SEC conspiracy theories

[rjd970]

officials make a ton of mistakes.. no doubt about that.. but a conspiracy is a planned activity... I just don't buy that a conference or group of officials plan to make calls for one team over another in any particular game.

Can a single official officiate with a bias? I could see that as just a function of being a human being and intentionally or unintenionally making / not making calls.

Most officiating is just humans making errors in my opinion... In my younger days, I officiated some basketball games and found it extremely difficult to be close to perfect..

I’m on the side that there are probably some officials that naturally can’t officiate some Bama games without unintentional bias, and not some coordinated conspiracy.

But I still maintain that the conference needs to fix that and be above board. Also the conference office in Birmingham needs to be somewhere else.

But the calls/no-calls we have seen the last few games in Tuscaloosa are clearly biased. The numbers and film simply don’t lie.

 

[KTrain]

......or don't crap yourself and make a pretty simple field goal.

Whichever comes first I guess.

Exactly we beat UGA in regulation they did nothing to stop us except watch a missed FG as time expired, that should be a give me. if you're a P4 kicker, no excuses.

 

[KTrain]

I’m on the side that there are probably some officials that naturally can’t officiate some Bama games without unintentional bias, and not some coordinated conspiracy.

But I still maintain that the conference needs to fix that and be above board. Also the conference office in Birmingham needs to be somewhere else.

But the calls/no-calls we have seen the last few games in Tuscaloosa are clearly biased. The numbers and film simply don’t lie.

I think officials get intimidated by coach's the media have made future HOFers. Kirby knocked the $hit out of MSU QB and official right beside him , crickets. Kirby calls a Timeout and talks the official out of awarding the TO and still gets the unofficial TO with no ramifications. Officials become officials because they are big fans of the sport and just not good players. Then they get to officiate games and are around ppl that they admire and are their heroes. Most officials I believe try to call it right but some are intimidated and smitten like a teenage girl seeing a matinee idol.

 

[Rickyvol77]

not SEC conspiracy theories, but I 1000% percent believe that some refs have fixed NCAA basketball games to get matchups the networks want or at least bet on certain games.

Tennessee vs the Big Ten in the tourney in particular

- Ohio St getting touch fouls every drive to the basket in the Elite 8 in 2nd half, when we were up by almost 30. There is no way anyone watches that game and doesn't see it
- Michigan St getting late calls to keep us from Elite 8
- Michigan getting calls late when UT was making a comeback and having a shot to pull off upset
- Purdue the 1st game when the refs gave them that foul which was 100000% BS call
- Purdue and that mongoloid FT merchant in the 2nd game

that's at least 4 final four appearances and possibly 5 cost to us by bad officiating including very costly "unusual" calls late

 

[tennesseeduke]

Open date this weekend and watching games. Happened to think about all of the wild happenings within the conference this year combined with Bama’s dominance under Saban. With this, recalling all of the complaints about the SEC office in that state and how that team, and others, seem to get breaks at pivotal times.

Saying that, what conspiracy theory about the SEC do you actually believe in?

Is there a general college football conspiracy theory you believe in?

I must say, Freeze got a very raw deal this year at the Barn. Do I believe the SEC office or others set a mandate to oust him? Not really. Just poor officiating.

I do believe we (Tennessee) conspired or pushed to have Florida’s SEC championship pulled away in ‘85 leading to our Sugarvols.

I do believe Fulmer conspired to get Bama in trouble but, I’m not certain he did that in exchange for the SEC/NCAA to turn a blind eye to us.

One word. GAMBLING

 

[fefe]

LOL for example remember the 2nd half of Bama in 2023? I do.

We do need to play better, but they feel like protected teams by the conference.

That game pisses me off. We should have beat Bama 3 years in a row. Saban looked dazed and confused at halftime.

 

[livefaith]

The problem with conspiracy theories these days is that they usually are proven factual pretty quickly thanks to the interwebs.

 

[wmcovol]

Especially when an SEC QB won the award the year before.

I think you just answered the question as to why Manning didn’t win it.