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Urban Meyer Fined $30k for Pointing Out How Bad SEC Refs Are

The Southeastern Conference stood its ground on coaches criticizing referees and fined Urbie 30 grrr ... even if he is exactly right about how horrible the zebras have been this year. ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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