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re: Boutte about to make a good decision
Posted by Espoe on 12/16/21 at 2:33 pm to remaster916
As much as I hate to see it happen, you’re right. From his perspective; he’s currently in a program restarting from 2 years of drama, his coaches that he bought into are gone, his quarterback is uncertain, there are no realistic championship prospects for this year, and he’s got one year left to play and solidify or raise his draft position. He can play anywhere he wants because of the transfer portal.
In the case of Bama; they have a Heisman magician at QB, an offense that features great receivers, Saban and all that means, and a team stocked with top recruiting classes and always in the playoff.
And I’m not even factoring nil money things since he’s got only one year (another if he needs it) and the big money for him is the draft. Putting loyalties aside, what’s the best decision for him?
I hate it, but I see it and wish him the best. In the meantime LSU needs a year to steady the ship and get back on track. Players leaving is not solely about money.
In the case of Bama; they have a Heisman magician at QB, an offense that features great receivers, Saban and all that means, and a team stocked with top recruiting classes and always in the playoff.
And I’m not even factoring nil money things since he’s got only one year (another if he needs it) and the big money for him is the draft. Putting loyalties aside, what’s the best decision for him?
I hate it, but I see it and wish him the best. In the meantime LSU needs a year to steady the ship and get back on track. Players leaving is not solely about money.
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Yep. Pretty sure part of his contract is that he is the highest paid or at least an average of the top few. And he certainly deserves it.
re: Clean strip on Palmer, Aggy screwed on the call
Posted by Espoe on 11/28/21 at 1:55 pm to white beans
An essentially .500 team playing another .500 team complaining about the refs as if they don’t screw up enough on their own. How about asking yourself what great defensive scheme let him get to the end zone behind the corner in the first place?
re: Kentucky's argument about the need for a GT rule is not valid (I think)
Posted by Espoe on 2/13/19 at 2:43 pm to Tiger Dominance
It really is more complicated than it appears at first glance. There would need to be a provision for stopping play on a no call, or exceptions made just for game ending plays. Who gets to initiate that? Then, if the play becomes reviewable, how much of the play are you reviewing? Is it the whole play or just a piece of the play? How technical do you want to be? In the first part of the play, players from KY struck the back board and had their hands in the net while the first shot was in the air on the downward trajectory to the basket, which by rule is goal tending on KY prior to the basket interference by LSU. That makes the play dead at that point, 2 points to LSU and KY gets the ball with whatever time is left. Probably not the outcome that people are thinking about but in my mind you would have to review the whole sequence because can you imagine the storm if you ignored the violations at the first part of the play but chose to enforce only those in the second part. Conspiracy theorists would love it but I am not sure that would be good for basketball.
In my experience as a former basketball official, the cry was always be consistent, let the players play, stay anonymous, as much as possible do not be the one that determines the outcome, and I could go on. This is from coaches, fans, and the organizations that I worked for. This was about as bang-bang a play as you will see. I can only imagine the trailing official responsible was looking and judging at the same time whether any of the violations gave a team an unfair advantage. Since the goaltending things happened prior to the ball being at the point of going in the cylinder, and the basket interference occurred as the ball was leaving the cylinder, that he made the split second judgment that neither affected the play, so let it go. Of course that's my impression and I have no idea what really went though his head. Just saying that the non calls seemed reasonable although probabaly technically wrong if subjected to a technical review. So when you start going down the road of reviewing them how technical do you want to be? That will be a tough one.
What happened to the Saints that ended a season is unconscionable. The impacts there go way beyond that game. In this one, everybody plays next week and has many more to come. So I agree there needs to be a method to prevent what happened to the Saints, and also to allow a look at game ending plays at the very least. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
In my experience as a former basketball official, the cry was always be consistent, let the players play, stay anonymous, as much as possible do not be the one that determines the outcome, and I could go on. This is from coaches, fans, and the organizations that I worked for. This was about as bang-bang a play as you will see. I can only imagine the trailing official responsible was looking and judging at the same time whether any of the violations gave a team an unfair advantage. Since the goaltending things happened prior to the ball being at the point of going in the cylinder, and the basket interference occurred as the ball was leaving the cylinder, that he made the split second judgment that neither affected the play, so let it go. Of course that's my impression and I have no idea what really went though his head. Just saying that the non calls seemed reasonable although probabaly technically wrong if subjected to a technical review. So when you start going down the road of reviewing them how technical do you want to be? That will be a tough one.
What happened to the Saints that ended a season is unconscionable. The impacts there go way beyond that game. In this one, everybody plays next week and has many more to come. So I agree there needs to be a method to prevent what happened to the Saints, and also to allow a look at game ending plays at the very least. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
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