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To: Dysart
It was not bad one call, but three bad calls during Florida's final two drives. Everyone has seen games where one bad call seemed to decide the outcome late in a game, but this game had THREE bad calls in Florida's favor in final six to eight minutes.

This crew well deserved to be removed from officiating, for good.

And any Florida fans or otherwise still pretending that the officiating wasn't grossly unfair to Arkansas, well, I expect you've got other problems of acknowledging reality other than in sports competitions.

20 posted on 10/21/2009 4:47:09 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

The officiating was very one-sided in this game, no question. The final box score shows 10 penalties for 92 yards against Arkansas while Florida was only flagged three times for 16 yards. Considering that it wound up being a 3 point game, those calls you mentioned most definitely influenced the outcome the game and helped Florida win. It was a shameful display and I say that as someone who wanted Florida to win the game. Kudos to the SEC for calling this crew out and putting the rest of their officiating crews on notice.


24 posted on 10/21/2009 4:54:35 PM PDT by zebrahead
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To: Will88

Arkansas was shafted throughout the game—not just the end. Our QB was speared in the back after he was down—no call. Tebow apparently is exempt from the no-celebration rule. Actually, the whole team is. After a long pass which FL intercepted, 3 FL players converged in the end-zone, did an obviously choreographed and practiced dance, and there was—surprise, surprise, NO CALL again.

And in the Mississippie State/Florida game this past weekend, a FL player intercepted a pass, was running into the end zone, but a couple of yards before he got there he started doing a high-stepping-taunting dance, the ball was knocked free at the 1 yd line having never “crossed the plane” of the goal line, and it was recovered in the end-zone by Miss.State. Miss.St. should’ve had the ball 1st and 10 on the 35 [due to the illegal celebration] and the score 16-13. Instead, Florida was given a touchdown, so now the score was 22-13 [the missed the PAT]. The momentum of the entire game was changed by the phantom touchdown.


56 posted on 10/26/2009 6:43:05 AM PDT by razorbak
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