[Tuck4Bama]

The conspiracy theorists came out again Saturday after Alabama nose tackle/aircraft carrier Terrence Cody blocked a second field-goal attempt to secure the Crimson Tide's 12-10 win against Tennessee.

"He took his helmet off!" they screamed. "That's a 15-yard penalty! Tennessee should have gotten another kick!" (Agitated SEC and/or Bama haters typically use a lot of exclamation points.) ...............

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Because Alabama blocked and recovered the ball, Alabama had possession. The game can't end on a defensive penalty, but because of the possession change, Alabama wasn't on defense. We'll let SEC spokesman Charles Bloom take it from here.

"The foul for taking helmet off is a live ball foul treated as a dead-ball foul," Bloom wrote in an e-mail Saturday night. "That is, if it happens on a play where time does not expire then the penalty is enforced on the following play. However since the clock ran out on that play, then there is no next play, so there is no penalty to mark off."

Still, only a week after an Arkansas-Florida debacle that got an SEC crew suspended for three weeks, the conference could ill afford for another crew to miss such a clear call. It would have been nice if an official could have flagged Cody. Then referee Matt Austin could have explained to a national television audience why, despite the penalty on Cody, the game was still over.


Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/10/24/alabama-tennessee/index.html#ixzz0Uy1ojkMc

[Quack Attack]

Great topic Tuck. You know, the officiating in the PAC 10 is probably worse. I didn't know this until I debated the horrible officiating with a friend in the Notre Dame vs USC and Washington games but they were an all PAC 10 crew. They took the winning touchdown away from Washington in their game and tried to help the Irish with multiple chances down the stretch winning drive against USC. 2 Personal found penalties I thought were really bad calls.

There are going to be bad or questionable calls in every game. Hey, they are only human but still support instant replay especially on game deciding calls. I saw the bad call in the Florida game which killed the Razorbacks late in the game. I swore up and down that was not a personal foul...and it wasn't. I didn't see the call in the Alabama vs Tennessee game that this topic is referring to.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Quack Attack

Great topic Tuck. You know, the officiating in the PAC 10 is probably worse. I didn't know this until I debated the horrible officiating with a friend in the Notre Dame vs USC and Washington games but they were an all PAC 10 crew. They took the winning touchdown away from Washington in their game and tried to help the Irish with multiple chances down the stretch winning drive against USC. 2 Personal found penalties I thought were really bad calls.

There are going to be bad or questionable calls in every game. Hey, they are only human but still support instant replay especially on game deciding calls. I saw the bad call in the Florida game which killed the Razorbacks late in the game. I swore up and down that was not a personal foul...and it wasn't. I didn't see the call in the Alabama vs Tennessee game that this topic is referring to.

I saw the no call in the Alabama game. I thought it was correct Bama blocked and got the ball back, so it wouldn't give TN a new kick.