Comments on: Refs Admit Screwup on Excessive Celebration Call that Hurt Georgia http://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/refs-admit-screwup-excessive-celebration-call-hurt-georgia/10017 Brown Bag it, Baby Sun, 27 May 2012 04:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dave http://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/refs-admit-screwup-excessive-celebration-call-hurt-georgia/10017/comment-page-1#comment-771349 dave Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:49 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/?p=10017#comment-771349 What you say is true and I believe it was not the best of calls. However, they made up for it when LSU scored. You don't mention that. You can't undo the possible results of a bad call, like the kickoff from the 15, but the Georgia special teams could have stopped the long kickoff return, so the indirect result was obviously a help to LSU. Also the game wasn't over. Georgia had time to regroup. We have the same sort of situation with LSU Alabama, only there was no "make up" call against Alabama and LSU did have a chance to come back as did Georgia, but failed to do so. Clearly Alabama was a better team that night and the result may have been the same if the interception stood, but we will never know. What is clear however is that humans are not perfect and in such cases there should be a very scrutinizing review by the NCAA. The business of college football and the peripheral institutions (TV, Las Vegas) have a lot to gain by having the "right" teams in the big TV/Gambling games. Alabama/Fla. for SEC championship is a far bigger draw than LSU/Fla. who already played this year. No. 3 Versus No. 1 is a bigger game from all points of view than a No. 9/8/? ranked LSU versus No.1 Fla. if LSU had won. Do not discount the influence of big business/money in SEC or any other NCAA conference with the huge TV and gambling spinoffs. Wake up and smell the crispy dollar bills. Next year it may work in favor of LSU. Either way, I don't like it. Let the players and coaches decide the outcome of the game with unbiased officiating. I got tired of watching the NBA because of similar stuff and to some extent the NFL. I guess the next thing you will see will be Southern Cal claiming the National Title with teh help of some biased pollsters. What you say is true and I believe it was not the best of calls. However, they made up for it when LSU scored. You don’t mention that. You can’t undo the possible results of a bad call, like the kickoff from the 15, but the Georgia special teams could have stopped the long kickoff return, so the indirect result was obviously a help to LSU. Also the game wasn’t over. Georgia had time to regroup.

We have the same sort of situation with LSU Alabama, only there was no “make up” call against Alabama and LSU did have a chance to come back as did Georgia, but failed to do so. Clearly Alabama was a better team that night and the result may have been the same if the interception stood, but we will never know. What is clear however is that humans are not perfect and in such cases there should be a very scrutinizing review by the NCAA. The business of college football and the peripheral institutions (TV, Las Vegas) have a lot to gain by having the “right” teams in the big TV/Gambling games. Alabama/Fla. for SEC championship is a far bigger draw than LSU/Fla. who already played this year. No. 3 Versus No. 1 is a bigger game from all points of view than a No. 9/8/? ranked LSU versus No.1 Fla. if LSU had won. Do not discount the influence of big business/money in SEC or any other NCAA conference with the huge TV and gambling spinoffs. Wake up and smell the crispy dollar bills. Next year it may work in favor of LSU. Either way, I don’t like it. Let the players and coaches decide the outcome of the game with unbiased officiating. I got tired of watching the NBA because of similar stuff and to some extent the NFL. I guess the next thing you will see will be Southern Cal claiming the National Title with teh help of some biased pollsters.

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