Pictorial Evidence of the Apparent Current Definition of Targeting

[December05]

Targeting



Not Targeting

Just in case anyone needed clarification.

 

[mdb-tpet]

I just don’t understand how this isn’t targeting. Jumps, drops head, launches into defenseless player’s helmet. What the heck?

 

[OconeeTide]

Did you see the OT play in Oregon and Penn st? dude hits with crown on qb running the ball, no targeting.
Please NCAA make it make sense....

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Irrespective of the definition of targeting and the consistency, or lack thereof, of its enforcement, the point of the rule really was to get people to stop using their helmets as a weapon. It hasn’t worked. It’s time to junk the rule and come up with something else…

 

[BamaNation]

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Targeting

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Not Targeting

Just in case anyone needed clarification.

the fact that they had 5 minutes to review the NOT Targeting one and didnt do so forever invalidates everything the SEC might say about targeting and proper reviews.

 

[22Musso22]

 

[teamplayer]

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Targeting

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Not Targeting

Just in case anyone needed clarification.

It's such a colossal joke. I can't watch replays, so I walk around whenever they do them, and the targeting rule and replays are the absolute worst.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Due to the speed of the game, I cut the on-field refs a bit of slack. They still should be better, but given how fast things happen, and with only a couple of tenths of a second to make a call, I get how they could miss some.

But how the review crew so often gets it wrong and/or inconsistently-enforced is beyond me. They have essentially infinite sight angles, all synched up and advanceable frame by frame, and an infinity of time. Yet they still mess it up.

And yeah, how Smith's play is targeting, but the UGA guy's isn't, is just the latest in a long line of examples.

SEC refs, including the centralized review crew, are the worst.

 

[AlistarWills]

Smith’s targeting call was correct and the “crown of the helmet” part of the rule that got him is there to protect HIM from compressing the vertebrae in his neck and paralyzing him. You need to see what you are hitting. In years past that hit would be called spearing.
The UGA player launching himself like Superman into the pile headfirst towards a literally defenseless player who was being held up violates so many aspects of the rule it’s not funny.
I do wonder if a suspension for the first half of their next game can be done retroactively because the officials absolutely flubbed that one.

 

[Windsortide]

The rule and the penalties handed out need to be updated. They have done a good job of eliminating that kind of tackling in today’s game for the most part.