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I am a bit surprised this isn't a technical foul against the player. In sports we often talk about how a player has to be in control of themselves during play, they are responsible for their actions, ect. This was clearly a case of a player not being in complete control of his actions, which resulted in very UNINTENTIONAL contact with an official outside the actual play of the game.
I understand completely that this was unintentional, but it was his action that caused an injury to the official. To me this should be a technical foul, without the ejection that comes with intentional contact of an official.
I know there are rules against contacting an official across all sports, and that contact needs to be deemed intentional to draw an ejection (I think all sports now deem intentional contact with an official an ejection). I am just surprised that this isn't a penalized action.
(For full disclosure, I am a UofM fan, but would feel the same way if it was a Michigan fan who hit the official instead of an Illinois player).
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