There is too much $$$, too many jobs etc. on the line to have 4(four) D-1 officials present on the field and not one of them saw the fair catch? Wow! Fortunately, it was probably just due to incompetence. I would like to have repercussions for blatant incompetence i.e. no check that week. Do it again, Beat It. The issue is 4 guys are hired to insure fair play. It's a fricken PUNT! All eyes are on the player fielding the punt. How can 4 officials not see an obvious fair catch? :shrug: I obviously was on the Ville, or I wouldn't be up in arms.. They had the nerve to calbackl a 80 yd kickoff return by Louie immediately following the sham. Unreal- makes you wonder - Donaghy
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Doc, I couldn't agree more. How in the hell can something like that happen? I mean it. How can it happen? The whole country saw it. How can the 4 people being paid to watch for this action miss it? :shrug:
Un-freaking-believable!!!!!!!!
Un-freaking-believable!!!!!!!!
I don't think I have ever been so disapointed regarding an official's call, or lack there of. As far as I 'm concerned, the dynamic of the game changed on that blown call. Uconn played much better offensively from that point forward behind their rejuvenated home crowd.
I will follow closely, but the back judge should be suspended for the remainder of the season imo.
I will follow closely, but the back judge should be suspended for the remainder of the season imo.
actually, next 3 Uconn drives after that play resulted in a 3 and out, a drive with 1 first down, and another 3 play drive that ended with the defensive TD
Once L'ville had the 2 score lead, that's when Uconn got their offense going
Once L'ville had the 2 score lead, that's when Uconn got their offense going
The game changed, IMO, on the punt return TD. Prior to the mistake, 0 drives account for TDs, following the mistake 40% of drives result in TDs.
The comeback might have happend anyway, but it sucks nonetheless.
Congrats on your Uconn win. Nobody knows what the ultimate outcome "would" have been had the insane faux-catch never happened. My guess would be a 20 pt UL win, but I may be bias since I played them @ -2.5. They allowed the other 2 td's, so the loss is on them. I think I can say w/confidence that the officiating blunder completely changed the outcome w/all factors considered. I wish Petrino was on the UL sideline- those sackless morons would have corrected the debacle. Unreal. I want some fricken justice imposed on that officiating crew! Ironically, I think I am the only person in the history of football to be flagged for an "illegal fair catch." Amazingly the entire punt cover team recognized the fair catch? At the time, it seemed ridiculous. I now have a greater respect for that penalty. I never knew the potential disasters of an ambiguous fair catch.
I also had Louiville and thought that play changed the game. There is no way it couldn't have. I don't know how it would have ended. Imagine if the Louiville player nailed the returner and he fumbled and another Louiville player picked it up for a TD the other way. Why can't something like that happen for the side I'm on. The announcer Chris Spielman was pissing me off with all that talk about playing to the whistle. When the returner caught the ball the Louiville players are taught not to knock the piss out of someone if he waives a fair catch. Right when he saw that hand go up he knew he couldn't have the hit or it would be a personal foul. There's no waiting for the whistle in a split second situation like that.
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"That wasn't no fair catch, that was a fair play out there," Taylor said. "The referee didn't call anything, he said it was a fair play. I felt I didn't fair catch it anyway."
A real scholar and sportsman.
"That wasn't no fair catch, that was a fair play out there," Taylor said. "The referee didn't call anything, he said it was a fair play. I felt I didn't fair catch it anyway."
A real scholar and sportsman.
The commentators went through the rule book and it says to c all for a fair catch, one must wave his arms more than once. I only saw one arm wave, therefore it would not have been a fair catch call. Consistancy is what is the issue though. The whistle typically blows on a wave like that, but the official was not incorrect this time in my opinion.
thanks for quoting half of what they said
they also said that if one waives his arm once it's an attempt to make a fair catch, an illegal fair catch call....one that results in a dead ball (same thing as a fair catch)
either way, waive your hand once or twice and the ball is blown dead immediately at the spot.
You're an idiot. I'm sorry, but I don't think there is really any question that it was a blown call :mj07: . Have you ever played football?? I don't need an ESPN commentator to pull out a rule book. As gjn stated, it is a penalty to throw up a halfass deceiving fair catch signal.
To quote UCONN's Taylor..."That wasn't no fair catch, that was a fair play out there,"
