Video Request: Wisconsin-Miami

[FormerUmp]

13 and change to go in the first.

Replay review. What video were they watching?

Did I miss something here?

[Rich]

It was coming out. Correct overturn. And I live in Wisconsin and am rooting for the Badgers.


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[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

It was coming out. Correct overturn. And I live in Wisconsin and am rooting for the Badgers.


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I had it coming out when his elbow hit the ground.

[FormerUmp]

Yeah, I have this as a bad, bad miss.

[Rich]

It's coming out.


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[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

It's coming out.


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Agree to disagree, I guess.

I don't see the ball moving until after he's down, and I've watched it a lot. Had they called it a fumble on the field, I'd have overturned it to down. Given that it was called down-by-contact initially, I don't see the basis for an overturn at all.

[FormerUmp]

Is there a different standard for players vs. coaches as far as contacting officials? Mark Richt seemed to get a fair amount of leeway towards the end of the first half.

[Rich]

I think this is being overblown.


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[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

I think this is being overblown.


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The contact?

I think it's worth them discussing. As they're saying on the half-time show, people have certainly been ejected for less. Just yesterday, in fact.

How would you, as an official, have responded to his little shove?

[Rich]

I would've walked him to the sideline.


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[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

I would've walked him to the sideline.


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Weren't they already on the sideline at that point?

I understand that it's a judgment call on the officials' part as to how they view it. There were multiple officials there who didn't see a need to go any further with it, so I'm not suggesting they're "wrong" here. I'm just surprised because from what I've seen, that kind of contact is almost always an ejection. But that kind of contact is also most often coming from a player and not the head coach of the team.

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by FormerUmp

Weren't they already on the sideline at that point?

I understand that it's a judgment call on the officials' part as to how they view it. There were multiple officials there who didn't see a need to go any further with it, so I'm not suggesting they're "wrong" here. I'm just surprised because from what I've seen, that kind of contact is almost always an ejection. But that kind of contact is also most often coming from a player and not the head coach of the team.

In my opinion the coach should have been tossed. He had already been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and then contacts the official in an agressive manner. To me this deserves an ejection given what else has been given ejections this year for contacting officials.

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

In my opinion the coach should have been tossed. He had already been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and then contacts the official in an agressive manner. To me this deserves an ejection given what else has been given ejections this year for contacting officials.

(From the movie "Roadhouse", "Be nice, until it's time not to be nice", which apparently the covering official had determined it was NOT time, to escalate which most certainly would have made things WORSE.

The job requires being the "calm in the storm", not the lightening or God forbid "the thunder". The ONLY person who KNOWS, the extent, of what actually transpired is the official involved, and he made HIS judgment.

We can ALWAYS escalate, when WE decide it's time, and there's good reason, "not to be nice".

[HLin NC]

Short of murder, I don't believe a D1 HFBC can be "ejected". Maybe in the book, but not in practice.

Much as I dislike Miami, that ball was coming loose prior to his elbow hitting the ground.

[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

Short of murder, I don't believe a D1 HFBC can be "ejected". Maybe in the book, but not in practice.

Much as I dislike Miami, that ball was coming loose prior to his elbow hitting the ground.

Perhaps, but I still believe his knee was down first. Certainly not enough to overturn.