re: Bo Nix is just not very good.

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no it wasn't. Take the grounding penalty. You lose one to two yards. Nobody seems to remember......this is the second time, this year, he has botched the ball on a spike play. That was a spot foul penalty also.

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Care to go on a trip with me to an officiating board? Specifically an NCAA Officiating board? You are also debating an Official that has 25 years under the belt including Semi Pro ball using NFL Rules.

The fumble killed a legal spike. The White Hat anticipates the spike, gets tunnel vision and kills the play while ignoring everything start to finish. The replay cannot award the ball to Arkansas because ...In instant replay, an inadvertent whistle is ignored when the fumble is recovered immediately. This backward pass is touched by an Arkansas Player, then the foot of the "C" Official (part of the field) then recovered by Arkansas. Anticipating a clean spike, the White screwed this up. In the original view from behind the action, The White Hat is clearly signaling incomplete pass while blowing his whistle. It is not until the White Hat runs in on the action that the other Officials kill the paly before the fumble is recovered.

The White Hat covered himself and his inadvertent whistle, by declaring an illegal forward pass. The SEC covered for him. But he will catch hell on Tuesday or Wednesday when the crew is evaluated by phone from SEC Headquarters.

If it's not a killed spike as you claim, then explain why it becomes an illegal pass and the loss of down plus penalty yardage from the spot of the foul? To make your claim stick ...something has to occur to make to take the spike away.