Watching some football...bad officiating not limited to Vols'games.

[Tenacjim]

I have often wondered if pass interference (or the lack of a call on a close play) should be reviewable. It seems these days there is just toooo much of this.

It really hurts big pass play teams (like TN was).

College is way more handsy than the pros. If they get away with it (and it’s 15 yards instead of a spot foul), they are going to do it until someone stops it.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

College is way more handsy than the pros. If they get away with it (and it’s 15 yards instead of a spot foul), they are going to do it until someone stops it.

I agree it should only be a 15 yard penalty, but they should be able to review them. Even more so in the pro’s where it is a spot foul, that for sure is too big a penalty not to be able to review. But I think it should be reviewable in college as well, it is just too game impacting to not be able to review. GBO

 

[BradstarVols]

They already pulled a third down stunt for GA like they did in our game. Florida ended up turning it over on downs.

I actually think they got the call right. He looked short to me. But yeah that 4th down play call was terrible and that swung the momentum of the game for sure.

 

[ButchPlz]

It's not just Vegas. Think about the TV network money in this stuff now. There is interest from ESPN, Fox, etc. to keep the "big names" at the front.

 

[lastlap]

Texas A&M with clear catch for a TD that was initially ruled incomplete. Replay looks to show good catch but after replay official inexplicable upholds incomplete call and A&M ends up settling for a FG.
In Oklahoma - Kansas game with Oklahoma down 14-0 officials help out the Sooners with a late hit OOB call that was weak to say the least and then ruled forward progress stopped on a fumble that led to a TD. Sratching my head how can they be so bad.

Bad officiating isn’t limited to football it’s all over including basketball, baseball, you name it. The sad part is they can’t get it right even when they go to the booth. I couldn’t do it myself and it’s a tough job no doubt but some of the calls or even worse no calls with an official staring right at the play eat their whistles. I don’t claim to know the answer but if I don’t do my job I won’t have that job long.

 

[Tenacjim]

Bad officiating isn’t limited to football it’s all over including basketball, baseball, you name it. The sad part is they can’t get it right even when they go to the booth. I couldn’t do it myself and it’s a tough job no doubt but some of the calls or even worse no calls with an official staring right at the play eat their whistles. I don’t claim to know the answer but if I don’t do my job I won’t have that job long.

It even made its way into my grandson’s soccer match yesterday. But that was 9 year olds and the ref was “maybe” 16? Still, he caught hell for two of his blown ”non calls” leading to goals.

 

[CAVPUT]

What makes me question motive is that they're calling some of the most ticky tack calls and digging deep into the rule book for some really unusual calls for the "fair catch" and completely botching the fundamental things like holding and pass interference. Hate to sound like an old guy here, but things like pass interference, fair catch and holding are not complicated and things just worked for such a long time. Now it's as if those things are ignored and in the case of the fair catch, they've over thought and over regulated it. When I try to think about how we ended up in this ridiculous state, the only thing I can think of is that they've decided to pick and choose what to flag/enforce based on how much they see it impacting the length of games. Someone somewhere likely came up with some sort of analytic highlighting calls as holding, PI, etc as the calls that slow the game down too much so they've eliminated everything except the most flagrant of calls....except when UT commits them. So I clearly think the pace of the game is one consideration, but I'm convinced that something else is at play in addition to the length of games. Something has led to a target being placed on our backs with the SEC officiating office. Or....with gambling now so mainstream, there's manipulation taking place in order to influence the lines. Hate being so tin hat, but you just don't see what we've seen for 2 straight weeks from the zebras. Something is amiss.