Officiating question
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No fluke. Just a poorly thought out rule. If the review determines "no targeting" overturning that part of the call they should also be able to say "clean hit" no penalty.
I don't know if this has been covered in the game thread or post game thread but am I the only one who thought this was a horribly officiated game?
I have been a college football fan for more years than I want to reveal and have NEVER blamed officiating for a loss, but I can tell you without equivocation the officiating today kept two TAMU drives alive that led to 14 points. I am almost ashamed to say this, but that was the worst officiated game I have ever witnessed.
Bingo. A player should not lead with his head and spear another player, but we might as well break out with the flags for flag football. I hate this rule. I am all about player safety within reason, but football is a violent game.
The rationale is actually pretty reasonable - unnecessary roughness penalties have never been reviewable. This is just the old "unnecessary roughness" penalty with the possibility of ejection if there was also "targeting". So, last year you would have seen the same flag (even though it should not have been thrown), but there would have been no chance of an ejection because "targeting" was not included in the rule book.
The NCAA decided to start ejecting players for targeting only, but they knew that there would be some bad calls (because there are bad calls in every game) and didn't want erroneous ejections. So they compromised - they added the ejection, but only for targeting, and they made it reviewable. Only the ejection/targeting is reviewable, not the unnecessary roughness call - but that has never been reviewable.
The NCAA decided to start ejecting players for targeting only, but they knew that there would be some bad calls (because there are bad calls in every game) and didn't want erroneous ejections. So they compromised - they added the ejection, but only for targeting, and they made it reviewable. Only the ejection/targeting is reviewable, not the unnecessary roughness call - but that has never been reviewable.
Which is why I've always said called penalties should be reviewed by the booth as well.
I still think that the A&M guy caught the ball out of bounds.....regardless of if Fulton forced him out....they never showed his feet...
I tend to agree. There have been worse individual calls, but this game, the officiating was consistently slanted, WAAY beyond what you could consider 'home cookin'".
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