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Posted on 12/5/23 at 6:04 am to GAFF
He should have, but it’s also the replay official’s one and only job to stop a play like that. Kirby also has to worry about prepping for the next sequence, at least, but the replay official just clearly wasn’t closely watching the biggest play in the game to that point.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 6:19 am to GAFF
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Why Didn’t Kirby Challenge The No Catch?
It’s not a challenge like in the NFL, you just use your timeout and let them review it longer.
Honestly, a TO wouldn’t have been horrible in that situation anyway. They just made a huge play and were rushing up to the line themselves. Timeout gives them longer to review and UGA to get the right personnel on the field. Maybe they overturn it or maybe we hold them to a FG….
This post was edited on 12/5/23 at 6:20 am
Posted on 12/5/23 at 6:42 am to GAFF
Why didn't the refs get it right? Sometimes you make mistakes
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:21 am to GAFF
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Surely he had staff in the booth telling him it wasn’t a catch.
Why do people assume our staff got a look at it when it took CBS forever to get it on the air? Obviously the officials are suppose to be taking a look at it as well and should stop the play until they make sure he caught it. Evidently they did not see a review of it that confirmed it was not a catch when Bama snapped the ball. The mistake here is that the officials didn't stop the play on the field until they were sure he caught it.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:32 am to mistaken4193
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Honest to God I don’t think it was conclusive enough to overturn. I think it would have stood and people would have lost their damn minds
What? A review in Birmingham would benefit Alabama? You don’t say.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:34 am to GAFF
Who challenged the other one causing the review?
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:08 am to GAFF
Play could have gone either way in real time. It was close to being enough to overturn, has to be conclusive. I suspect Kirby and company felt that a timeout was more important considering the number of times a call is overturned.
The problem over all is they rely heavily on reviewing. One of the more common ones is calling a fumble...and overturning it on review. They rely on the review to get it right and call it a fumble when in doubt in real time. It is LONG past time for CFB officials to be professionals. The sport is, at the level of this game anyway, a multi-billion dollar a year industry YET the most important people involved are basically the same as those who call youth football games....it is ridiculous how bad college officiating is. It didn't cost UGA the game, bad calls usually equal out in a game and almost definitely over a season. There is NO excuse for EVERY game, meaningful or not, to have 4 or so truly bad calls that impact the game one way or another.
The problem over all is they rely heavily on reviewing. One of the more common ones is calling a fumble...and overturning it on review. They rely on the review to get it right and call it a fumble when in doubt in real time. It is LONG past time for CFB officials to be professionals. The sport is, at the level of this game anyway, a multi-billion dollar a year industry YET the most important people involved are basically the same as those who call youth football games....it is ridiculous how bad college officiating is. It didn't cost UGA the game, bad calls usually equal out in a game and almost definitely over a season. There is NO excuse for EVERY game, meaningful or not, to have 4 or so truly bad calls that impact the game one way or another.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:13 am to misey94
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All that said and as big of a mistake as this was, all UGA had to do was not turn the ball over and not get a stupid arse penalty that cost them a FG.
Exactly this. Those two plays cost us dearly and both were self inflicted.
People complain about officials all the time, but there has never been a perfect game called and there never will be. We have been very disciplined for the vast part of the year, but made two costly errors when it counted most.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:15 am to AbSnopes
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Because it was a catch.
Please explain
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:46 am to GAFF
That exact catch was overturned Thursday night to favor the Cowboys. Nobody could believe it. Y’all got a better chance of waking up with Laura Rutledge than figuring out what a catch is.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:51 am to Windy City
You are projecting as well, as a dumbass. Call was a catch, it was a catch. Georgia is the only team in the country with a support staff the size of Bama. They had enough eyes on it to challenge it. This was just Kirby's arrogance doing work.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:58 am to artompkins
Was not a catch and would have been overturned.
Glad he did not challenge. Because I think Texas had to have that Bama win to get in given the way things turned out.
Glad he did not challenge. Because I think Texas had to have that Bama win to get in given the way things turned out.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:01 am to GAFF
He should have called a timeout at least to give replay a chance to review it. Still the first half and you had a TO to spare.
I think it would have been one of those where whatever the call was on the field it would stand. It was close for sure.
I think it would have been one of those where whatever the call was on the field it would stand. It was close for sure.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:04 am to EGO3x
Did not look close to me. The ball hit turf and was not controlled. It was 4th down, not first or second down. Inexcusable not to challenge that for the UGA staff.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:05 am to houstonearler
It was a catch because that's what it was called. Anything else is speculation nothing more since Flow-bee didnt challenge it.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:29 am to GAFF
I am surprised he didn't. At the very least I would have expected him to call a time out for more review time.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:31 am to GAFF
Biggest in-game mistake Kirby has made imo since not riding the hot hand with Sony Michel in the fourth quarter of the 2017 national championship game and leaving Chubb out there, even though Michel was running through Bama and Chubb hadn't done jackshit all night.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:36 am to GAFF
It was a situation where timeouts were critical. If he calls the timeout and review is inconclusive, he's not getting the ball back or, if he does, would have no timeouts to work with. It really shouldn't come down to Kirby considering there are off-field officials whose only job is to look for situations requiring review.
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