PSU/Purdue Big Ten Officials may be Fired

[reddevil19]

Originally Posted by TXMike

Worst call I have seen talked about was late in the game a Purdue receiver caught a pass close to the sideline and then stepped out of bounds to stop the clock but covering official would it, apparently ruling "forward progress". I am looking for the video of it.

I saw this play. The receiver did not run out of bounds forwards. He caught the ball coming back and went out of bounds running backwards. Doesn't the clock continue to run if you go out of bounds backwards?

[Kirby]

Not if the player goes out of bounds on his own with no contact from a defensive player.

[reddevil19]

That was my original thought. But the official seemed so sure of himself on the call that I figured he must be right and Tiller just had an awesomely bad brain-cramp on the rule.

This being the case, that seems like a very, very bad error on the part of the official.