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Officiating Crew Suspended
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Crew removed from Oct. 31 gameComment Email Print Share Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Southeastern Conference has suspended officials from last weekend's Arkansas-Florida game after the crew was involved in its second controversial call of the year. Referee Marc Curles' crew called a personal foul on Arkansas defensive lineman Malcolm Sheppard in the fourth quarter as the Gators were rallying for a 23-20 victory. The league said there was no video evidence to support the call. The same group of officials called the LSU-Georgia game earlier this month, which included a late unsportsmanlike conduct penalty the league said shouldn't have been called. "A series of calls that have occurred during the last several weeks have not been to the standard that we expect from our officiating crews," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Wednesday. "I believe our officiating program is the best in the country. However, there are times when these actions must be taken." SEC associate commissioner Charles Bloom said this is the first time the league has publicly suspended a football crew like this. The SEC says the crew will be removed from its next scheduled assignment Oct. 31 and will not be assigned to officiate as a crew until Nov. 14. The league said the crew's bowl assignments could also be impacted. "The entire crew shoulders responsibility for each play. I have taken this action because there must be accountability in our officiating program," Slive said. "Our institutions expect the highest level of officiating in all of our sports and it is the duty of the conference office to uphold that expectation." Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said in a statement: "We took the appropriate steps to address any issues we had with the league regarding this matter earlier in the week. Our focus as a football team has been and remains on this weekend's game against Ole Miss." They were terrible! I believe they lost the game for Arkansas |
Good... they screwed the Hogs late in the 4th. Florida should have lost that game...
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Hunh. Who woulda thunk that? Officials want the 2 best teams in the SEC to win? :hmmm:
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Here is a video from a Gator fan having fun... some of those were BS.
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I want at least 2 of the top 3 teams to lose so Boise State can get into the National Championship game. They were robbed the year they beat Oklahoma.
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yea there were some baaaad calls on that drive that went floridas way.
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good god those were AWFUL calls.
The refs got paid off. That's the only way they could have really called that the way they did. |
Now if the Big 12 would address the Ref Crew from the OSU v MU game.
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Yeah, that was a pretty serious screw job. The Hogs shot themselves in the foot quite a few times as well, so official don't get all the blame. That being said, Florida shouldn't need any freaking help from the officials to win games.
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Mr. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, are you watching?
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with millions of dollars being gambled on these games and people with deep pockets wanting their team to win, you'd be very naive to think that refs don't get paid off.
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The Big 12 has proven consistently that they lack the balls for something like this. Worst leadership in the BCS. |
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Thu, Sep 03 Oregon Sat, Sep 12 Miami (OH) Fri, Sep 18 Fresno State * Sat, Sep 26 Bowling Green Sat, Oct 03 UC Davis Wed, Oct 14 Tulsa Sat, Oct 24 Hawai'i * Sat, Oct 31 San Jose State * Fri, Nov 06 Louisiana Tech * Sat, Nov 14 Idaho * Fri, Nov 20 Utah State Fri, Nov 27 Nevada Sat, Dec 05 New Mexico State |
[QUOTE=vailpass;6196507]Oh god please. That DII pretender should be banned from all televised games until they get a real football field. Please tell me how this schedule merits a BCS game let alone the NCS in any way, shape or form.
The same thing was said the year they beat OU! If you watch them they are a very good football team. |
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Its not enough, frankly. A conference's officials can pull all the stops to ensure that their teams with realistic BCS bowl chances get to those bowl games and only get a suspension to coverup the wrongdoing. Its bull.
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The refs made Arkansas miss 2 FGs.
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And now they've reprimanded Petrino for bitching about the shitty officiating crew that they have now suspended. Bunch of bullshit:
http://www.sportsdailyfix.com/ncaa/p...mments-ap.html |
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