Mississippi State pulled off another one today. Sylvester Croom has really stirred this team up and they are playing some football! The offense was off a little today but the defense dead-on. We took an early lead and kept it throughout the game. There are still those dumb mistakes, read penalties, which will go away with more experience and confidence.

The officials were fairly good today and I was about to give them a good grade until they missed a big call. UK did not score the touchdown, the ball carrier was down on a knee that was apparent to everyone in the stadium, was apparent on the Jumbotron, and was apparent on the news replays. It seems the only people who didn’t see were the officials. While it did not have an impact on the game, it was still a bad call.

As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I can accept some mistakes but these are simply too gross to let go. Given that there seem to be problems with officials at most every game, even those I see on TV, it makes me think that there are systemic problems in how the officials are trained. I know they all want to do a good job and, with few exceptions, they are not biased, so there must be a deeper problem.

Will anything be done? Of course not! Remember that referees are the only ones not allowed to be criticized about there job performance. Do we need video review during the game? I used to think not but given how clear this missed call was, I think it is time to let the refs use some tape reviews to correct some bad calls.