Covington Douglas was Robbed

put that bottle down bro.  are you from Velma? that operator more than likely was.  CD got shafted

I'm not from Covington Douglas and could care less who won that game but you obviously have not watched the final plays. Check it out on Skordle. Wouldn't say the officials lost the game but they 100% messed up that last play and gave Velma an extra play.   

Anyone know around what time in the game the offensive targeting was? or the CD coach shoving the player?

I will say no one knows how the coach interacted with that official. Did the official warn the coach? Was there a sideline warning earlier in the game?
I don’t know what the coach was saying to make the official throw a flag but maybe he didn’t say anything and ran out onto the field. Either ways flag was thrown and the official had his reasons and probably could articulate why a flag was thrown.

2:44:46 is when the VA kid got pushed down the targeting was at 2:47:13

This is Brian Smith (the coach at Covington-Douglas) - after reading all of these posts, I wanted to mention a few things.  But please lets move on from this.

1.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, some on here has said that this loss is on me.  That's fine if you feel that way, I would rather the loss be on me instead of the CD players feeling like the loss is on them.  If I don't get a flag thrown on me during the clock issue, then the 2 seconds wouldn't have been put on.  I honestly don't know why the 2 seconds were put on the clock because the white hat never came over to explain anything to me.  I was on the field yelling "start the clock, the clock should be running", I was not cussing at the officiating crew (at that time anyway) I was simply trying to get the clock to start as we are sacking their QB.  If any of you think you would just sit there and do nothing during that situation then we are all lying to ourselves.  Coaches fight for their kids and they fight for their team to be treated fairly.  My emotions are always running a little "Hot" during a game, especially one of this magnitude.

2.  If the clock would've started on time like it should have, the game would've went to Overtime.  We sacked the QB after about 6 or 7 seconds went by, there was still receivers in the end zone that wouldn't have made it back to the LOS, got set and then got the 4th down play off.  Who knows what would've happened in Overtime, we will never know.  

3.  Tip of the hat to Velma, they never panicked when they were down 30-14 and again when they were down 44-30.  They kept fighting and kept answering.  When Velma scored on the first play of the 4th quarter to make it 44-38 I knew the momentum was changing.  We had a #4 Hooten go down last week vs Okeene, had #18 leave in the 1Q vs Velma for a concussion, one of our OL/DL #32 didn't return for the 2nd half and then had #7 banged up throughout the game.  Not making excuses, just saying we were running out of weapons and I knew that Velma's team depth was strong and they were literally wearing us down.  We were trying to hang on.  I don't feel that I got conservative in the 4th, but more so Velma caught fire and we couldn't keep up. 

4.  I hate that our season ended this way, but we are slowly moving on from it.  On the other hand, Velma is a dang good team with a ton of weapons.  They have a legit shot of being in the State Championship game.  Coach Norton is a guy that I have gotten to know over the past few years and he is a great guy.  The Velma players are well coached, they play extremely hard and were great sportsman.  It was a hard fought/clean game for 48 minutes and frankly its a game where neither team deserved to lose.  Good luck and I promise you that Covington-Douglas will be back next year making some noise in Class B - Division 2.

LOL so was I, that's why I keep saying the same thing. Sounds like you were about as good at being a referee as you are at these forums LOL . I obviously don't care about it like you do you are clearly from Velma but you keep being wrong and making up stuff  

So you’re saying there’s a chance.

Wait…you said you kept the time and thats what good back judges do to now you're saying you didn’t keep time the entire game. Brrruuuh. ALL the officials should have been aware of the time, the situation, etc. I woulda been on the mic saying 10 seconds letting everyone know…. Depending on if the clock is in front of me or behind me tells whether I’m watching it or not. If it’s in front I’m looking at it, if it’s behind me I’m not turning my back on players especially when you have two official with the new mechanics (referee and umpire) that would be looking at the clock.

(1) they had to stop the clock because there was an issue
(2) there was a penalty which would stop the clock

Now you weren’t there. I wasn’t there. I didn’t officiate the game and I don’t know any members on the crew that officiated the game. We’re just speculating here and we’re all probably wrong. It’s easy for us to “Monday Morning Quarterback” this thing.