Trick play, middle school. Your take...

[BuckeyeRef]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

The weird stuff is coming out of the woodwork this week. Receiver does handsprings while in motion

Any thoughts on the ejection?

I don't know why the player was ejected. The article mentioned a tinted visor while one of the comments referened the player saying something to the official.

As for the coach, watching the video it appears as if about the :40 mark one of the assistant coaches leans in and yells something at the wing official. The wing official then throws his flag and points at the assistant coach who is walking away. So the coach ejection may have been for two USC's on his sideline. Just guessing. But I certainly see the wing pointing at an assistant coach after his flag.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRef

I don't know why the player was ejected. The article mentioned a tinted visor while one of the comments referened the player saying something to the official.

As for the coach, watching the video it appears as if about the :40 mark one of the assistant coaches leans in and yells something at the wing official. The wing official then throws his flag and points at the assistant coach who is walking away. So the coach ejection may have been for two USC's on his sideline. Just guessing. But I certainly see the wing pointing at an assistant coach after his flag.

If you look over on Deadspin, it's reported that the coach brought this up before the game, was told that it would get flagged, and then decided to run it anyway.

So they had it coming. QED.

[bkdow]

If what the coach says is true, it's hard to eject a kid for excessive celebration after numerous dead/live ball penalties on a PAT. If we had told a coach that you could not run the play because it was illegal and he did it anyway, then you just penalize him the 15 USC penalty and move on. Maybe the missing aspect is that it was his second USC and he was shown the door for that.

Maybe this paragraph supports the theory:
Precisely why the pair was given the boot is uncertain. GoBlueRidge.net reported that the two were kicked out because of the play itself, but the penalty was not technically due an ejection, so other possibilities are available. One of those was provided to RivalsHigh senior analyst Dallas Jackson, who had a source report that Haas was ejected because of an earlier flag for a tinted visor and Pruitt was banned because of an additional unsportsmanlike penalty assessed for an inappropriate comment from a Watauga assistant coach.