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After brief explanation on Alabama-USC play, SEC Officiating’s Twitter handle hammered by fans
By Andrew Olson
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When the SEC announced the official SEC Officiating Twitter account this offseason, people could not help but joke that the replies were going to be wild when the account addressed questionable calls and plays. That was the case when the account chimed on a play in question during Saturday’s Alabama at South Carolina game.
A tweet explaining why a South Carolina red zone run wasn’t reviewed for a possible touchdown has received a whopping 610 replies. Some replies are about the play in the question while others are just to complain about SEC officiating in general and accusing the refs of being biased. Here’s a small sample of what fans are tweeting to the SEC Officiating account:
https://twitter.com/JaxFryburger/status/1172999193436332033
The one you need to worry about isn't that one, it's the Barmore ejection for targeting. It met none of the definitions. Barmore came in with his hands up trying to deflect the pass if he couldn't get to the QB. If DL can't do that, we have a problem for all teams and their DLs.
— Jess Nicholas (@TideFansJessN) September 14, 2019
Everyone is whining about that call even though he was down yet no one says a word about the Bama TD called out of bounds.
— David Silver (@davidlsil1961) September 15, 2019
Reverse the teams and Bama gets a review! This is horrible
— Brett Campbell (@Bcampbell15) September 14, 2019
There’s no way that’s targeting on corker. Fix ur employees
— Jaden Basham (@Basham39) September 14, 2019
Yeah, good luck explaining this one away: pic.twitter.com/wrVUAOvGwo
— Brooke (@wareagleblonde) September 14, 2019
What about the terrible holding call?
— Bill ??XRP? MAGA????Geaux Tigers (@billfrlsu) September 14, 2019
So they reviewed this play? His foot is in and Tua was robbed of his sixth TD pass pic.twitter.com/y8C0P0zYgs
— Mr Undrafted (@TJ6386) September 15, 2019
— Jacob Wise (@JacobWise0) September 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/dsgmusic88/status/1173000182293811200
https://twitter.com/KirbyApprentice/status/1173000256084226048
People are seriously salty that the game wasn't stopped to confirm a play that was clearly going to be confirmed. South Carolina didn't get a free timeout and somehow that's bad officiating. This is beyond parody
— Bama ? (@TuaIsGOAT) September 15, 2019
Keep bama at the top… I mean that’s your goal right?
— Jacob (@scjacob81) September 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/braileymusic/status/1173079662022541313
Only problem is his knee was NOT down. Clowns. ? Keep running interference for Bama and watch them get drilled in CFP w a neutral crew.
— Chris Dunlap ?? (@ChrisDunlap1) September 15, 2019
Lol I'm watching in slo-mo and I can't tell! Come on.
Course the difference is I'm not biased.
— Oculus Reparo ? (@PFlat2) September 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/MichaelPianella/status/1173002636414652416
You can try to make excuses for your incompetent referees but everyone knows it should have been reviewed. Sad thing is it was just one of many bad calls and there was clear and concerted Alabama bias all game long. Shame on you.
— William Harley (@willbharley) September 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/3jmt96/status/1173029648638328832
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
