Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

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Tennessee Golfer said:
It’s past time for major athletics to hire full time officials. Pay them, train them, and hold them publicly accountable just like everyone else. With the rise in sports gambling the stakes are even higher. You have to do this to keep the games fair and being able to recruit new officials or all levels of the sport will suffer. There is plenty of money to get it done.
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This can't be said enough. Watching UT football alone this year would justify this. There are things that happened to us that continue to baffle me.

3 absurd things happened to Tennessee that changed the outcome of the game that will never happen again in college football.

1. The Pitt field goal return for a TD that got overturned AND gave Pitt the ball back to attempt a field goal again. ABSURD rule on all counts

2. Enter forward progress fiasco BS. Ole Miss QB clearly fumbles the ball while attempting trick play we pick it up and score. Called back because of Forward Progress which still makes 0 sense. Nobody can justify it.

3. And Last Night. Which stands to be the worst ruling and call in college football this year.

Any of these could be considered the most absurd ruling and/or call this season... All happened against one team... Us.

Let's not forget no team has endured more dirty play from fake injuries than us because of a lack of ruling against it. Tennessee is on the wrong side of poor officiating and ruling than any other team in college football and it's not close.


We would have 2 more wins under our belt if not for the officiating.
 
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Cheatham County Vol said:
Recruiting is going to have to hit another level as well. You’re not beating Alabama and Georgia if you’re not stacking top 5 classes on top of one another. You’re not going to out coach them, so your players better be just as good to have a chance. Going to be a lot of angry people around here when Georgia beats Alabama in a rematch. That machine in Athens will just be getting cranked.
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Just wondering if you have posted here before under another name....
 
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What is especially mind-boggling to me is that everyone seemed to think that a forward progress call was not reviewable (including the officiating crew on the field and in the booth last night), when it actually is very reviewable. It is called out as a reviewable play. How an entire officiating crew cannot know that is beyond comprehension.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
The reason we had players playing 100 snaps goes back to my original point, They couldn't get off the field. He seldom did anything accept rush 4 or 5. That allowed the secondary, that was probably the weakest position on the field to be exposed repeatedly. If you have a bad defense, you should try and do at least one thing well. You should rush the passer or be able to cover. We did neither. John Chavis, as his base defense said once that if you keep 5 into block, we're sending 6. If you keep 6 into block, we're sending 7. We're always going to send one more than you have to block. We should have always made the offense have to account for additional rushers. If we get burned for a long TD at least we didn't have to be on the field for a 10 min 20 play drive. I would have been fine if he'd have employed the bend but don't break philosophy and dialed some stuff up in the red zone but he played the same base defense almost the whole game. He did dial some stuff up at then end against KY and that is the sole reason we won the game.

Like I said, you are welcome to excuse him if you want, but I see no imagination at the DC spot.
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John Chavis also coached defenses full of nfl talent…. The only player we have even close to going in the top 7 rounds is Alontae Taylor….. it doesn’t matter if the play total was 100 or 60 snaps….. defensive lineman are not suppose to play every snap…. They are suppose to be rotated to keep them fresh…. I feel we played above our talent level for this season…. I don’t know what to expect from him going forward but it’s too soon to judge.
 
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drvenner said:
What is especially mind-boggling to me is that everyone seemed to think that a forward progress call was not reviewable (including the officiating crew on the field and in the booth last night), when it actually is very reviewable. It is called out as a reviewable play. How an entire officiating crew cannot know that is beyond comprehension.
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What's even more infuriating is that they still "review" the call in a guise to make you think the integrity of the game is being upheld all while knowing they won't/can't change the call. This very act undermines the integrity it claims to protect. This is dishonest and deceptive.

With that in mind, how are we supposed to trust an officiating crew who does this?
 
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volinbama256 said:
Crappy play calling and pathetic defense yesterday... too many bombs and not enough 10-15yd passes to move the ball but still eat up clock...
Still can't figure out what happened on defense and why we were constantly out of position in the secondary and clueless in other setups...
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This!!! This is why we lost the game. Officiating was bad but we lost that game.

And we could have still won the game on the final drive.

For whatever reason Hooker kept trying to throw a bomb. Throw the 5-15 yard passes and move down the field also considering we had all 3 timeouts.
 
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reVOLution33 said:
This!!! This is why we lost the game. Officiating was bad but we lost that game.

And we could have still won the game on the final drive.

For whatever reason Hooker kept trying to throw a bomb. Throw the 5-15 yard passes and move down the field also considering we had all 3 timeouts.
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Ya that was infuriating. A 40 yard field goal is much higher percentage than 50 yard bombs.
 
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