards per game
Texas A&M: 64.3 yards per game
Tennessee: 67.3 yards per game
Arkansas: 81.7 yards per game


And flags thrown per game per team on average so far:

LSU: 3.3
Vanderbilt: 4.5
Georgia: 4.7
Mississippi State: 4.7
Auburn: 5.3
Alabama: 5.7
Ole Miss: 5.7
Florida: 6
Missouri: 6
Kentucky: 7.3
Texas A&M: 8
Tennessee: 8
South Carolina: 8.3
Arkansas: 8.3

The most penalized teams in the SEC ranked through Week 3

Ranking the most penalized teams in the SEC through Week 3.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Most of UT's are false starts.

 

[OrangeVolMan]

No excuse for that. 100% on our high-paid coaches.

Coaches can coach but they dont commit the penalties. It’s on the players. If a player moves before the snap its on the player. If a OLine grabs a jersey of the Dline its on the player.

 

[Voltopia]

This shouldn't be a big mysterious surprise to anyone. Heupel's UCF teams were also some of the most penalized teams in college football each of the three years he was the coach there. Near the bottom of the list each season. Or the top? I don't know. Depends on how you look at the list, I guess.

I think some of the penalties have to do with running that hyper up-tempo offense. I'm not excusing it or rationalizing it, I just think it's a byproduct of that system and that incredibly fast "attack attack attack" mentality. When you're dropping dimes and pushing teams on their heels, I think the penalties are just the price of admission, but when the offense is struggling, it exposes the flags for what they are - incredibly troublesome.

 

[McDad]

Butch had some low penalized teams.

None of us give a rat's rear about penalties if we're winning.

 

[AstonRoyal]

I thought I read somewhere that Heupel’s team were always highly penalized. I also heard last year we led the sec in penalties.

 

[C-south]

At this point we have to realize that all the false starts can’t be fixed. It’s impossible.

 

[lifeisdeep]

Coaches can coach but they dont commit the penalties. It’s on the players. If a player moves before the snap its on the player. If a OLine grabs a jersey of the Dline its on the player.

By that logic there’s no point in having coaches. If the coaches can’t impact what the players do in a game with what is worked on in practice, then there never would have been a college football coach make a million dollars in a season. But they can and do impact that, which is why some make big money for making a big impact. Did you notice that the teams that win the most also were among the least-penalized? It’s not coincidence.

 

[lifeisdeep]

I thought I read somewhere that Heupel’s team were always highly penalized. I also heard last year we led the sec in penalties.

We did, and there’s no excuse for that.

 

[tn4elvis]

This is and was one of our top problems and we have a Senior laden team.

I really believe our kids are good kids. They just are not really smart

 

[bpalmer28]

No excuse for that. 100% on our high-paid coaches.

No it’s not. Most of it is on them but you can’t force refs to do their job, which they did not in Gainesville

 

[MAUSERWERKE]

Out of all of TN's penalties, I expect by far the most were called at Gainesville. Does anyone have that breakdown?

The Swamp is a very difficult environment, super loud and lends itself to pre-snap penalties.

That said, you have to nut up and be able to play in hostile environments without crapping the bed. The Vols failed that test miserably at Florida, and seem to have a talent for doing that.

 

[dobre_shunka]

Do you think if they called holding on Florida in the swamp, Florida's average might go up considerably ?

By my count, UF had zero penalties called in the 2nd half

 

[zeppelin128]

vs. VA. 4 - 35 yards
vs. Peay 10 - 88 yards
vs. Lizahds 10 - 79 yards

 

[VFL 89]

WOW! We got to clean that stuff up!!!

 

[lifeisdeep]

No it’s not. Most of it is on them but you can’t force refs to do their job, which they did not in Gainesville

I agree 100% that the refs not only did not do their job, but were wildly corrupt. That still doesn't excuse all the false starts, or jumping offsides when everyone in America knew that's what UF was trying to have happen. That's just poor discipline, and that falls on the coaches not drilling it into the players.

 

[bpalmer28]

I agree 100% that the refs not only did not do their job, but were wildly corrupt. That still doesn't excuse all the false starts, or jumping offsides when everyone in America knew that's what UF was trying to have happen. That's just poor discipline, and that falls on the coaches not drilling it into the players.

That is fair. Also, I think holding penalties are part of the risk you accept when committing to a game plan based on WR screens. Show me a WR who holds his block against an SEC DB in space and I’ll show you a holding violation.

 

[lifeisdeep]

That is fair. Also, I think holding penalties are part of the risk you accept when committing to a game plan based on WR screens

If they had just called holding on UF every time they did it, we would have won, even with our crappy play.