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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Sour grapes.
Fixed it for you.
LOL!
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.
Whatever - in the moment it was the right call, regardless of what you think was or wasn’t called before or after.
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