… but I couldn’t resist this any longer. I tried, believe me, but all it did was give me more time to think about it. During that time, I found a relevance. This is from the SEC and WVU plays the SEC’s Auburn Thursday night … with an SEC officiating crew.

Take a peak, please, as my favorite moment of the college football season.

Your thoughts?

I watched it live and didn’t think a thing until I saw the replay when it looked — well, it looked intentional. He shuffles, finds the angle, sets his feet and lowers the book. Only later did I learn he was a star linebacker in high school and in college at Kentucky.

The SEC and teams involved see nothing wrong. 

“Garcia changes his direction just a tad, which ties up the umpire just a tad and makes it look a lot worse than it really was,” SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said.

“The umpire position amongst the officiating crew lends itself to more contact than any other official on the field. … We feel there was nothing else that needs to be read into it and it was a collision between a player and an official.”

So Hackett — no word if he’ll be in town Thursday night … I’m working on it — was cleared, but in now way is he in the clear. He probably never will.

“We told him, ‘Listen, you’ve got to use your flipper. You’ve got to use your forearm. But then you have to wrap up,’ ” Miles said. “We were disappointed in his effort, to be honest with you. We felt like he could knock them down a little bit.”