Greg Sankey doesnt hide his bias

#1
wmcovol

wmcovol

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 10, 2012
Messages
20,104
Likes
36,810
#1
two years ago he got played like a piano by Jeremy Foley over the Hurricane fiasco which impacted scheduling for 2 seasons.

This year he gets played by Saban, lets a bama player slug away at an opposing player with zero penalty from the league office. Now, anyone who thinks the same would be applied if a player from another school that wasnt #1 did the same thing, I'll hang up and listen. Florida, under Foley would have gotten away with it but I doubt no other school would. Do you think any basketball player would get away with that? Even Ky would lose a player and that would make Sankey equally sick.
 
  • Like
Reactions: onevol74 and TrentVol
#3
#3
wmcovol said:
This year he gets played by Saban, lets a bama player slug away at an opposing player with zero penalty from the league office. Now, anyone who thinks the same would be applied if a player from another school that wasnt #1 did the same thing, I'll hang up and listen.
Click to expand...

Davis retaliated against a guy who had just clubbed Mack Wilson in the head. He was wrong, and should have been ejected. But the Mizzou lineman didn't even draw a flag. I'm confident that Saban sent the clip to the league office, and rather than admit that the officials completely screwed up the entire sequence, the league office just called it a wash and let it go.
 
#4
#4
bamawriter said:
Davis retaliated against a guy who had just clubbed Mack Wilson in the head. He was wrong, and should have been ejected. But the Mizzou lineman didn't even draw a flag. I'm confident that Saban sent the clip to the league office, and rather than admit that the officials completely screwed up the entire sequence, the league office just called it a wash and let it go.
Click to expand...

Oh instead of suspending both guys who swung fists, they suspend no one........bama logic I guess. Meanwhile players are suspended for playing straight football.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Carl Pickens, Power T-Rev and Berry4Heisman14
#5
#5
wmcovol said:
Oh instead of suspending both guys who swung fists, they suspend no one........bama logic I guess. Meanwhile players are suspended for playing straight football.
Click to expand...

Again, to suspend both guys would be to say "our crew completely screwed up." They aren't going to do that.
 
#6
#6
I believe that there was a shift in priorities after Roy Kramer's service. Cam Newton would never have happened in the Kramer era, and neither would a host of other things. Kramer was like a strict constructionist judge who followed the law as written. Slive and Sankey are more like the progressive judges who believe that laws can be reinterpreted without being rewritten in order to achieve a desirable result. If you're a fan of a program that has pushed the envelope and flourished in recent years then your take on Slive and Sankey is probably different than fans of programs like Tennessee that flourished under the former administration but have not benefited so much from the new interpretations of the old rules.
 
  • Like
Reactions: vols40
#7
#7
Yet our best linebacker has to sit out the first half because of a bs targeting call....
 
#11
#11
05_never_again said:
You do have to admit that SEC office is filled with an inordinate amount of people with Alabama ties though.
Click to expand...

The league office is in Birmingham, so that’s not surprising.

I don’t buy into SEC conspiracy theories in 2018...1978 perhaps.

I know of at least one UF grad working at the SEC office. Good friend and wife of a former UF football player from our heyday in the 90s.
 
#12
#12
Lawrence Wright said:
The league office is in Birmingham, so that’s not surprising.

I don’t buy into SEC conspiracy theories in 2018...1978 perhaps.

I know of at least one UF grad working at the SEC office. Good friend and wife of a former UF football player from our heyday in the 90s.
Click to expand...
It's not surprising if Birmingham's Coca-Cola or Alabama Power office is filled with Alabama grads.

It is at least a little eyebrow raising when the entity in question is the governing body for all the schools in an athletic conference though.
 
#13
#13
05_never_again said:
It's not surprising if Birmingham's Coca-Cola or Alabama Power office is filled with Alabama grads.

It is at least a little eyebrow raising when the entity in question is the governing body for all the schools in an athletic conference though.
Click to expand...

I don’t completely disagree.

I thought it was bush league to schedule the first two SEC title games in Birmingham, as it gave Bama an built in home field advantage, not to mention a stranglehold on tickets three decades later.

Other than that it’s difficult to claim the league plays favorites today when Bama is so dominant on the field...smells like sour grapes complaining about a call here or call there that has no bearing on the game’s outcome.
 
Last edited:
#14
#14
Lawrence Wright said:
I don’t completely disagree.

I thought it was bush league to schedule the first two SEC title games in Birmingham, as it gave Bama an built in home field advantage, not to mention a stranglehold on tickets three decades later.

Other than that it’s difficult to claim the league plays favorites today when Bama is so dominant on the field...smells like sour grapes complaining about a call here or call there that has no bearing on the game’s outcome.
Click to expand...
Oh I totally agree - Alabama isn't dominant on the field because lots of people in the SEC office have Alabama ties. I'm just saying that is noticeable. Honestly it still seems kind of bush league to have the league offices still in Birmingham. I get it is centrally located within the SEC, but it isn't a major city. It seems like they would have moved the offices to Atlanta at some point. Hell, it took them forever to move Media Days out of Hoover.
 
#15
#15
Hilarious!

A football play resulting in targeting yields an ejection from the game, regardless of intent. This (punches and a knee to the back) resulted in a 15 yard penalty and a couple of 6am jogs.
 
#16
#16
CobbVol said:
Hilarious!

A football play resulting in targeting yields an ejection from the game, regardless of intent. This (punches and a knee to the back) resulted in a 15 yard penalty and a couple of 6am jogs.
Click to expand...
That's why targeting should just be an ejection from the current game. Let the league office handle it from there. It's preposterous for a referee to possibly impact the next game based on a decision he has to make instantly.
 
  • Like
Reactions: FĂŻreBall and vols_fan_68
#18
#18
bamawriter said:
Davis retaliated against a guy who had just clubbed Mack Wilson in the head. He was wrong, and should have been ejected. But the Mizzou lineman didn't even draw a flag. I'm confident that Saban sent the clip to the league office, and rather than admit that the officials completely screwed up the entire sequence, the league office just called it a wash and let it go.
Click to expand...
Think logically, everyone has seen your guy swinging punches, where most didn't catch the Missouri player. When your player is all over social media for that incident, and it gets swept under the rug, of course it looks like bias. Jmo.
 
New Posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

Advertisement



Back
Top