Texas' blowout wins against Michigan and Oklahoma don't look as impressive now. Both those teams are tanking fast and will be unranked after the weekend. When you take those off the board, Texas has wins against teams like UL Monroe and something called UTSA. The only ranked team left on their schedule is Texas A&M. They somehow don't play Bama, TN, or LSU.
Ok guys enough of the Texas bash. Long season to go. Ewers looked awful had a bad night and not the same since his injury. Do they have elite players, yes and a lot of them. Can they be there in the end yes will they, never know college football changes on a dime. There is a lot of inconsistency with the top teams week to week. The playoffs will be interesting for sure. Is Texas dead? No and imo Manning will be the starter before the year is out. Many a top rank team has lost, imo it is the worst position to be in during the season bc every team plays you like it’s the championship. End of day tough loss but I am sure Bevo and team will be back.
Even the most egregious call doesn’t deserve that. In one way the refs need to know they blew it, that said that was not classy and uncalled for. I think UT played admirably in the second half, they didn’t quit.
Texas has a great team and they have as good a chance as anyone. It's hard to tell, though, exactly how good they are now that Michigan and Oklahoma have been exposed as unranked teams. It's possible that Georgia may be the only ranked team Texas plays in the regular season. That's hard to believe given that they are in the SEC. I do love seeing "Eight win" Sark stare at that Denny's menu that he grips like a security blanket when things go south. Whatever the question is, the answer is apparently not written there.
I think like any team when things started going wrong in that first half the question is always how bad is this going to get. Well it was a cascade of errors they could just not fix.
SEC also said they will further review the unsportsmanlike conduct of the fans for throwing water bottles onto the field, probably meaning a fine to the program. The initial call was terrible, but was reversed and ultimately had no bearing on the outcome of the game.
But they play Kentucky!
I don't disagree that the fans behavior was awful, it has happened before and it will happen again, still just not a good look. I know I am railing on the officials, but with modern technology, their errors are either embarrassing or on purpose. It is just getting ridiculous and part of what you saw is the frustration being voiced in a very unclassy way. I am actually surprised at times we don't see more of this anger. It is not right, I am not condoning it in any way. That said, name one week where there is not an egregious penalty that does affect the game. IMO, Texas was just not destined to win this one, you have games like that so ultimately the call didn't matter, but on the other hand, the delay, the controversial ruling, the tension caused, it does affect games IMO. Human error is one thing, but we now have technology that can review just about anything, you know this call was that awful when in the same statement the SEC is condemning fan behavior, they chastise the call. My question is why is that call happening in the first place. 105,000 people live all saw it the same way plus the millions of viewers, yet 1 official is that stupid? It borders on impossibility.
What gets me with the officials is when they are looking right at a play and throw a flag but then pick up the flag without any explanation. If you call PI or holding while looking right at it, what could possibly change your mind to pick the flag up? Nothing new has happened. If you called it, stick with the call.
? End of day, the whole game was an embarassment to put behind you.
Stick with a call that's obviously in error? Why not correct a mistake that could be a game changer?
I think he is talking about the ones that are obviously correct, then they pick up the flag. The worst ones ever are the blatant holding calls (whether at the line or defensive holding in secondary). I swear, I have seen more of both picked up this year then ever before and usually they are game changing moments. Even worse are the blatant ones with NO flag! Not to speak for Doug, but I took it as they pick it up when obvious foul.
I guess I'm not sure how it is an obvious error. If the ref is looking straight at it and throws the flag, and nothing else happens, what influences them to change their minds? Did they get wiser or have better eyesight after throwing the flag? Many PI and holding calls are subjective to begin with. You could call them on every single play. If the ref calls it and there is nothing else brought to their attention - like the ball being tipped - the ref has no apparent reason to change the call. I can't understand how it is PI one second and then not.