Comments on: Florida’s Free Field Goal and Mystery Yard

By: Grunts: The South "Won't" Rise Again? | Sitron's Post

Grunts: The South "Won't" Rise Again? | Sitron's Post — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:45:31 +0000

[...] three horrible calls changed the momentum of the game, leading to a kick made after the play clock expired. The SEC apologized for the most egregious call , suspended the repeat offenders and reprimanded [...]

By: Mike83

Mike83 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:01:39 +0000

LOL, think its bad. Just watch every time Georgia gets a drive going today. Youll see a 3rd and long.

I moved to Gainesville and am inspecting the whole thing. But you got to take a little at a time. But its obvious they will be draged into the NC game by boosters and refs. Sad world we live in. I cant get a break in this town, yet refs get free blow jobs. Guess I will have to make my break by breaking this story in a few years.

By: Grunts: The South “Won’t” Rise Again? « Perpetual Notions

Grunts: The South “Won’t” Rise Again? « Perpetual Notions — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:53:14 +0000

By: CAM

CAM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:00:37 +0000

Well, I guess the SEC decided that these so-called refs needed to reflect on their ability to call games after all. Kudo’s to the SEC!!

But my guess is, that if the exact plays were called in Hogs’s favor, this thread would still be posted….only on from the Gator board.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:50:34 +0000

Marc, are you serious??? One side of the ball is over the end of the yard line, not 3 feet ahead where they spotted it. I’m sorry but there is absolutely no way you can argue that that call was the correct one, its completely obvious in the picture. It doesn’t matter where the TV lines were, thats not even the point of the arguement. THE BALL IS 3 FEET AHEAD OF WHERE IT CAME DOWN, thats the arguement. Open your eyes.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:16:48 +0000

Dave, you’ve missed the point. Referees excluded, Florida’s not in the game. The missed oportunities you mentioned should have contributed to a blowout by the Hogs. At 10-3 Florida kicked a 51 yard FG on 4th and 22. Only, the play clock had expired. They should have beed pentalized 5 yds and forced to punt. That play alone kept the Gators in the game. The late hit on Dennis Johnson that wasnt called, the offensive pass interference in the end zone that wasnt called, along with the calls in the 4th quarter that have been documented were the difference. Oh and by the way, Arkansas sacked Tebow 6 times. You will never make me believe that the Gator o-line didn’t hold and get away with it at least once. They seemed to have no way of protecting Tebow otherwise.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:58:11 +0000

I guess you did not see the offensive pass interference that was called defensive pass interferfernce lets take a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO78BDleQjA

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:36:00 +0000

Good Lord, enough of the whining already. The only really bad call was the PF that moved the ball from the 18 yard line to the 10. Chances are the gators score anyway.
OTOH, if you don’t miss two FGs and Mallett hits his wide open WRs in the endzone, twicw mind you, then all this is moot. Arky had their chances.

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:53:46 +0000

Marc,

The blue line you referred to marks the 20 yd line (red zone)and has nothing what-so-ever to do with the first down marker. If I remember this play correctly, it was 3rd down on Tebow’s run and had they not incorrectly give Fla the first down, it would have/should have been 4th and 1 yard to go. This coupled with the other terrible calls/no calls resulted in Arkansas getting jobbed (again).

By: Summitt Boy

Summitt Boy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:13:26 +0000

Not the point Marc, the refs spot the ball totally wrong and that the other calls against ark (and not called against fla) are unexcusable! All I can say is get those refs out of the sec, not just b/c of the ark/fla game but also the lsu/ga game. Send ‘em back to officiating high school games so they can get the basics of the game back down!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:39:50 +0000

Misread the argument, sorry. So that makes it 2nd and 1…you think Tebow can get the yard on 2nd down? If they marked it as you would have liked them to, there probably wouldnt have been anytime left for that hook and ladder play. Game over.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:30:00 +0000

who cares where the line is. The ball was not spotted where he was down… That’s the issue.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:57:15 +0000

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that was not a mystery yard. The blue and yellow lines on tv were not in the correct location. If you look (you will have to watch the game as i dont think its shown in the pictures) at where the line of scrimmage markers are, they are a yard in front of the blue line which marks the line of scrimmage on tv. It was a tv mistake, not a mistake by the refs.

By: Eric Bennett commits | Hog Database

Eric Bennett commits | Hog Database — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:36:39 +0000

[...] all the excitement over dogging Houston Nutt and crying over Florida we seem to have forgotten about the newest member of the Razorback [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:24:17 +0000

Those official have been suspended!

By: C Cook

C Cook — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:04:54 +0000

In the interests of full disclosure, YES, I am a Razorback fan – as I’ve spent most of my life in AR. I do own property in Florida too and have been a Gators fan for a number of years and happily cheer them to victory any time they are not playing the Hogs! I’m a huge fan of Tim Tebow and think he may be the most complete college player of our time.

Personally, I think Florida would have driven the field and scored the tying TD with or without the PI or PF call. I don’t have any doubt that they are the best team in football. Both of those calls were bad though. If Florida had to actually earn the length of the field, they don’t have time to make the winning FG, so the outcome of the game is potentially changed. A shootout in overtime would have been an extremely exciting finish.

Beyond that, many people will say Florida only won because of the calls. We’ll never know. I think it’s already cost the Gators some votes. I also think the players would have preferred to have won it on the field. But a win’s a win – and if they go on to take another national crown, they will have earned that. Still a lot of games to be played.

By: jackson

jackson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:27:12 +0000

What are you going to do if we don’t stop complaining that SEC refs are making it easier for #1 Ranked FL to sweep the SEC and make it to another title?
You gonna sick St. Tebow on us? That would make quite the Prayer Circle wouldn’t it? No, it wouldn’t because people make decisions that determine the outcome of games. Players do and so do refs and the refs blatantly overlooked a couple of plays. FL didn’t beat AR. AR beat themselves because they missed 2 field goals. They stomped beloved St Tebows ass and I hope that fucker gets his ass knocked out again.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:23:52 +0000

about as stupid as you dod last year I imagine, oh except its expected to be a good game at their field, not a blow out at your like it was last year so tell me again how stupdi were you last year when you lost? Oh thats right you just got beat by an Ole mIss team that was better than you.

By: HogfAN1

HogfAN1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:55 +0000

You just cant stand it that you won by the refs cheating, that you didnt win the game fair and square. Your the cry baby boy…..waaa….waaa….lol……your champion gators arent all that. we should have won that game by 14 points. So why dont you shut your mouth and go away

By: rabbit

rabbit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:02:26 +0000

Agree. It takes a big person to admit that.