Why does Lockheed sponsor a bowl? Am I a potential customer for an F-35B?
you know the answer to that...
This is a message board not a practice facility. What do you think people are going to talk about? Don't be annoying.
exactly..
today, my facebook feed is lit up with comments about the games yesterday (the CFP games). they are all moaning about the officiating- and i guess that's fine. what strikes me odd about it is the majority of these folks don't
really follow the game, and watched maybe three or four games this season- which is to say they went to a party somebody threw for this or that game and mingled while drinking a lot.... they didn't even watch those games, in other words.
as soon as i saw the SEC team officiating in the tOSU/Clemson game, i KNEW there would be tomfujjery to take place. They are bad. It's not just one game, and it's not that often it seems to favor one team... and to be as fair as i can- we're now watching on 72" 4K televisions with a massive array of camera angles and replays on demand...... have these things always been this bad? i'm thinking, yeah... those refs are human. those folks complaining about the calls just haven't watched the games enough to know how constant this theme is.
now on the flip side- if you want to see a team get jobbed by the zebras, go watch the UT/Bama game from this year... there is but one explanation for the calls in that game- and though i may appear biased, i'll let you decide. I've seen bama get calls and the same refs with eagle eyes miss obvious ones.
But... alas, again i say- if one team is decisively better than the other, the refs can't change the outcome. personally, i think the three best teams in the game this season, little numbers beside their names or not- LSU, Clemson, tOSU- in whatever order you want to give them. in a perfect world, if LSU can beat Clemson, i'd like to see them validate that by beating tOSU too.... but that ain't an option.
and something else to add... i know Herby was saying it, but... that field was obviously slick, and the trip tackle on the tOSU breakway run wouldn't have happened without it. That unto itself is a factor in the outcome... the field itself.
i recall, '95 maybe? UT played tOSU and beat them like a drum in a bowl game. they were penalized early costing them 15 yards on the kick after half for 'improper equipment'. they were wearing cleats too long, and that field was super sloppy... it looked like UT was faster by a massive margin, but... they could simply get traction. was it cheating? serendipitous mistake? if anyone who watched that game doesn't believe it a factor, they'd be crazy. and this, from a UT fan...
