Well if you want to wear tin foil hats, here's one that's inexplicable:
With 2:15 to play in Saturday night’s Kentucky/South Carolina game, the Wildcats were flagged for an illegal substitution coming out of a timeout. Trailing 35-28, UK was attempting to stop Carolina and get the ball back for one last drive. The penalty gave the Gamecocks a 1st-and-5 that they eventually converted to clinch the game.
One problem.
Kentucky didn’t have 12 men on the field and didn’t illegally substitute anyone. And the SEC has admitted as much to Kentucky coach Mark Stoops:
“Just got off the phone with (SEC coordinator of officials) Steve Shaw and they made a mistake. They were wrong…
I couldn’t understand, I didn’t understand the call. I thought it was on them. The guy on our sideline thought it was on them. I said, ‘We didn’t substitute anybody.’ We didn’t take anybody out after that. So, I don’t understand. They said there was 12 guys. I said, ‘Well, we played with the same guys that were out there, so evidently we played the last three plays, four plays with 12.’”
(10-09-2013 06:23 PM)bullet Wrote: Well if you want to wear tin foil hats, here's one that's inexplicable:
With 2:15 to play in Saturday night’s Kentucky/South Carolina game, the Wildcats were flagged for an illegal substitution coming out of a timeout. Trailing 35-28, UK was attempting to stop Carolina and get the ball back for one last drive. The penalty gave the Gamecocks a 1st-and-5 that they eventually converted to clinch the game.
One problem.
Kentucky didn’t have 12 men on the field and didn’t illegally substitute anyone. And the SEC has admitted as much to Kentucky coach Mark Stoops:
“Just got off the phone with (SEC coordinator of officials) Steve Shaw and they made a mistake. They were wrong…
I couldn’t understand, I didn’t understand the call. I thought it was on them. The guy on our sideline thought it was on them. I said, ‘We didn’t substitute anybody.’ We didn’t take anybody out after that. So, I don’t understand. They said there was 12 guys. I said, ‘Well, we played with the same guys that were out there, so evidently we played the last three plays, four plays with 12.’”
A conversation with my dad about high school football and just how bad officiating is at that level, to see it as bad as it is at the college level...what secret level is there between the pro's and college where things get noticeably better?
It's called professionalism. HS and College refs are all ammeters getting gas money and a few bucks/ game. pro league refs get paid an annual salary. All they do is ref.
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Phantom substitution call
