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Originally Posted by icallfouls
Official threw a flag on UW player for tossing a ball behind his head and up into the air. The end result, UW missed the 35 yd PAT and the official was killed by ESPN. The PAC 10 assignor had to come out and say it was AUTOMATIC.
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To be fair, that play was an obvious violation of the rules. And there are specific rules in place to make this very specific action illegal in a NCAA Football game. And the NCAA used video to show what constituted a foul. The officials were not only applying the rule, they were applying the philosophy.
Bouncing the ball to my knowledge has never been endorsed as a Technical foul either by rules or interpretation that I have ever seen. All there is are some official's personal standards that have been passed on. This is the very reason I suggested earlier that is the action more egregious if the action takes place based on how high the ball goes.
Peace