SWAC Reprimands Grambling's Broadway for Critical Comments on Officials

The SWAC conference office has reprimanded Grambling head football coach Rod Broadway for criticizing officiating in the Tigers Oct. 10 game against Alabama A&M. In case you were wondering about what he actually said…

“We had one touchdown called back on a bogus call,” he said. “We had another one that hit a guy in the leg. There were four calls that were touchdown-saving calls — which is, you know, unheard of in this day and time. You can see one of those calls during the course of a game. But to have four calls during the course of a game that saves touchdowns? One was a fumble on the quarterback when we hit him. One was a punt that hit the guy on the leg and we scooped it up. The other one was a touchdown run. There were some calls, you know, that I thought were bogus, to say the least. But our kids kept playing. They played right through that.”

I can understand why the conference doesn’t want their officials publicly berated by a well-known coach, because it enhances an already-strong perception that black college football officiating is poor.

But it’s strange; the game was at Grambling, and of the nine penalties called in what eventually morphed into a 21-point blowout favoring the Tigers, six of them went against the Bulldogs. Maybe Broadway was just warming up for big games against UAPB and Southern in the Bayou Classic.

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