In a FOX Sports column last Saturday, former NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira said the Southeastern Conference has "lost almost all credibility" with respect to it's officiating.
Pereira refers to two SEC games: Alabama-Tennessee Saturday, and two weeks before with Auburn-Mississippi State.
In both cases, Pereira points out the refs "abused" the communications system to talk to somebody on the basis of calls being made.
Pereira asked the national college officiating coordinator about this, and he told Pereira no one else was supposed to be on that system.
"Bull."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Are you kidding me? THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, MIKE PEREIRA!!
You have a conference, right now, that the question isn't IF they make the playoff, but how many teams? And, right now, it's not implausible that if strength of opposition trumps them beating each other up, they could get ALL FOUR teams.
You think there isn't somebody at a few of these games that is "ensuring" a particular result?
And isn't it funny, Mr. Pereira, that they probably got that practice from your very former employer, the NFL?
And isn't it doubly funny that, starting this year, such communications with a central control office are now codified in NFL rules????
"But now it appears the SEC has someone that nobody else has -- a mystery
man. I’m not sure where he is, but he’s providing information to
the officials on the field. If the SEC denies it, they’re not telling
the truth."
What he's really saying: "That 'mystery man' is deciding games."
Maybe it's Goodell (lol)
ReplyDeleteAccording to a guy I know, Pereira is the one who said that the Patriots were filming in people's locker rooms, with a camera up a pole, and with a person wearing a press pass on the sideline. I wish that I could find an article about that, though.