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I worry more about the guys in the stripped shirts beating TN than I do Georgia be able to beat the VOLS.

You could see it starting in the first quarter of the KY game, but TN got so far ahead the refs knew even they couldn't help KY win.

I've watched the UK game twice, now, the bama game three times, amd every other game at least twice with the exception of the ooc games. 

Its not the zebras are against UT... its the SEC zebras are incompetent.  They always have at least one really bad squad, but this year I've yet to see a decent squad.  They're that bad. 

I watched the cocktail party, and specifically to scout UGA- the dawg D was trying to twist pull and bend UFs O players- specifically Richardson, several times.  The very first O play was a late hit and ugly- and it went uncalled.  Meaning: they're going to be after Hooker in the same way, and hooker isn't built to sustain damage like Richardson is.... im not one to adopt the "protect the QB" mentality between whistles, but after the whistle?  Players who do that shit need to be ejected.

I think a big problem with today's officials is that the game is just too fast for them. It takes most of these officials so long to qualify to officiate SEC games they're just too old and slow to keep up with the plays and they are out of posistion to make the proper call.

I think a big problem with today's officials is that the game is just too fast for them. It takes most of these officials so long to qualify to officiate SEC games they're just too old and slow to keep up with the plays and they are out of posistion to make the proper call.

I think refs rely on the review booth too much ….. the amount of ish that ends up having to be reviewed is ridiculous 

And I’ll never understand why referees are affiliated with conferences , no reason in todays time and age there shouldn’t be a national pool of referees 

I've watched the UK game twice, now, the bama game three times, amd every other game at least twice with the exception of the ooc games. 

I have re-watched every game this year once - will start the Kentucky game this afternoon/evening.  In case you didn't know, there's a guy called vol freak on YouTube who posts every game in its entirety skipping the (televised) commercials.  It's great to watch on a laptop because you can hit the skip forward/back arrows if you want to speed past instant replays or re-watch certain plays.  

I worry more about the guys in the stripped shirts beating TN than I do Georgia be able to beat the VOLS.

You could see it starting in the first quarter of the KY game, but TN got so far ahead the refs knew even they couldn't help KY win.

That's pretty much my take.  We had calls in the 1st Q against the Cats that would've derailed most UT squads post 2001 or so.
We just went "pfft", and kept chugging down the tracks.  A MACHINE.  Early on, I told my wife "we're going to have to beat the Cats, AND the refs".  No problemo (she's gotten smitten by these Vols.  Watched the entire Bama game with me.  A first!  I told her "that's why we won."  Of course, that also makes her responsible for 15 straight losses...)  
There was a PI, not sure when, where the official who was RIGHT IN FRONT of the play held on to his flag.  I jumped out of my chair.  Then the "penalty" graphic popped up, courtesy of another ref who apparently has eyes.
The air has changed in K-town.  You can FEEL it.  As some good ol' boy said in a vid I saw, "there's ELECTRICITY in these mountains."  It comes across the TV.  After 20 years of sad sack hard luck and the WEIRDEST of circumstances, penalties, and a clown show coaching carousel, 
we're on a ROLL.  We ain't slowing down.  Coaching is EVERYTHING.  Which includes recruiting, of course.  But a great coach can take others' underachieving recruits, and turn them into overachieving studs, in a season or two.  Bruce Pearl at UT.  Barnes, too.

Vols Ahead Of Schedule?

That's a rhetorical question, right?

LIGHTYEARS.

What we're seeing is UNBELIEVABLE.  Water, after a long slog across massive desert.  Life-giving water!  I hope as old farts, we can truly appreciate and enjoy this moment.  #2, maybe #1 in the CFP?  1 vs. 2 this weekend?  ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

Don't pinch me.  I don't want to wake up from this dream.

Long live Coach Heup.  What a blessing.  The blind hog as finally found a nut.  From underwhelming to coaching greatness.  You can see it.  We're watching the making of our next legendary coach.  Quiet.  Calm.  Competent.  A winner.  A champion.  He has awakened the sleeping giant.
 
He's been through this before.  OU went from years of losing seasons, to 7-5 in '99, to NC in '00 during his Heisman runner-up campaign.

He's being compared to Saban -- 7-6 in '07, 12-2 in '08, dynasty.

And Spurrier, turning around the UF program overnight.

I believe those comparisons are valid.

I'm having a BLAST right now.  And the future is BRIGHT.

Ironic -- we finally arrive back on the main stage, with the big boys --

just in time for what is the "twilight's last gleaming."

Unless there is a turn around in this nation as big or bigger than on the Big Orange gridiron. 

I think refs rely on the review booth too much ….. the amount of ish that ends up having to be reviewed is ridiculous

And I’ll never understand why referees are affiliated with conferences , no reason in todays time and age there shouldn’t be a national pool of referees

agreed... and come post season it makes a big difference when players are accustomed to being allowed into the gray area of play by their hometown refs just to find the 'unaffiliated' refs take grave exception to that behavior.  it goes both ways, sometimes, too.