re: SEC permanently suspends Ken Williamson after Auburn-Georgia review

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This off season there should be a purge of SEC Refs. It's long overdue

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Jason Autry's crew should be next.

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It's not a satire or Bee/Onion type site if that is the question. I wouldn't call them particuarly good and they will definitely run stories that are less than verified or are incredibly biased, but they are at least a "real" news site. Another source for this would be preferable though for sure.

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The above is correct imo. They don’t make things up per se, But will run with rumor and innuendo that sometimes turns out to be false.

I have 3 friends that ref. Two do high school and the other does DII.

The DII ref watches film each week of every game the teams has played. Sometimes he goes back to past years to watch certain plays and players. Then they have zoom meetings and discuss what they have noticed. Opposing teams will send in info if they want certain things looked at. The crew will discuss penalties that each team make that are called and not called. Before the game a ref will talk to the coaches on things they have noticed on film that their players are doing and they will be watching. After the game he has to write a report on the game. Then he explains in detail what penalties he called.

Each official is graded by the league not just the crew. He wants to move up to DI, so he works 30 to 50 hours a week during football season. He also has a regular job that pays the bills, because officials don’t make much money. You can have a good crew, but the referee(white hat) can make them all look bad.

Each crew is a team. The white hat is the coach. He can overturn any call another official makes. The officials take their lead from him. One of my friends did a JV game and called a false start and the white hat overturn it. He yelled at him in the huddle and told him to quit calling the petty shite and let them play.

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I think you can still clap, but the timing and such matters. It has to mess with the snap count. If there is no snap count going on, how can you mess with it?

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A defensive player can not clap at any time now. For any reason, even to get another players attention. This is a video that explains 2025 rule changes for college football.

2025 College Football Rule Changes

It is addressed at the 2:21 mark.

“The defense can not clap. Period.”

So, he is "permanently surrendered" from calling games, not fired from the SEC?

What is his new position?

"news" is maybe a stretch. since its founding it's mostly been owned by ppl actively involved in partisan politics, as it is currently. as such, most of their stories are of local political interest with kind of an establishment GOP kind of spin on them usually. nothing too controversial.

but a scoop like this is definitely very unusual for them. maybe they got tipped off? you'd still like to read it somewhere else that actually does reporting on this type of thing in normal times to confirm it imo. the longer this goes with out any other outlet reporting it, i would definitely maybe start to question it.

but you gotta assume we'll find out soon enough.

if it's fake, they did a pretty good job

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A defensive player can not clap at any time now. For any reason, even to get another players attention. This is a video that explains 2025 rule changes for college football.

2025 College Football Rule Changes

It is addressed at the 2:21 mark.

“The defense can not clap. Period.”

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I'm still not sold. He only shows when they are in the process of snapping the ball.

Here is the rule:

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7-1-5a-5. No player shall use words or signals that disconcert opponents when they are preparing to put the ball in play. No player may call defensive signals that simulate the sound or cadence of, or otherwise interfere with, offensive starting signals. The terms “move” and “stem” are reserved for defensive cadence and may not be used by the offense. The offense may use a “clap” as a starting signal and this signal may not be used by the defense.

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If the team isn't putting the ball in play, aka doing snap count etc, then I don't think it's a penalty, and it shouldn't be either.

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That isn't what the rule states. It says defenders cannot clap, period. Any instance of it, regardless of whether the offense even reacts to it, is considered delay of game by the defense and is a 5 yard penalty.

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Ok, but that's not how I'm reading it.

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7-1-5-a-5. No player shall use words or signals that disconcert opponents when they are preparing to put the ball in play. No player may call defensive signals that simulate the sound or cadence of, or otherwise interfere with, offensive starting signals. The terms “move” and “stem” are reserved for defensive cadence and may not be used by the offense. The offense may use a “clap” as a starting signal and this signal may not be used by the defense.

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UGA didn't score on the drive. Primarily because they produced a hell of a makeup call negating a 30 plus yard UGA gain to inside the AU 5 by calling a legal block by RB Cash Jones an illegal blindside block.

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And that doesn't have one damn thing to do with not charging Georgia a timeout when Kirby was calling for a timeout. That was a horrible decision by everyone involved, at every level.