Originally posted by jet11:
Please tell me you are joking. The referee had an obligation to call that foul on both the instigator and the retaliator, or neither (He saw them both).
Nope. Most replays have only shown the last two blows and did not include the sound of the whistle.
On the one occasion I saw the whole sequence, those two guys had been jousting that way during the whole play. We used to call it chicken fighting. Wade's last shove was just after the whistle and could have been considered a continuation of the play. The response was clearly after the play was over and was much more severe.
The official discerned the difference between a little tap and a round house right that turned the guys head around.
There is plenty of room to disagree with his judgment... but like I said, this was nowhere near as egregious as the non-catch of 2000.
Also, don't forget about the failure to restart the clock after the personal foul that gave UT about 25 more seconds than they would have had.
That was a bad call. But bad/missed calls are part of the game. I saw UF players throwing chop blocks that weren't called on several of their better running plays. Whether its coaching or officiating, UF gets away with more holding than any other team in the SEC.
Oh, and by the way, the SEC officials are being punished for those blunders as they should be.
The clock thing? Yes. The punch thing? No.
The failure to start the clock was due to a failure to know or apply the rules.
Who was at fault and at what point a personal foul is warranted is always a subjective judgment call. You cannot punish the official for that unless there was no difference in the severity of the acts, both acts were clearly after the end of the play, or it can be proven that the official did it intentionally to hurt UF.
You were owed a call. What ever happened to earning a win.
Statistically it was an even game. They scored an equal number of TD's. UT was snake bitten by a fluke extra point miss (the only miss of Wilhoit's career at UT). They got it back on a fluke official's mistake, two terrific plays, and a great kick under enormous pressure.
BTW, UF wasn't beaten by the officials. UT still needed 25 yards to get to the 35. Their defense had an opportunity to stop them... and frankly should have. If you want to be upset with someone then start with the UF defense and coaches. They couldn't stop a true freshman from managing a 25 yard drive in something less than 30 seconds without timeouts.
Are you going to support a bad call that goes against UT in next years Florida game, because it is Florida's turn to receive a make-up call? Come on.
I don't think the officials made the call to "make-up". I think one was a judgment call that I would agree with
. The other was a mistake. I would like to see a perfectly officiated game... but I am not delusional. If this rivalry stays as closely matched as it is now (which is no guarantee with Zook in command), I expect that there will be another game changing bad call that goes against UT.
The SEC officials are the worst officials in the country bar none.
Not really. The Big 12 is pretty bad and the ACC is probably the worst... only to get that much worse with Miami in the league. I don't have a dog in their fight but they seem to be easily star struck.
The worst officiating in the SEC came during the "Ol' Ball Coach's" reign. He intimidated all of them for some reason.
You guys won the game, but at least admit the win was tainted by the TWO horrendous calls.
If it had been the other way around, I could have argued about missed holding calls that allowed Leak time to pass, about a fluke extra point miss, about chop blocks that kept UF drives going, etc.
Officials make mistakes. Sometimes they are apparent. Sometimes they are transparent. The ones we don't see are every bit as costly as the ones we do see.
The win is no more tainted than any other that is partially shaped by bad calls.
