Let’s Talk Officiating

Jason Autrey and his crew needs to be removed from officiating SEC games. Twice now he has HORRIBLY called an important Alabama game. He’s a public works director in Florida. Has never played a down of football. He started out as the clock operator in Middle School games and somehow got a spot as an umpire. He once said "It was probably the worst officiated game ever. I had no idea what I was doing. At the same time, it was probably the best experience of my life”. Then he started officiating in the Sun Belt conference and would fill in for the SEC. He has even said reffing is not a career but a hobby.

I know everyone likes to scream “REC” and all that but Autrey hasn’t just effected Bama. His crew is the same one who called the Nix spiked ball an incomplete pass against Ark in 2020. His crew missed multiple targeting calls to Bryce last year against Tennessee AND was the crew who lost track of what down it was and had to actually go to video review to figure it out. Of course everyone knows about last nights horrible officiating called both ways. There’s also been complaints of his crews officiating by other conferences.

Obviously officials don’t get every call right, but surely we can do better than this.