Miami just pulled a Stanford-Cal...
- Thread starter Chief Wiggum
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Helps when you can make laterals despite the guy being down and having 12 men on the field.
I hate football.
I hate football.
That proves it is insane to kickoff like that. You should kick it out of bounds and defend a 65 kard play from the line of scrimmage. It is a no brainer.
I think Duke got screwed. Looked like.knee was down.
Duke definitely got screwed. The knee was absolutely down. There were at least 3 blatant block in the backs. Then, the refs while reviewing the play overturned the block in the back penalty-which is not reviewable and was in fact a block in the back.
This is the worst part about it. Several of my fellow posters on my Duke board were saying the same thing simply because it's Duke football - we've invented new ways to lose for the last 20+ years. Not even Cutcliffe is immune to it.
It also especially sucks when the play is reviewed and there are two blatant things not reviewed (runner down prior to lateral and 12 men on the field). Then the thing that is reviewed isn't even allowed to be reviewed. But alas, it's Duke football, I know better than to get my hopes up.
And a Miami player ran onto the field without his helmet on while the play is still ongoing so 12 men on the field but no penalty. If it wasn't so heartbreaking it'd be funny.
Those officials need to be suspended. There was a lot of bad on that play and they got none of it right. How in the hell do you screw that up after a 9 minute review?
That is a dead ball penalty, so the touchdown would have stood even had it been called.
All of those laterals is not football. There should be a limit of three laterals on any play. Football is not rugby, nor is it a playground game. It is an athletic skill-based game. That play was not skillful.
By the way, in Football today, it is a backward pass. The term "lateral" doesn't exist in the rule book anymore. An expert on officiating on ESPN today commented about the importance of knowing the new terms and the rule book.
They were suspended for miss calls during the game. The booth official missed one call, but was that debatable?
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They were suspended for miss calls during the game. The booth official missed one call, but was that debatable?
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They didn't miss the "12 men on the field" call btw. That would at most be a sideline warning for first-time infraction, and would be a dead-ball penalty (so TD still good) if second occurence.
