Ritter didn't relay the infraction correctly. Didn't he say offsides? Either way, the aggies were coached to immediately move if a Bama player jumps. They didn't have much to lose if it was called on TAMU. I just hope the line judge is told the call was incorrect due to the reaction of the TAMU players. It was a sell job and Ritter should have been more conscious of that fact.
It cannot be an offside
before the snap. They whistled and stopped the action because they
judged that D mouvement startled O. A defensive player inside the neutral zone before the snap is not an infraction.
I agree that it was a bad call. D mouvement was not that deep and direct towards the O player to make him move. It should have been called a false start.
Anyway, it was a referee judgement and we should take it as it was. Referees are sometimes good sometimes bad, but
usually if they are bad they are bad for all.
When I played rugby in my youth, they always coached us to play above all, and if a referee call determined a L it was our fault that we put ourselves in that position. "If we are well ahead of them, no ref can save them"..... words of my coach at the times