Ark 20 at Florida 23 (ov/un 54.5) CBS

[BB73]

Very questionable, but you can make an argument (weak, yes - subjective, certainly) that the Hog instituted helmet on helmet contact in the play.

Not saying my orange and blue glasses don't fog up, just that I can see a way that the ref might have seen him as leading with his helmet. I need to know the angle of the ref and what he saw. But H-2-H would explain a "personal foul" call.

Finally, both of the questionable calls were on first down - I think - and while it sure got us closer to field goal range, we had three more downs to get ten in each case, and you cannot say that without the call the game would absolutely been different, like in a 4th down situation.

(And the Swindle in the Swamp gives us the right to get several more of these - karma wise. )

If they would have called the blatant offensive interference, it would have been 3 downs to get 25.

 

[morbitzerker]

Very questionable, but you can make an argument (weak, yes - subjective, certainly) that the Hog instituted helmet on helmet contact in the play.

What I wonder about more than anything, is that if the Arkansas player hadn't lowered his shoulder, or stood his ground, or H2H or whatever it was, if the Gator player had hit that block and the Arky player went down, I wonder if there would have been a call on UF. Of course, it's all subjective and easy to guess, I think it was more how the UF player went down and his reaction to getting hit and being thrown into a full-out bellyflop, but I do wonder if 96 went if that would be a "good block-no call."

 

[Nutriaitch]

Very questionable, but you can make an argument (weak, yes - subjective, certainly) that the Hog instituted helmet on helmet contact in the play.

Not saying my orange and blue glasses don't fog up, just that I can see a way that the ref might have seen him as leading with his helmet. I need to know the angle of the ref and what he saw. But H-2-H would explain a "personal foul" call.

Finally, both of the questionable calls were on first down - I think - and while it sure got us closer to field goal range, we had three more downs to get ten in each case, and you cannot say that without the call the game would absolutely been different, like in a 4th down situation.

(And the Swindle in the Swamp gives us the right to get several more of these - karma wise. )

come on gator!
you can spin it better than that.

it would be a lot easier to convince me that the ref didn't see the actual hit.

kinda looked that way just as the UF player was going to the ground.

so ref just assumes the Arky lineman took a cheap shot away from the play.


still wrong for the ref to assume anything, but that would at least be believable to me.

 

[BB73]

This is noteworthy. That crew won't work an SEC game again until Nov 14th.

SI.com

SEC suspends UF-Arkansas crew

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- 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.

The SEC says the crew will be removed from its scheduled assignment this weekend 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.

 

[BB73]

If they would have called the blatant offensive interference, it would have been 3 downs to get 25.

It would have been 3 downs to get 25 yards, including 4th down. I wasn't sure (and the play-by-play I found just listed 2 incomplete passes on the first 2 downs, but it was on second down from the Ark 40 with 1:07 left.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWAmTFB_StQ&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Arkansas gets screwed by refs (Shoulda Been Offensive PI)[/ame]