re: Fire Up Your Black Helicopters We Got Some SEC Penalty Statistics

Alabama used officials at practice everyday. Why, because it lets them know what they can get away with. The officials can throw flags for pass interference even in drills. That's why we are great!

Bama has had 5 holding penalties called on their OL all year long.

Three of them were in the Missouri game.

They're just that good.

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Alabama used officials at practice everyday. Why, because it lets them know what they can get away with. The officials can throw flags for pass interference even in drills

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Um, Bama isn't the only team that does the above.

Saban is just better than everyone else and Bama OL doesn't hold. It's that simple.

I think you nailed it.

Bama = RefU

You posted a link to a scout.com message board as a source?

Really?

You see, there's an interesting thing about statistics. They can be manipulated to give impressions depending on one's desires.

Take 2012 for example. I think his numbers are actually just a bit off. I have Alabama with 50 penalties and the opponents at 64. Pretty bad, right?

Well, to quote Paul Harvey, let's hear the rest of the story.

We'll start by just looking at conference games. In those 9 matchups, Alabama was flagged for 38 penalties. Their opponents were flagged for 39.

OMG ALABAMA GOT A 1 PENALTY ADVANTAGE! LAUNCH A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!!!!!

It gets even better.

Alabama was penalized more than their opponent in 5 of the 9 games and even in the other. In those games, Alabama's penalty margin was -16.

So who were the three that had more penalties than Alabama?

LSU (7-1)
Auburn (8-2)
Georgia (7-2)

Well, that nails it I guess. Looks bad.

Know what else looks bad? For the season:

LSU committed 23 more penalties than their opponents, were the most penalized team in 8 of the 12 games, and was flagged for 8 or more penalties 6 times.

UGA committed more penalties than their opponent in every single game except one (Vandy). They a committed 31 more penalties than their opponents for the season.

Auburn committed more penalties than their opponent in 9 games, were even in two, and committed fewer in one - LSU. I guess we could call that the undisciplined bowl. They committed a total of 25 more penalties for the year than their opponents.

Alabama doesn't get the breaks. Y'all just suck.

Here's a tip. Quit cherry picking numbers in an attempt to make lame arse excuses for your team's undisciplined play and simply accept the fact that Bama (and most of the rest of the conference) does a better job of avoiding stupid mistakes that lose games.

Edited to add: I didn't use a message board. I actually looked up the numbers here.

Think most honest SEC fans could have told you this without the statistical analysis. You could literally call holding on every single play. Amazing how Bama seems to avoid it.

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Saban is just better than everyone else and Bama OL doesn't hold. It's that simple.

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This guy gets it.

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How about a list with same stats, but in Bowl games. Then we can see how the same teams shake out, with other conference officials calling the games.

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Hell, if anything the refs for State's last two bowl games were even more generous to us than the SEC refs are to Bamer.

I remember two seperate occasions where our secondary breaks up a pass in the redzone and it is blatant PI and everybody else is cheering and I am the only one that hollars a cuss word word thinking we just gave them a 1st down inside the twenty. Then it's not called and I have to do the "oh yeah, on replay it was clearly uncatchable then" thing.