If it is truly inconclusive, then of course you go with the call on the floor. (Obviously, if there's a guy standing in front of the camera and you can't see the foot or the line, you go with the call on the floor.) My point -- which I don't think I made very well -- is that the announcers seemed to have a much quicker trigger on when one should just default to the call on the floor. The notion seemed to be that if it's close, overtime is the right answer, which led to griping about why it was taking 5 minutes. I think the crew seemed to have a much different attitude -- if we were wrong, we're wrong; we have to look at everything we can look at as close as we can look at it and if it's a two, it's a two, and "five more minutes" would be as unfair for MSU as wrongfully reversing the call would be to Kentucky.
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