But I see what you’re saying. I think that in each case though, they’ve done the right thing:
1) Suspend the refs that blow the calls
2) Suspend the coaches that cry foul when there is none.

There’s going to be blown calls, and as long as Kiffin is coach at TN, there’s going to be coaches that don’t know the rules. I think they did the right thing with the officiating crew, but it’s not right that a coach can tarnish the name of the SEC. Hopefully the safety latches Slive put in place this year will prevent any more damage from being done.

Not one coach has “questioned the integrity of the SEC.” They’re questioning the quality of the officiating.

There has not been one coherent, reasoned suggestion that the SEC is rigging games for anyone and there’s a very good reason for that: Occam’s razor.

What’s more likely, that there are some old guys doing a really difficult, high-profile job who occasionally screw it up, and occasionally screw it up in a major way . . . or that an organization as public as the SEC has the power, capacity, and inclination to not only perpetuate some sort of grand scheme, but also the power and capacity to keep it a secret?

When you start thinking about how many people would have to be involved for this to be an SEC conspiracy, it becomes really obvious that either a) there is no conspiracy or b) the people in charge of it are brilliant masterminds who are wasting their time playing a low-stakes game when they could be gaming the stock market or something that might actually make them some real money.

Put another way: this is just silly.

I just think it’s wierd, Slive signs a billion dollar deal that puts the SEC in a league of their own. And now the league is being questioned for it’s policies and reactions to everything from officials to coaches to eye poking. It’s just like someone or thing is at work here. Could it be jealousy is the motivator?

conspiracy. If there was the refs would have helped UGA not LSU win. LSU stands between Bama and UF.

What we have here is :

1. A case of paranoid people seeking the ghost of Bear Bryant behind every door.

  coupled with

2. Some refs who are just not that good.

Listen if the refs wanted to keep Bama in this thing then they could rule Ingram did not fumble or call PI on UT at the goal line on Julio.

Nope the refs are clean but not very good. And Kiffin is so stupid by complaining he just proves the point. If the refs were dirty— sharper minds than Kiffin would have uncovered this plot.

And the reason we have these TV deals is because SEC fans are into football and the fans of Bama, UF, UT, LSU, UGA, AU, SC and Arky will watch every SEC game giving ESPN huge ratings just from within our huge fan bases. In the Big 12, Texas fans will not watch Kansas vs. KState

applauds you

I know I’m dumb and sometimes inept at my ability to forward a point, yet the thing I am trying to say is I think the conspiracy is against the SEC not Florida or Alabama or any other SEC team but rather against them all as a collective conference. The SEC is running away from everyone else and no better way to bring them back down to earth than to question the integrity, leadership, class of it’s players (Brandon Spikes) and ability to comprehend and follow the rules.

Are you trying to say that there is a conspiracy to keep the officiating controversies and dirty play by Spikes at the forefront of the media in order to try to bring the SEC down a notch? That’s all I can figure, but you have to remember that much of this was brought on by SEC members themselves: comments by Petrino, Mullen, Kiffen and now Myer as well as public statements by the SEC office. And we have a post here with 200+ replies on the Spikes incident for which no media fire-stoking was needed. I think it’s just a run of bad officiating publicity and a well known player getting caught misbehaving. The media’s just doing what the media does, push the stories that they believe the most people want to see.

I’m telling you guys. The media is attacking the SEC anyway they can. Even a missed false start call is gaining legs with the naysayers. JEALOUSY……….mixed with a double shot of crybaby.