Court involvement.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

What's more, the coach could have requested a conference with the referee to challenge the ruling when it was made but of course didn't because he didn't know the rule either.

I'm not a football official, but I was talking with a basketball partner who does football about this case. He pretty much said the same thing, that the head coach has a window to clarify the enforcement of a penalty (and would be charged a time out or a penalty if he's wrong). If this head coach never used this window, then that's a glaring error on the coach, and he should have owned up to that and stopped this appeals nonsense.

That doesn't absolve the crew from this error at all, but some responsibility has to go on the coach.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by bainsey

I'm not a football official, but I was talking with a basketball partner who does football about this case. He pretty much said the same thing, that the head coach has a window to clarify the enforcement of a penalty (and would be charged a time out or a penalty if he's wrong). If this head coach never used this window, then that's a glaring error on the coach, and he should have owned up to that and stopped this appeals nonsense.

That doesn't absolve the crew from this error at all, but some responsibility has to go on the coach.

Who knows if they would have listened to him though?

I just can't believe that with five officials on the field, someone didn't step up and offer the correct enforcement of the penalty.

[mutantducky]

I agree with the Court's decision but I do think there should be some kind of review. I would even be willing to accept protests kind of how the NBA does. Not for judgement calls or missed calls. Those are going to happen and it would be too big of a mess to sort out. But here you have an unusual play with an incorrect ruling that clearly impacted the outcome. That's unfair to the losing team. I have no problem if local associations put something in place to lessen the chance of that happening but good luck working that out!



not sure why some of you are hating on the female reporter?

[paulsonj72]

Originally Posted by mutantducky

I agree with the Court's decision but I do think there should be some kind of review. I would even be willing to accept protests kind of how the NBA does. Not for judgement calls or missed calls. Those are going to happen and it would be too big of a mess to sort out. But here you have an unusual play with an incorrect ruling that clearly impacted the outcome. That's unfair to the losing team. I have no problem if local associations put something in place to lessen the chance of that happening but good luck working that out!



not sure why some of you are hating on the female reporter?

Coach had a chance to argue that the rule was improperly applied during the game and failed to take advantage of the rule.

[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by paulsonj72

Coach had a chance to argue that the rule was improperly applied during the game and failed to take advantage of the rule.

As I understand most protest procedures, they are predicated upon the team that protests specifically objecting to the rule application at the time it was made -- doesn't sound like that happened here . . .

[BillyMac]

The next time I screw the pooch on an out of bounds call, will have to hire an attorney and take a day off from my day job to make a court appearance?

[Kelvin green]

The judge was correct. As far as I recall ( for those of you that have the jokes ready yes I am an attorney) the weight of case law is clearly on the side of officials and the league. Personally, this litigation based on my understanding of basic sport law was frivilous. The only people who won in thus case was the attorney who filed at the wishes of the client. The legal system is no place to decide the outcome of the game.

Hey the officials screwed the rule. It happens but how many other mistakes were made by the two teams and the officials. Let's litigate them all...