[h1]Slive & Gold: The Root of SEC's Troubles[/h1]
Posted Nov 05, 2009 3:10PM By
Clay Travis (
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Last week
Mike Slive, the Montgomery Burns of the SEC, threatened
Lane Kiffin with a suspension and rewrote the SEC policy when it comes to commenting on officiating. All season, Slive has been besieged by officiating errors, coaches sniping at one another, and the continuing onslaught of media coverage having a brand new television contract and two top-ranked teams has brought.
Now, Slive (pictured right) is backed into a corner. Just a few days after Slive announced his new policy on officiating,
Urban Meyer teed off on officiating once more, taking a shot at the non-call on a late hit that Georgia delivered to Florida quarterback
Tim Tebow.
"That should have been a penalty, in my opinion," Meyer said, "Obviously, it should have been. You've got to protect quarterbacks. That's the whole purpose. It's right in front of the referee."
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And then, not to be outdone,
Lane Kiffin took a swipe at Meyer's comments on officiating. "Urban Meyer? Criticized the officials, wow, that will be interesting," Kiffin said, "We'll see." Not content with a sarcastic aside, Kiffin also commented on the
Brandon Spikes situation: "Yeah, I saw it on replay, it was pretty bad ... Obviously he'll discipline his team. Or not."
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