OSU-Central Michigan finish

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Still in pocket, no receiver in area.

Those conditions are necessary but not sufficient to call intentional grounding. It still has to be done to conserve time or the spot, and this was for neither.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Those conditions are necessary but not sufficient to call intentional grounding. It still has to be done to conserve time or the spot, and this was for neither.

Supposed to read minds or ask the QB? The throw conserved yards. That's all I, as a WH, care about. Grounding.

[scrounge]

On field ACC crew and Big 12 replay crew suspended 2 games

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by scrounge

On field ACC crew and Big 12 replay crew suspended 2 games

MAC, not ACC

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Rich

Supposed to read minds or ask the QB?

That's what intentional grounding's always been about.

The throw conserved yards. That's all I, as a WH, care about. Grounding.

It shouldn't be all you care about, because there are plenty of incomplete passes that conserve yards but that you'd never call intentional grounding because they weren't intended to conserve yards. For instance, the passer & receiver get crossed up as to the route, so the ball winds up going nowhere near a receiver. You'd call intentional grounding only if it looked like the passer's purpose in throwing it was to avoid a loss or to stop the clock. That was manifestly not the case here. The player throwing the pass cared nothing about where the ball would be spotted for the next down, and did not care to leave any time on the period clock.