Tags: Denial
Ole Miss Athletics Director Pete Boone and head coach Ed Orgeron strongly disagreed. "I think our (replay) system is good, but there will be mistakes made and I agree with Coach (Orgeron) a mistake was made," Boone said. Boone's school "will move on," he said, but the incident proves replay "is not foolproof."
That my friends is textbook denial.
Just like I figured, the controversial call at the end of the Ole Miss game was upheld by the SEC officiating office as being the right call after all.
We were at the game on Saturday and, of course, you can't really tell that much from up in the stands. There were some really long replay delays in that game, but in the end they got the calls right. Of course, all the Ole Miss people around here (and there are a lot of them) disagree and are really mad about it. Maybe if they hadn't allowed Alabama to score 10 points in the 4th Quarter they might have won that game. Best case scenario for them on that final play would have been for them to get a replay of down, and there's no guarantee that they would have caught the ball that time either. On another note, I'm not sure when our guys are going to learn that on 4th down, you don't need to intercept the ball, just knock it down.
For the most part, the Ole Miss fans I encountered were cordial. The students were the ones throwing things, but that happens in Tuscaloosa too, it did at the UGA game. And Saban made comments about that after the game. He said it was classless what happened at the end of the game, and it's not appropriate when our fans do it either. Of course the quote has been trimmed down to not include the part about our fans and it has been reprinted in the newspapers. Jamie and I went down there a few years back on a rainy Saturday morning. Due to the rain, we really didn't get the full Grove experience that year. There weren't that many tailgaters. This time around though it was definitely an impressive spectacle. I still prefer Tuscaloosa and the Quad with its open spaces for kids to play. Not to mention that there were hardly any vendors selling food there. In Tuscaloosa, you can get some good food without bringing it with you. In Oxford, we basically had to buy from the University's student center.
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Oct 16th 2007
Denial?
I’m not sure which is more impressive:
How Ole Miss can continue to give games away at the end or how Alabama can continue to some how sneak out with a victory when they shouldn’t have.
The officials did make the correct call after reviewing it. If you’re in the SEC and playing the Elephants go ahead and count on 2 or 3 close calls that will go their way. No reason to argue, just accept it. It’s a fact of Tide Football that can’t be explained.
Oct 16th 2007
I can think of plenty of instances where the calls should have gone our way and didn’t. I remember a touchdown pass by Freddie Kitchens in Auburn where there absolutely was a foot in the endzone to win the game was called out of bounds. Arkansas trapping the ball in the endzone for a “touchdown” as time expired. Arkansas beating us with 12 men on the field. LSU beats us a couple of years ago on 2 really blatant non-calls where the officials were watching the play. And this was in Tuscaloosa. Keith Brown gets leveled with the ball in the air. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCbtQ0kbBQ
I seem to remember Auburn winning a game vs LSU on a bad call in 2004. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1U8nWN7-qg
All teams get bad calls. It goes both ways. Regardless, the call that was made in the Ole Miss game, both times it was overturned was the correct call. It was very close, but it was correct.