is taking your helmet off not a penalty???

Kornheiser and Wilbon are some of the best in the business, and are very reasonable, imho. I don’t believe pot-stirring is PTI’s M.O. — that is left to Jim Rome and a couple others.

And I read that post over at RBR this afternoon. Most his interpretation is sound except for the game ending part, which you touched on, and how the penalty would be enforced IF it was called and IF Tennessee had been in a position to advance the blocked kick.

I would have gone over and tried to set him straight, but you know my policy on such things.

Great game.

But, that comes from so many years of Fulmer I suppose. Even with this “missed” call thing, I still like to see us out there being talked about. Especially since it dovetails with the team actually doing much better than last year. 4 losses by twenty points. We lost to Bama, Florida, and Georgia by 20 a piece last year I do believe.

I wonder who will win if Bummer plays Flawrida in the SEC championship. The referees will have some serious decisions to make. Will they make crappy calls for the benefit of the Textbook Bandits or Tebow’s Terrors? And I wonder how long it will take before the Crimson Face has to forfeit this game?

…yet.

Tennessee is the most relevant 3-4 team in the history of college football right now, we’re in the news every day even when our play isn’t good enough to have earned it. And as long as we’re in the news for Kiffin’s mouth and not drugs/arrests/primary violations, I think it’s been helpful for recruiting.

If Slive actually decides to make a real example out of Kiffin one of these days and bring out harsher penalties, maybe then it’ll be an issue. But when Kiffin started talking we had absolutely nothing to be happy about as a program, and people latched on. Now people are latching on on the heels of heartbreak, while also seeing all the promise this team/staff could have. His mouth and our team keep gaining momentum…the real question is, if the team eventually gets to the point where the on-field product makes us relevant, will Kiffin keep talking then? Is he running is mouth because he thinks he has to, or because that’s really who he is?

I am laughing at you.

Clock expiration doesn’t end the play. That ball is still live, and Cody reaching for his helmet pretty well guarantees that the lid came off during a live play, which is by rule a penalty. It was Bama’s subsequent recovery that made it unenforceable (hence the better defense), but there was enough time between the de-helmeting and the recovery for the official to throw the flag.

I’m not concerned about the outcome there. The Vols have far bigger things to look at for reasons they lost.

A much bigger problem on this play is that only one player is actually looking at the ball – that Alabama guy in the middle. The two closest players (both Vols) could have gone for it. Maybe they’d have had a chance if one picked it up and the other blocked. Maybe.

Genius Alabama fans! Apparently in Alabama, Doug Flutie’s hail mary didn’t count because the clock had expired before the ball was caught!

is that no one besides McClain sees the ball…Everyone thinks its been imbedded in Cody’s stomach…

He’s actually really really good. One of the best in the business.

You need to re-evaluate some of your personal issues. That’s pretty vile.

And for the record, Nick Saban did lie. It’s well documented.

but he’s not totally clear in his explanation. The ball could have been recovered by Tennessee, even after the ball moved beyond the line of scrimmage. i explain it on this post at 7:51

Then that settles it.

Let it be written. Let it be known.

Well, eventually somebody was going to play us close. Just about every championship or great team that I can remember had some very close calls. Arkansas really should have beaten Florida a few weeks ago. Florida needed help from the refs to stay in it. Last year they lost to Ole Miss. And I seem to recall that in 98 Arkansas had you guys at the end of the rope. All they needed to do was run the clock out, and they fumble.

At least when we were hit by a series of unfortunate events (Ingram loses his first fumble ever, defensive collapse, and losing an onside kick), we manned up and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by blocking a kick. Sure, we have some issues to work out but I think most Bama fans are very optimistic about the rest of the season.

Perhaps the Tennessee coaches should worry more about their decision making and inability to kick a field goal than magical flags and favoritism (which there is absolutely no evidence to support in the case of officiating in Alabama games).