[JasonTX]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

He might not have had the best conceivable view, but it looks like he had a damn good one. Had he been on the field-of-play side of the GL, he might've been screened out by the ball itself as to whether it hit the GL, but where he was he would've seen if there was space between the point where the ball hit and the stripe.

In NCAA, does the ball have to touch ground that is behind the front of the goal line to be dead (if an untouched free kick)? Or does the ball merely have to touch the ground and be in the end zone (i.e. part of the ball that's off the ground) simultaneously? If the latter, then he really would have needed a view on the goal line extended to make a close call; if the former, then his view was easily adequate.

The ball has to touch the front part of the line in order to be dead in the end zone.