Automatic T?

[JRutledge]

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.

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

[stripes2255]

Back to Coach Bills concerns: I am not sure why you would be concerned with the event anyways. This seemed like a situation between your opponent and the ref. Rather than worrying about this situation, worry about your team getting better and use the event as a learning situation for what you don't want to see from your squad.

[Coach Bill]

Originally Posted by stripes2255

Back to Coach Bills concerns: I am not sure why you would be concerned with the event anyways. This seemed like a situation between your opponent and the ref. Rather than worrying about this situation, worry about your team getting better and use the event as a learning situation for what you don't want to see from your squad.

Wasn't too concerned. Like I said, I didn't make a big deal of it. Just thought it was unusual. I've been coaching a long time, and it's been a T every time, except this one.

And, how was this a learning situation?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by stripes2255

Back to Coach Bills concerns: I am not sure why you would be concerned with the event anyways. This seemed like a situation between your opponent and the ref. Rather than worrying about this situation, worry about your team getting better and use the event as a learning situation for what you don't want to see from your squad.

Originally Posted by Coach Bill

Wasn't too concerned. Like I said, I didn't make a big deal of it. Just thought it was unusual. I've been coaching a long time, and it's been a T every time, except this one.

And, how was this a learning situation?

This is the reason these usually need to be called. From how I read it, I would have called it. It's hard for Coach Bill to teach his kids there are consequences for mouthing off to the refs (or in this case, showing them up) when it's done by the opponents without consequence.

[stripes2255]

If Coach Bill felt strongly enough about it he should tell his team that the outburst from the other teams player was unacceptable and that he never want's to see that type of reaction from his players.
Even though the ref didn't give the tech, doesn't make the kids actions acceptable.