Safety shouldn't have counted - Ejection for roughing-the-passer instead

[GAVol]

Bama held all game long... and you expect to get a call like that? Bama gets favorable officiating pretty much any time they play UT. That's especially true in Tuscaloosa.

I think most whining about refs is just typical fan stuff, but this is a trend that is impossible to ignore. We’ve developed this dynamic where apparently nobody ever holds when they play us. No offensive line on planet Earth goes a whole game without grabbing somebody, yet we seem to never draw holding flags.

 

[bamawriter]

Looks like you are wrong about the 15 yard penalty on the kickoff. Although roughing is normally a dead ball foul, “If a change of possession occurs” it is enforced from the previous spot. Should have been Tennessee ball with no safety.
NCAA rule 9-1-9

The whole "obvious the ball had been thrown" part of the roughing rule is going to make it a tough sell. Again, less than a second occurred between Aguilar going down and Keeley diving at him.

 

[bamawriter]

I think most whining about refs is just typical fan stuff, but this is a trend that is impossible to ignore. We’ve developed this dynamic where apparently nobody ever holds when they play us. No offensive line on planet Earth goes a whole game without grabbing somebody, yet we seem to never draw holding flags.

I don't understand complaining about no holding calls on the other team when your team also got no holding calls.

 

[goldvol]

@bamawriter Besides the fact that he’s on the ground, everyone else has stopped, his body lands directly on him (a point of emphasis ) and his hands land clearly in Aguliars helmet, you’re absolutely right. It’s still targeting whether the ball was thrown or not.
And apparently bammers can’t read time on a video. Pretty easy thing to just post the time stamps of the video.

 

[GAVol]

I don't understand complaining about no holding calls on the other team when your team also got no holding calls.

Over the course of multiple games though, we’ve had stretches where we couldn’t buy a flag. Last year we went multiple SEC games.

 

[bamawriter]

Over the course of multiple games though, we’ve had stretches where we couldn’t buy a flag. Last year we went multiple SEC games.

I get it. This is anecdotal because I haven't looked at the numbers, but it seems like holding is down across the SEC. I feel like I've seen more defensive holding calls on DBs than I have offensive holding calls on OLs.

 

[bamawriter]

@bamawriter Besides the fact that he’s on the ground, everyone else has stopped, his body lands directly on him (a point of emphasis ) and his hands land clearly in Aguliars helmet, you’re absolutely right. It’s still targeting whether the ball was thrown or not.
And apparently bammers can’t read time on a video. Pretty easy thing to just post the time stamps of the video.

My Youtube viewer doesn't have fractions of a second. You said you looked at it frame by frame. Maybe you can post the timestamps.