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Crew removed from Oct. 31 game
ESPN ^ | 10-21-09

Posted on 10/21/2009 4:27:55 PM PDT by Dysart

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Southeastern Conference has suspended officials from last weekend's Arkansas-Florida game after the crew was involved in its second controversial call of the year.

Referee Marc Curles' crew called a personal foul on Arkansas defensive lineman Malcolm Sheppard in the fourth quarter as the Gators were rallying for a 23-20 victory. The league said there was no video evidence to support the call.

The same group of officials called the LSU-Georgia game earlier this month, which included a late unsportsmanlike conduct penalty the league said shouldn't have been called.

"A series of calls that have occurred during the last several weeks have not been to the standard that we expect from our officiating crews," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Wednesday. "I believe our officiating program is the best in the country. However, there are times when these actions must be taken."

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KEYWORDS: cheat; collegefootball; ncaa; officiating; refs; sec; suspends; thefixisin
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A forfeit is also in order. The Hogs was robbed.

Discuss.

1 posted on 10/21/2009 4:27:56 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart
Video evidence.

Arkansas gets screwed by SEC referees

2 posted on 10/21/2009 4:30:01 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

Go Gators!!


3 posted on 10/21/2009 4:31:17 PM PDT by robert561
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To: robert561

You’re an SEC Referee?


4 posted on 10/21/2009 4:31:59 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

All in an average SEC weekend. Go Gators!


5 posted on 10/21/2009 4:32:49 PM PDT by fuente
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To: Dysart

bttt


6 posted on 10/21/2009 4:33:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Dysart

On the take?


8 posted on 10/21/2009 4:35:11 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Dysart
Suspensions well deserved.
9 posted on 10/21/2009 4:36:07 PM PDT by Shqipo (A whiff of blowback is in the air.)
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To: Dysart

Hardly, all UAR had to do was then stop UF. UF was not in the endzone. And after UF tied the game UAR might have scored themselves. But alas they failed and UF marched the ball on the for a game winning field goal.

UAR that day was close to UF, but alas for you, they were not the equal to UF or better.


10 posted on 10/21/2009 4:36:51 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Dysart

I thought this might be about last nights Ump crew in Anaheim. Both teams were rolling their eyes. Didn’t change the outcome, but it was an incredibly poor showing by the Umpire crew.


11 posted on 10/21/2009 4:38:41 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Dysart

No doubt about it. They was robbed twice. It should have been Arkansas 20 Florida 13 final score. By the way, the SEC is by far the best conference in college football.


12 posted on 10/21/2009 4:38:41 PM PDT by skimask
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To: GOP_Raider

PING!!


13 posted on 10/21/2009 4:38:56 PM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: JLS

Well, I doubt anyone would argue that this UA team is the equal of Florida on paper, but on this day they played well enough win, and it would have been appropriate to let the players sort out the better team on that particular Saturday, not these bonehead zebras.


14 posted on 10/21/2009 4:42:00 PM PDT by Dysart
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Amen! Two bad calls in a row. I think it cost us the game.

parsy, the razorback


15 posted on 10/21/2009 4:42:08 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Shqipo

The suspension were deserved for the awful call that turned the end of the UGa v. LSU game. Last week’s call was just an excuse.

On that call the offical made a judgement that the UF guy pulled up with the whistle and the UAR guy could have. I pretty much agree the UF guy pulled up at the last second which is why he ended up on his butt. Whether the UAR guy could have pulled up to or not is tough to know. They have told officals the last couple of years to clean up the hitting after the whistle. So the official threw the flag.

I prefer they not throw any of these flags particularly late in close games. Football is a contact sport. You better be ready to be hit anytime you are within the white lines and just after you have crossed them too in my mind. But if you tell officials to clean up late hits, you must expect calls like this.


16 posted on 10/21/2009 4:42:10 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Dysart
The Southeastern Conference has suspended officials from last weekend's Arkansas-Florida game
I think they were hired to umpire last night's Yankees / Angels game.

17 posted on 10/21/2009 4:42:14 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Dysart

Too bad the NFL doesn’t suspend those idiot referees last Sunday for that totally idiotic 1st down call when the ball was at least 1 or 2 fists behind the first-down marker. Insane! Even the announcers (who definitely were not pro-Browns) couldn’t believe they gave the Steelers a 1st down.

‘Bout time the referees of most sports be made to pay for stupid, idiotic calls.


18 posted on 10/21/2009 4:42:52 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: ilgipper
Agreed....pretty poor job in such a crucial series.

At least the 3rd.base ump. admitted he had erred over the double play ball that should have got both Posada and Swisher.

19 posted on 10/21/2009 4:44:57 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Dysart
It was not bad one call, but three bad calls during Florida's final two drives. Everyone has seen games where one bad call seemed to decide the outcome late in a game, but this game had THREE bad calls in Florida's favor in final six to eight minutes.

This crew well deserved to be removed from officiating, for good.

And any Florida fans or otherwise still pretending that the officiating wasn't grossly unfair to Arkansas, well, I expect you've got other problems of acknowledging reality other than in sports competitions.

20 posted on 10/21/2009 4:47:09 PM PDT by Will88
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