"High hit" call

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It looks like a helmet to helmet hit or a hit to the head. These are POEs at the NCAA level to be called. And the player launched which is a tell tail sign of this kind of act. It was hard to see, but I think that is why this was called. No good replay makes this hard to determine.

Peace

I agree with what you say. The replay is poor. However, the calling official is looking through the players and it would be very hard for him to see helmet-to-helmet contact. Slowing it down on YouTube, it looked like shoulder to shoulder contact, but I wouldn't put money on that.

[Welpe]

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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I agree with what you say. The replay is poor. However, the calling official is looking through the players and it would be very hard for him to see helmet-to-helmet contact. Slowing it down on YouTube, it looked like shoulder to shoulder contact, but I wouldn't put money on that.

I was not commenting on the quality of the actual hit, I just was trying to give an explanation to what was called. And they told NCAA officials to err on the side of safety when guys launch. The quality of the call is debatable, but that is what I suspected the officials thought they saw. I did not see the contact called, but can see why it was called.

Peace