Apparently, the SEC controversies are about to disappear.
We know all about how Patrick Peterson got one foot down and had an obvious pick called out because of some inexplicable reason. (Though you notice how all of the bad calls went against teams playing Florida or Alabama with one notable exception? Maybe Mike Silve is Gulf Coast for David Stern). But we have a situation where Florida and Alabama have two weak schedules finishing out.
Odds are that they will get a chance at a BCS Championship game. Neither team looks completely worthy. But hey? Free money.
Anyway…
Florida: I’m more angry at Alabama than I am with you, right now. Enjoy my benevolence.
Alabama: I have nothing nice to say to you. You’re a favored son and are playing UT-Chatanooga a week from Saturday. I am actively rooting for you to lose. LOSE! Have you lost yet? COME ON!
LSU: You know what’s the saddest thing of all? If you beat Florida, you would have had all these ridiculous calls go your way. Let that rock you to sleep, Les Miles.
Tennessee You look to be on a collision course with my local college football team in one of those brand name bowls in Florida that I’m never up for.
Auburn: They better overpay for Gus Malzahn to keep him around next year. Because he has this team at the very least frisky, and with two weeks to prepare for Alabama? The Rn Bowl is going to be delightfully messy.
Ole Miss: I cannot fake any enthusiasm for this team. You beat Northern Arizona. You get an internet cookie.
Georgia: Furman got 31 on Auburn. Maybe in the second half you can finally find your offense? Just in time for Kentucky! Whoo!
South Carolina: Who would have though this collapse is something related to a poor running game? I know I wouldn’t. They really need Mississippi State to not get bowl eligible to save their season.
Arkansas: There’s a shot at winning out for this team. I know it’s not much, but 7-4 going into LSU is something that you can call a success. Should have been 8-3, but it’s a new dawn and a new day going into 2010.
Kentucky: It doesn’t matter how ugly of a win this could be, you just have to win to get to bowl eligible. A 3-2 win is equal to bowl eligibility.
Mississippi State: Hopefully, you are prepared to be right screwerd again this week if Alabama pulls up and you make interesting. I mean it. You’re not going to win. Sorry about your luck.
Vanderbilt: You can murder the hopes and dreams of all seven UK faithful who aren’t busy riding John “Paul” Wall’s jock. That’s all the hope you’ve got left.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Andrew, this is a pitiful piece of journalism/bloggism. You are seriously going to fault the Tide for playing Chattanooga next week when most of the entire conference played cupcakes this week…Furman, Memphis, UL whatever, UK whatever. Give me a break. As far as the call in the Bama/LSU game, that you are crying like a 3rd grader about, show a little more class and give Bama their due on the defense they are playing. This team is a lot like the 92/93 championship team in that they have a slow offense and a smothering defense.
If you’re going to hold your breath and turn blue until Bama loses, just promise to hold up your end of the bargain.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I don’t believe I have ever seen such whining as I have this season.
The truth is, there are bad and questionable calls in every single game played, whether that game be Bama-LSU or FAU and Middle Tennessee State. They’re a part of the game and always have been.
Suggesting that there is some sort of conspiracy to make sure Alabama and Florida remain undefeated is moronic.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Al: Oh Al, you notice that I said nothing about the no-call when Terrence Cody did his best Dwayne Rudd impression as they escaped against team Kiffin.
And you know what? Even though have dropped and I will drop Saban as devil jokes like the History channel drops World War II programming? I have been appreciative when the team has crushed without needing a no-call or a bad call.
But I am a fair man. I’ll tell you this. I hate all cupcake scheduling. Beyond a win? There’s nothing good that comes by playing Georgia State or UT-Chattanooga. But even taking one strong non-conference game is becoming a lot for any college football team. Alabama may take a really bad game to balance? But they play a good one too.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Flor-I-Dan: Of course you’ll call me crazy for saying Conspiracy, your team is benefiting!
Okay, there’s a real difference between a holding no call on the opening drive between two Sun Belt teams and a 4th quarter botch in a battle for the SEC West. Or Dustin Doe getting a score on a play that should have been a touchback. Or a series of ridiculous calls that got your team a score back in the 4th quarter versus Arkansas. Or the aforementioned Terrence Cody no-call. Or LSU’s September benefeit from that ridiculous Unsportsmanlike conduct call. Or the two no-calls on Aaron Hernandez that allowed Florida to finally pull away from Vanderbilt.
Conspiracy may be the wrong word. But there’s a real star system like the NBA in the late 90′s developing here. And my frustration is showing.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I don’t think that’s the case, Dan.
For years SEC officiating has gone progressively from bad to worse, culminating in this year’s universally recognized debacle.
It’s not a conspiracy. It’s just bad officiating.
Did you watch the Ole Miss-LSU game from top to bottom? That had to be the worst display of officiating thus far this season, regardless of which team you pulled for.
The 17 second/Les Miles issue at the end of the game should’ve never happened. On the previous play after 3rd down (a completion, but a TFL nonetheless), the clock was stopped for no reason whatsoever. No time out was called. The ball stayed in bounds. No reason. In short, LSU got a 4th down chance it should have never received.
But even then, Les Miles stated he was calling time-out. For heaven’s sake, the refs should be looking for LSU to call time out at that point, but apparently weren’t paying attention.
So, regardless, the officiating stunk in that game. It is simply the culmination of years of SEC officiating getting worse and worse.