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Nick Saban Calls for Consistency in Officiating
Bama Central on FanNation ^ | Oct 17, 2022 | Katie Windham

Posted on 10/17/2022 5:21:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

A pass interference call wiped out a crucial interception for the Crimson Tide in the loss at Tennessee.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama has officially been penalized more than any other team in the country.

After the Crimson Tide got called for a program-record 17 penalties Saturday against Tennessee, it's no surprise that penalties were a major theme of Nick Saban's Monday press conference.

Whether it be pass interference, which wiped out a game-sealing interception for the second week in a row, or pre-snap infractions, or special teams penalties that negated big gains, Saban is frustrated with it all.

Depending on the type of infraction, whether or not to throw a flag is a judgement call by the officials in college football, which Saban understands, but the main thing he's asking for his consistency among the officials, particularly when it comes to pass interference.

"Look, my big thing is just consistency," Saban said when asked if he thought pass intereference should be reviewable. "Just call it the same for everybody. And it’s hard to define exactly what you can and can’t do. I would rather see that happen. In the NFL, they defined exactly what you can and can’t do and it’s a really, really difficult judgement call, but you knew exactly what you could and couldn’t do. I think that would be beneficial."

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To: IrishBrigade

Sour grapes.


81 posted on 10/18/2022 8:48:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Sour grapes oranges."

Fixed it for you.

82 posted on 10/18/2022 1:00:23 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

LOL!


83 posted on 10/18/2022 2:22:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What matters most is that the same level of enforcement of the rules applies to both teams. You don’t flag one team for something you’ve let slide for the other.


84 posted on 10/20/2022 2:15:05 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Whatever - in the moment it was the right call, regardless of what you think was or wasn’t called before or after.


85 posted on 10/22/2022 5:38:12 PM PDT by proud_dad_of_two (Formerly MikefromOhio (I couldn't remember my password and lost the email account too!))
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