Yep, ugly always can be identified by its ten-gallon hat and business address in Texas.
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"They tried to rob us with calls in this place."--Georgia coach Kirby Smart.
ESPN:
Initially, officials penalized Barron for pass interference, giving the ball back to the Bulldogs. Referee Matt Loeffler announced the call to the crowd and walked off the 15-yard penalty.
Texas fans booed the call while watching replays on the stadium's jumbotron. Some threw debris into the north end zone, stopping play for a few minutes. While staff members and security cleaned up the bottles, officials conferred again and reversed the call.
When Loeffler told Smart about the reversal on the sideline, the Georgia coach told him, "You can't do that! You can't do that! ... That's bulls---!"
"Now we've set a precedent that if you throw a bunch of stuff on the field and endanger athletes that you've got a chance to get your call reversed," Smart said. "And that's unfortunate because, to me, that's dangerous. That's not what we want, and that's not criticizing officials. That's what happened."
Smart said Loeffler suggested to him that the penalty was called on the wrong player -- that it should have been offensive pass interference against Smith.
"It took him a long time to realize that," Smart said.
In a statement released early Sunday morning, the SEC said officials "gathered to discuss the play, which is permitted to ensure the proper penalty is enforced."
That is what Texas does.
Texas fans booed the call while watching replays on the stadium's jumbotron. Some threw debris into the north end zone, stopping play for a few minutes. While staff members and security cleaned up the bottles, officials conferred again and reversed the call.
When Loeffler told Smart about the reversal on the sideline, the Georgia coach told him, "You can't do that! You can't do that! ... That's bulls---!"
"Now we've set a precedent that if you throw a bunch of stuff on the field and endanger athletes that you've got a chance to get your call reversed," Smart said. "And that's unfortunate because, to me, that's dangerous. That's not what we want, and that's not criticizing officials. That's what happened."
Smart said Loeffler suggested to him that the penalty was called on the wrong player -- that it should have been offensive pass interference against Smith.
"It took him a long time to realize that," Smart said.
In a statement released early Sunday morning, the SEC said officials "gathered to discuss the play, which is permitted to ensure the proper penalty is enforced."
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Barron told reporters that the delay in cleaning up the bottles on the field "most likely" helped in officials changing the call.To repeat: 1) The correct call was a non-call, which the officials made at the dangerous demand of Texas pigs. 2) As Kirby Smart said, "You can't do that!" Read the SEC's explanation, "ensure the proper penalty" was called. A 15-yarder rather than a five; even a change in who committed the penalty. But if a penalty was called, a penalty it must remain. There is no lawful mechanism to make a penalty a non-penalty. 3) The Texas pigs "most likely" caused the officials to make it a non-penalty.
