Iron Bowl: Joint Possession/Simultaneous Catch

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bisonlj

There are many in NCAA who believe there is no such thing as a simultaneous catch.

There's rules support for that, because catch & recovery are defined in terms of control of the ball, and how can someone be said to have control unless it's exclusive? The argument against that would be the argument against superfluity, i.e. that the rules wouldn't have all the verbiage about simultaneous catch or recovery if it didn't exist.