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Hardman files complaint about missed calls to SWAC
NATE OLSON/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Arkansas-Pine Bluff was ruined by special teams miscues last Saturday night in a 14-13 loss to Southern.
Upon reviewing the game tape on Sunday, UAPB Coach Lee Hardman found three more costly errors, but those mistakes were made by the game's officials not by the players.
Hardman said assistant head coach Roger Totten noticed, while reviewing the tape, that the Jaguars had 12 players on the field for three plays in-a-row, with 4:27 to go in the game.
Hardman filed a complaint with Southwestern Athletic Conference Football Officials Supervisor George Coleman on Tuesday and over-nighted a tape of the game to Coleman to review on Wednesday.
"All I'm trying to get is ... the officials need to be professionals and not make mistakes that are going to hurt a team," Hardman said. "I know they aren't going to replay the game, or give us the game or anything like that, but at least they need to be made aware and need to be reprimanded in some form. That's just a bad, bad situation to be put in. There is no way the officials should not see that when it happens three times in-a-row.
"That's a serious ballgame. We go from 1-1 in the conference to 0-2. It really put our backs against the wall."
UAPB faced a 4th-and-4 play at midfield and got down to the 22-yard line after running back Phillip Doolin took a pitch and threw a pass to wide receiver Korea McKay.
Hardman said the first of the three infractions came soon after that first down was made.
The penalties were not called and UAPB, after a five-yard illegal substitution penalty, ran the ball three times setting up a 4th-and-3 play at the Southern 13-yard line.
Hardman called on senior kicker Aaron Wall to kick a 31-yard field goal with just over two minutes to play that would have given UAPB the lead. However, Wall missed the field goal.
After seeing the tape, Hardman is wondering what might have been if one of the three penalties had been called. A defensive team is penalized for having 12 men on the field by giving the offense 10 yards and an automatic first down.
"We would have been inside the 10, definitely so," Hardman said. "Yeah, it (the no-calls) made a big difference. We would have been 1st-and-10 on the 10 instead of 4th-and-3 on the 13.
"(Roger) Totten told me about it, and I wouldn't watch it (the tape) last night (Monday) because I was so mad."
Coleman said he would review the tape when he received it and would contact Hardman with his opinion of the plays in question. But he declined to reveal what punishment, if any, would be dolled out to the seven officials if it was determined they had indeed missed the calls.
"I will not divulge to the press what action is taken," Coleman said. "It is not a matter of public record.
"I will review the tape, and I will tell him if his accusation was correct or not."
Gulf South Conference Director of Football Officials Billy Johnson said in his NCAA Division II conference, where just six officials are used instead of the seven deployed in 1-AA, blatant missed calls like those Hardman is alleging are dealt with harshly.
Johnson said that members of his crew that miss fundamental calls like the extra-player penalty, would be reprimanded for missing it once, suspended one game for missing it twice and suspended two games for missing it three plays in-a-row.
"That is a basic call to make sure both teams are playing on a level playing field," Johnson said. "You can start with 10 guys, but you can't have 12 out there.
"My guys (officials) may only be able to count to 11, but they know if there is one more left over after that. You have seven guys counting on each play. There is no way they should have missed that. That is inexcusable."
Southern Coach Pete Richardson said he was unaware of Hardman's objection.
"I don't know anything about that," he said. "I don't have any comment on it because I don't know anything about it."
UAPB and Southern were both flagged for having an extra man on the field during the course of the game, and Richardson said he emphasized to his players to be conscious about how many players were on the field from that point forward.
"We aren't deliberately going out there and doing something like that (using 12 players)," Richardson said.
Hardman said he believes Richardson and that it was an innocent mistake that the officials missed.
"I wouldn't think another coach would cheat like that," Hardman said. "I just wouldn't want to think that."
Hardman files complaint about missed calls to SWAC
NATE OLSON/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Arkansas-Pine Bluff was ruined by special teams miscues last Saturday night in a 14-13 loss to Southern.
Upon reviewing the game tape on Sunday, UAPB Coach Lee Hardman found three more costly errors, but those mistakes were made by the game's officials not by the players.
Hardman said assistant head coach Roger Totten noticed, while reviewing the tape, that the Jaguars had 12 players on the field for three plays in-a-row, with 4:27 to go in the game.
Hardman filed a complaint with Southwestern Athletic Conference Football Officials Supervisor George Coleman on Tuesday and over-nighted a tape of the game to Coleman to review on Wednesday.
"All I'm trying to get is ... the officials need to be professionals and not make mistakes that are going to hurt a team," Hardman said. "I know they aren't going to replay the game, or give us the game or anything like that, but at least they need to be made aware and need to be reprimanded in some form. That's just a bad, bad situation to be put in. There is no way the officials should not see that when it happens three times in-a-row.
"That's a serious ballgame. We go from 1-1 in the conference to 0-2. It really put our backs against the wall."
UAPB faced a 4th-and-4 play at midfield and got down to the 22-yard line after running back Phillip Doolin took a pitch and threw a pass to wide receiver Korea McKay.
Hardman said the first of the three infractions came soon after that first down was made.
The penalties were not called and UAPB, after a five-yard illegal substitution penalty, ran the ball three times setting up a 4th-and-3 play at the Southern 13-yard line.
Hardman called on senior kicker Aaron Wall to kick a 31-yard field goal with just over two minutes to play that would have given UAPB the lead. However, Wall missed the field goal.
After seeing the tape, Hardman is wondering what might have been if one of the three penalties had been called. A defensive team is penalized for having 12 men on the field by giving the offense 10 yards and an automatic first down.
"We would have been inside the 10, definitely so," Hardman said. "Yeah, it (the no-calls) made a big difference. We would have been 1st-and-10 on the 10 instead of 4th-and-3 on the 13.
"(Roger) Totten told me about it, and I wouldn't watch it (the tape) last night (Monday) because I was so mad."
Coleman said he would review the tape when he received it and would contact Hardman with his opinion of the plays in question. But he declined to reveal what punishment, if any, would be dolled out to the seven officials if it was determined they had indeed missed the calls.
"I will not divulge to the press what action is taken," Coleman said. "It is not a matter of public record.
"I will review the tape, and I will tell him if his accusation was correct or not."
Gulf South Conference Director of Football Officials Billy Johnson said in his NCAA Division II conference, where just six officials are used instead of the seven deployed in 1-AA, blatant missed calls like those Hardman is alleging are dealt with harshly.
Johnson said that members of his crew that miss fundamental calls like the extra-player penalty, would be reprimanded for missing it once, suspended one game for missing it twice and suspended two games for missing it three plays in-a-row.
"That is a basic call to make sure both teams are playing on a level playing field," Johnson said. "You can start with 10 guys, but you can't have 12 out there.
"My guys (officials) may only be able to count to 11, but they know if there is one more left over after that. You have seven guys counting on each play. There is no way they should have missed that. That is inexcusable."
Southern Coach Pete Richardson said he was unaware of Hardman's objection.
"I don't know anything about that," he said. "I don't have any comment on it because I don't know anything about it."
UAPB and Southern were both flagged for having an extra man on the field during the course of the game, and Richardson said he emphasized to his players to be conscious about how many players were on the field from that point forward.
"We aren't deliberately going out there and doing something like that (using 12 players)," Richardson said.
Hardman said he believes Richardson and that it was an innocent mistake that the officials missed.
"I wouldn't think another coach would cheat like that," Hardman said. "I just wouldn't want to think that."
