SPI1 on TM4c123G PortF not working

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Hi, so I have a RTC on SPI1 and on Port F.  I am using an EK-tm4c123gxl. However I was only recieving 0x00 back. I looked on an oscilloscope and found that some of the pins weren't even firing.

I have already tried unlocking F0. 

How I initialise the SPI

void initTivaForRTC()
{
	UARTprintf("Setup RTC");
	SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_SSI1); // LCD
	SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_GPIOF); //LCD
	// unlock
	HWREG(GPIO_PORTF_BASE+GPIO_O_LOCK) = GPIO_LOCK_KEY;
	HWREG(GPIO_PORTF_BASE+GPIO_O_CR) |= GPIO_PIN_0;
	GPIOPinTypeGPIOOutput (GPIO_PORTE_BASE,  | GPIO_PORTE_BASE);
	GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PF2_SSI1CLK);
	GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PF0_SSI1RX);
	GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PF1_SSI1TX);
	GPIOPinTypeSSI(GPIO_PORT_F_BASE,
	               RTC_SCLK_PIN | RTC_MOSI_PIN | RTC_MISO_PIN);
	ROM_SSIConfigSetExpClk (SSI1_BASE, ROM_SysCtlClockGet (),
	                        SSI_FRF_MOTO_MODE_0, SSI_MODE_MASTER, 4000000, 8);
	ROM_SSIEnable (SSI1_BASE);
	while(SSIDataGetNonBlocking(SSI1_BASE, &ui32RcvDat))
					{
					}
	UARTprintf(".\n");
}

And then I toggle CS

#define RTC_SELECT 					GPIO_PORTE_DATA_R = ~RTC_CS_PIN
#define RTC_DESELECT 				GPIO_PORTE_DATA_R |= RTC_CS_PIN

And then I communicate to it using:

void rtc_setup(void) // This function to setup
{
    RTC_SELECT;
    rtc_spi(0x04);
    RTC_DESELECT;
}

static uint32_t rtc_spi(u_char data)
{
	uint8_t j = rtcIndex;
	UARTprintf("0x%02x ", data);
	SSIDataPut(SSI1_BASE, data);

	while(SSIBusy(SSI1_BASE))
		{
		}

	SSIDataGet(SSI1_BASE, &rtcRecBuf[j]);
	rtcIndex++;
	return rtcRecBuf[j];
}

Any ideas why this could not be working? Thanks in advance.