While You’re At It, Tyler Simmons was Onsides

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Well, looks like Barners got their wish, although the outcome isn’t going to change.

The decision to remove the longtime referee comes in the immediate wake of an SEC review of eleven complaints against Williamson and his crew during the Auburn-Georgia game earlier this month. According to sources, nine of those complaints were validated by conference officials. 

Yellowhammer News’ requests for comment from the Southeastern Conference went unreturned on Wednesday. 

Auburn’s matchup with Georgia included unusually high-profile penalty calls. 

Two sequences drew national attention: a late-second-quarter goal-line review that left both fan bases bereft, and a third-quarter sideline exchange in which Georgia coach Kirby Smart appeared to take a timeout before the play was ultimately reset without one being charged. 

Where’s this accountability anytime Alabama plays?

32 thoughts on “While You’re At It, Tyler Simmons was Onsides”

  1. I believe there is no such thing as karma. It’s a make-believe concept people use to make themselves feel better. HOWEVER, if anyone deserves an unlubricated cactus enema, it is Auburn.

  2. Shitty officiating by the SEC won’t change until the SEC Offices are moved out of Birmingham. Atlanta or Nashville is where they should be. We all know where TexAss wants them.

    • I agree wholeheartedly however, the league also must diversify their office and provide more support staff that represents the expanded 16 team league. Since the days of the Bear the league office has been Bama centric and Bear Bryant made sure that Bama football would be the league bellcow and the old boy network went along. It’s long overdue to change the league status quo that Bama and only Bama can be a dynasty and dominate multiple years. Sour grapes? To Bama yeah, maybe but I’ve seen a lot that of football since 1964 and without going through 60 years of Bama SEC birthright that’s been the running narrative, it’s time to get out of Hoover and most importantly get official on the field and in the relay booth who are impartial and outside of any team(Bama Barn) influence.

      • And once again I’m not anonymous, I have a profile , username and account. I just can’t get it to work. I’ve tried and much like the Auburn second half offense I’ve quit trying.

  4. Kirby was 100% calling a timeout and changed his mind. And Auburn fans have lost their mind over being cheated somehow, which is funny because so what if they made us take the timeout? The only bearing it would’ve had on the game is we wouldn’t have had that timeout later which we didn’t need anyways. We weren’t getting a delay of game there either way. We either got to run the next play like we did or we would’ve used a timeout. It had zero effect on the game.

    • Agreed. Do you think that the officials basically said, we’ll make this even by not flagging Aub with unsportsmanlike for clapping -and- we also won’t charge you the timeout due to our botched no call.

  6. We’ll probably never know the details of the 11 complaints, but it sure would be awesome if we did. Did they all come from Auburn, or were some of them from us? And is it just the head ref that’s suspended or other members of the crew? He couldn’t have been the only one throwing flags out there that night.

    As much attention as the goal-line fumble got, I have a hard time believing it was one of the 9 that were validated. It’s called a fumble on the field and there isn’t enough on camera to overturn it (sorry, Sean McDonough, the ball was dislodged before you say it was). Aren’t replays handled by the SEC “command center” (or whatever it’s called) anyway? The only criticism of this play that could’ve been validated is that the Georgia player was never down and the score should’ve immediately been 10-7.

    All the personal fouls / late hits that occurred on the ensuing drive seemed legit to me, but of course I’m biased.

    The non-timeout call is egregious. Watching the replay, Kirby’s mouth may be saying “they’re clapping”, but his hands are CLEARLY signaling timeout while the play clock has almost expired. The refs had blown the whistle and stopped play, so you’ve got to charge a timeout there. Take whatever tantrum is thrown by the coach and move on. Either that, or another ref runs up and says, “Yeah, the defense was clapping”, and you assess a penalty on Auburn. They can’t give us a delay of game penalty because they blew the whistle before the play clock expired. But giving us a timeout without charging one while assessing no penalty was wild (agreed with Sean McDonough on this one).

    The next craziest call to me was the blindside block call against Cash Jones. He probably concussed that Auburn player and I don’t mean to make light of it, but it looked clean to me. The player turns his head away from Cash at the last second, which makes it look worse, but Cash came at him from the front. It did look like there was some helmet-to-helmet contact but I’m not sure what the rules are for offensive targeting against a defense. I consider this a get back call for the timeout fiasco that had happened right before.

    I have no idea what the other 7 or 8 complaints could’ve been.

    • You are correct on Timeout-gate – the problem is that they did nothing! They can charge us the timeout and say “we’ll look for it next time”, or they can say “you’re right they are clapping” and penalize Auburn – but to do nothing was death. And it was very similar on the “fumble” – they just did “nothing” by refusing to award us the TD. It was a very poorly officiated and run game, the number and amount of replays (and their length) were ridiculous.
      This guy always seemed like a pretty good/even-handed referee to me (at least when compared to his “peers”), so not sure what happened, if he’s getting old, has some sh*tty members on his crew this year, etc….

  7. Wonder what happened to the crew that officiated our Texas game last year. I never saw them do another game after that but never heard anything about them either.

  9. Just two questions what state hosts the SEC office and what major football school is really close. Well that explains why only this example of horrible officiating costs someone their job. It just matters more…….if it affects a school in our state.

    • I agreee but as I mentioned in an earlier comment as long as Bama runs the league office nothing will happen to change existing status quo. ( I base my assertion on Bama running the league based upon history and current staffing. 80% Bama centric).

  10. wasn’t he the head zebra at the water bottle game last yr in austin?

  12. Is Yellowhammer News even a legit news source? Skeptical of everything and anything I see reported nowadays

    • I’ve seen other legit sources report it as well. Yeah, Yellowhammer sounds like some Auburn fan pretending to be a journalist.

  13. Since Ken Williamson has some free time, can we get him to love driving one of Cash Jones’s cement trucks through Auburn? Asking for Early Cuyler

  14. Fake news. The SEC has NOT announced this and only one news source…NO WHERE else is this being reported independent of Yellowhammer News…so consider the source.

  15. As many times as Them Dawgs have been hosed (both figuratively and literally) in the Crappiest Village over the decades, I do not give one single fart about how loud The Barners cry about anything. Ever.

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