Let’s talk about that safety

Worst officiating Crew in the sec. They operated in such a way to protect TN.

All i can think of is they ruled it a forward pass and the spotted it wrong and were to bad at communicating to properly tell us.

Work out 2 plays later as i would rather have 7 than 2.

Crazy call. I guess they were saying the lineman had the ball over the goal line before he was down, it clearly was not.

It made no sense.

I was stunned with the call. There is no way on earth that was not a safety. The entire game was filled with questionable calls. That crew should never be allowed to officiate another college football game. Pitiful, just pitiful.

There’s 2 possible reasons for the horrendous call:

1. They deemed it a forward pass, meaning incomplete with intentional grounding, which puts the ball precisely on the half yard line after penalty distance, and they were too damn lazy to try and explain all that so they just confirmed the original call since it was ultimately the same result.

OR

2. They are corrupt and cheating.

Either way, it was bullshite and they suck.

And… probably corrupt on both options since the replay also clearly confirmed it was a backward pass at very best, which means live ball, which means the OL’man was down in the end zone and it was a safety.

I mean, without fricking question, the dude had 100% complete possession until he hit the ground. The ground beyond clearly is what jarred the ball loose.

I’m certain the refs were favoring Tennessee. On social media even Vol fans are saying the refs helped them.

Targeting against Stet was stupid obvious. Our DB’s just tug a jersey and on guys not even targets on plays and it’s PI, but they can hold Arian Smith’s and Brock Bowers jerseys for 15-25 yards when they’re the targets and it’s no-called.

One of the PI’s on Ringo was absurd. The WR came off the line and bear-hugged Ringo who was back-peddling, then attempted to break away but the ball was already on the way and pretty much bounced off his face mask. Just a bullshite PI call.

On top of all that they also easily missed 5-6 blatant holds by Tenn’s OL that were very impactful and all contributed to 1st downs. Especially on the long pass just before they scored their lone TD. We would have definitely had at least 2 more sacks, and Hooker would have had 30 less rushing yards and 70 less passing yards.

Yep. We had to beat Tennessee and the refs yesterday. And we dominated both even still.

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think the let’s some things go both ways BUT still haven’t seen how that wasn’t a safety.

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They really didn't though.

We got multiple PI's called on us and they got zero and UT had at least 3 blatant
PI's that weren't called not including offensive PI on Kelly Ringo's interception.

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My understanding is that the ball has to be completely past the line. The exact opposite of the ball just breaking the plain on a touchdown. No way was it completely out.

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This is moot since their call was that he fumbled and they recovered on the half yard line.

That’s the main reason why the whole situation stinks like corruption. To watch that replay and still suggest he didn’t have complete control and the ground wasn’t what jarred the ball loose is basically this MF’er telling all of us our eyes are lying to us and we didn’t see what we saw.

No reason this crew should ever officiate a SEC game again. Review official too. To make that call and to provide no explanation is insane. Worst call I've ever seen. Multiple angles of the lineman down in the end zone with possession. Just unbelievable.

Well that was almost convenient for Tennessee if true. Lol. Dawgs were just too much. Even the blatant bad calls didn’t get them anywhere.

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hey come out and still call it a fumble with no explanation.

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Maybe I am misunderstanding, but I think the fumble part was Hooker's was a fumble and not a forward pass. They then said the Lineman got the ball out of the endzone before being down. (I agree that I don't believe he was)

Here is the key. He The ball was not out of the endzone, but I think in order to over turn it they would have had a clear view of exactly where the ball was and where he was down at the same time.

It seemed obvious the ball could not have been out of the end zone but I don't think there was a clear shot of his knee and the football. I'm glad it didn't play into the outcome.

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this MF’er telling all of us our eyes are lying to us and we didn’t see what we saw.

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SEC officiating representative from the Ministry of Truth.