NCAA Targeting Rule

[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by SE Minnestoa Re

Your title is former ump. Things are changing in football officiating. As our state director says, hits that used to cause the coach to give out an award is now causing a player to be ejected.

No matter what any of us think, football will cease to exist if we don't clean up high hits. Moms, not doctors, will decide their beloveds will not be allowed to play. I think the game is safer today but I also think additional safeguards are coming in future years.

I've officiated baseball in the past, but not football.

I'd certainly say I have a higher than average rules knowledge of football, but not to the level of someone who officiates the sport.

[FormerUmp]

How does replay miss this so badly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZ_mpb_nGg

[ajmc]

Probably the same way that low, inside slider sometimes just catches/just misses the corner of the plate.

[scrounge]

Originally Posted by FormerUmp

How does replay miss this so badly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZ_mpb_nGg

You make it sound like this wasn't even close, it's 2 to 3 inches away from being a very valid call. I didn't think it was targeting - and today the Big 10 office agreed that it wasn't - but I think the call is absolutely supportable.

And I'm a massive Ohio State fan, but I can set that aside to watch this with my eyes, not my heart, and know that this was a very close call.

[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by scrounge

You make it sound like this wasn't even close, it's 2 to 3 inches away from being a very valid call. I didn't think it was targeting - and today the Big 10 office agreed that it wasn't - but I think the call is absolutely supportable.

And I'm a massive Ohio State fan, but I can set that aside to watch this with my eyes, not my heart, and know that this was a very close call.

Live, absolutely. Not on replay.