SEC Booth Reviews are Out of Control

[arthurdawg]

I disagree. It is supposed to be for obviously missed calls. If it is obvious, it doesn't take long. It wasn't supposed to be about slowing it down to microseconds to see if a ball twisted slightly before being secured. The use of replay like they do it in college has jumped the shark. It’s ludicrous.

Did they initially call a TD and then overturn the TD? Or call it a fumble and then review?

 

[Elefantman]

Did they initially call a TD and then overturn the TD? Or call it a fumble and then review?

Called a fumble, and upheld on review.

 

[TideEngineer08]

They should have reviewed the Kirby Timeout in the Auburn game. The Auburn video boards were playing Kirby running down the sideline calling TO as he convinced the refs he was clapping. Crazy.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1977208553925755114

Someone help me understand what Kirby was thinking. They obviously were about to get a delay penalty. He was obviously calling for a timeout. How did he decide, hey I didn’t actually need the timeout, so I’m going to lie and say I was just clapping my hands?

It doesn’t make any sense. Unless he is, and this is quite possible, a sociopath.

 

[bamajas]

Someone help me understand what Kirby was thinking. They obviously were about to get a delay penalty. He was obviously calling for a timeout. How did he decide, hey I didn’t actually need the timeout, so I’m going to lie and say I was just clapping my hands?

It doesn’t make any sense. Unless he is, and this is quite possible, a sociopath.

In the presser postgame, he said he had warned the refs pre-game about AU defenders clapping and they needed to call flags on them. So he said he was saying, "They're clapping, stop, they're clappping" or something like that. That seems possible with what he was saying, but his hands still look like a TO motion to me

 

[TideEngineer08]

In the presser postgame, he said he had warned the refs pre-game about AU defenders clapping and they needed to call flags on them. So he said he was saying, "They're clapping, stop, they're clappping" or something like that. That seems possible with what he was saying, but his hands still look like a TO motion to me

Due to hearing loss, which went undiagnosed for several years, I am a fairly decent lip reader. I am almost certain he was screaming timeout in addition to clearly making the timeout signal.

Ok so maybe he was complaining of AU defenders clapping… but then he went off on the refs because they weren’t acknowledging the AU defenders clapping. And maybe he was mad about having to waste a timeout due to all of this. But they didn’t flag AU, and he still clearly called timeout, and the refs still didn’t charge Georgia with timeout or a delay of game.

Either way the refs completely botched it.

 

[KrAzY3]

In the presser postgame, he said he had warned the refs pre-game about AU defenders clapping and they needed to call flags on them. So he said he was saying, "They're clapping, stop, they're clappping" or something like that. That seems possible with what he was saying, but his hands still look like a TO motion to me

I'm no lip reader and it was obvious even to me he was saying timeout.

You can't turn "timeout" into "they're clapping", this isn't some cheap Chinese movie voice-over. I know roughly how many movements with a mouth it takes to make one or the other. It was obvious. He clearly repeated "timeout". Go ahead, test it yourself. Look in the mirror and say "clapping" then say "timeout", you'll notice it doesn't look the same.

That and he was doing the timeout signal repeatedly, that or he has some serious physical disability rendering him unable to make another gesture.

Edit: If I was a ref I'd ignore every timeout call Kirby makes from here on out, "Oh sorry I thought you said something about clapping".

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I'm no lip reader and it was obvious even to me he was saying timeout.

You can't turn "timeout" into "they're clapping", this isn't some cheap Chinese movie voice-over. I know roughly how many movements with a mouth it takes to make one or the other. It was obvious. He clearly repeated "timeout". Go ahead, test it yourself. Look in the mirror and say "clapping" then say "timeout", you'll notice it doesn't look the same.

That and he was doing the timeout signal repeatedly, that or he has some serious physical disability rendering him unable to make another gesture.

Edit: If I was a ref I'd ignore every timeout call Kirby makes from here on out, "Oh sorry I thought you said something about clapping".

Wait, did he seriously claim he was saying clapping while clapping?

 

[bamaga]

So... Did Georgia make a first down on the ensuing play?

No, they missed a FG. Not the point. O real bearing on the outcome of the game. Still never should have been allowed.

 

[KrAzY3]

Wait, did he seriously claim he was saying clapping while clapping?

I was only watching it live, so I didn't witness his later explanation but the argument he seemed to be making was that he was clapping to say they were clapping. Quite an odd thing to do if you believe it is disrupting your snap count and you don't want to call a timeout. But yeah...

I have absolutely no idea how he got away with that. None. It's like some sort of an SNL skit.

 

[Elefantman]

Imagine this: Auburn is going for the game winning FG. Kirby wants to ice the kicker by calling timeout just prior to the snap. The ball is snapped, the whistle blows, they miss the kick. Then Kirby claims he didn't call TO and the game should be over.

The SEC has to send a message and fine and/or suspend him for a game.

 

[JDCrimson]

I think he thought it was 4th down and then realized it was 3rd down.

Someone help me understand what Kirby was thinking. They obviously were about to get a delay penalty. He was obviously calling for a timeout. How did he decide, hey I didn’t actually need the timeout, so I’m going to lie and say I was just clapping my hands?

It doesn’t make any sense. Unless he is, and this is quite possible, a sociopath.

 

[colbysullivan]

Imagine this: Auburn is going for the game winning FG. Kirby wants to ice the kicker by calling timeout just prior to the snap. The ball is snapped, the whistle blows, they miss the kick. Then Kirby claims he didn't call TO and the game should be over.

The SEC has to send a message and fine and/or suspend him for a game.

This same crew gave the Barn a free field goal with no time left in the first half in 2019. We lost the game by 3 points…

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

No, they missed a FG. Not the point. O real bearing on the outcome of the game. Still never should have been allowed.

Nt

 

[RammerJammer14]

They should have reviewed the Kirby Timeout in the Auburn game. The Auburn video boards were playing Kirby running down the sideline calling TO as he convinced the refs he was clapping. Crazy.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1977208553925755114

After I saw this I was thinking, can you even imagine Saban pretending he didn’t call for a Time Out? It’s just not a thing that would ever happen. Kirby has some ingrained integrity issues.

 

[bamajas]

I'm no lip reader and it was obvious even to me he was saying timeout.

You can't turn "timeout" into "they're clapping", this isn't some cheap Chinese movie voice-over. I know roughly how many movements with a mouth it takes to make one or the other. It was obvious. He clearly repeated "timeout". Go ahead, test it yourself. Look in the mirror and say "clapping" then say "timeout", you'll notice it doesn't look the same.

That and he was doing the timeout signal repeatedly, that or he has some serious physical disability rendering him unable to make another gesture.

Edit: If I was a ref I'd ignore every timeout call Kirby makes from here on out, "Oh sorry I thought you said something about clapping".

I couldn’t tell what he was saying when I first saw the replay

I thought Freeze should’ve immediately taken one and just say he was clapping, but they might’ve ejected him for doing it

 

[22Musso22]