I just thought it was odd that this is a story printed in July. Is there no other sports news to report?
Oh, yeah, no I agree it is odd, just saying what the usual purpose of such stories and typical reaction. Living in GA , the missed penalties and the refs in general at not topics I like to discuss, to soon here, maybe always will be?
Thanks. At one point the title was corrected to reflect that the play was to tie the game; it was like this for only a couple of posts.Here's the play for anyone confused by the title of the thread. The play in question is not the 2nd and 26 but the 4th down conversion to tie the game in the 4th....
It's CLOSE..... but if you focus on the Ball then it appears that Najee leaves his stance simultaneously with the snap.
But either way who cares? He got MUGGED in the Endzone and they didn't flag that either.
At one point, I posted a thread with about a dozen missed calls which favored UGA. They were pretty horrible, hands to the face, clotheslines, etc., not to mention Najee being decked in the EZ. (I think our resident official felt that the flag would have been thrown, if Ridley hadn't completed the TD anyway.) What you have to understand about rival fans, particularly UGA fans, is that they are going to ignore all those and anything indicating that they shouldn't have won. It's just wasted energy to argue with them. They lost, so they are going to obsess for a whole year, or, given their history, maybe decades...
My problem with it is they have all this technology and they still make the wrong call a lot of the time.
I think Mecole Hardman's TD catch that made it 20-7 is a good example of that. They reviewed that play and allowed it to stand. It looked to me like the rear edge of his foot was out of bounds at the Alabama 20 Yard Line.
Yep, there was no green between his shoe and the line which means he was touching it. Our resident college football official suggested his foot was “next to the line” whatever that means. There is no “next to the line”, he’s either touching it or he isn’t. That’s the main problem, there’s just too much room for interpretation.
People forget about that one. He was clearly out of bounds well before the end zone on that play and it was kind of pivotal because Alabama had a lot of momentum and a 3rd and long. Without that catch, good chance Alabama goes right back down the field on a short field with the RPO rhythm they found with Tua. With that catch but no score, Alabama could possibly hold them to a field goal. That one play was literally the only thing in the second half that saved UGA from very likely losing the game in regulation.
