REVISED!! Suspension for a Safety

[TXMike]

REVISED!!!!!!!!!!!!! The current suspension was for incorrectly awarding a safety:

http://billingsgazette.com/sports/college/blogs/catgrizinsider/article_0b09692c-e206-11df-8042-001cc4c002e0.html

[JasonTX]

3 Years?  And what are "National Rules" ?

[blindref757]

What rule change 3 years ago is he referring to that was supposedly changed where a defender can't advance a backwards pass/snap?

[mishatx]

Was the rule changed in 1998?  Because that's 3 years ago from the date of the article.

[TXMike]

What a dumbarse am I!!! 

I was looking at an old article

This is the latest incident:
http://billingsgazette.com/sports/college/blogs/catgrizinsider/article_0b09692c-e206-11df-8042-001cc4c002e0.html

[Atlanta Blue]

 

One week suspension for an Inadvertent Posting

[TXMike]

In my  defense....what I did was similar to what officials frequently do when they flag an act as a holding but when we look at the film, it was a block in the back.  The penalty was still legit (10 yards). Just an inconsequential technical factual error.
   

[Getting Fat]

"Just an inconsequential technical factual error." - that line didnt work with my girlfriend either.

[Sonofanump]

"we have since learned, was incorrect."

I am still dumbfounded that the other 6 did not bail him out.

[TXMike]

The R was sort of throwing the others under the bus when he said "we" messed up.  But the conference apparently only acted on him so makes you wonder what really went on.

[JasonTX]

Was the rule changed in 1998?  Because that's 3 years ago from the date of the article.

Nice catch.

[TXMike]

And it was 1998

http://football.refs.org/rules/NCAA98pr.html

[Reff54]

we had a play several years ago where the kicking team twice kicked it out of bounds to avoid a run back.  The receiving team made them kick  it again each time.  on the third time...the kicked it to the return man on yard outside of the goal line.  he was stradling the hash mark...apparently thinking he was strandling the goal line he took one more step back into the end zone and took a knee....   he clearly caught the ball in the field of play away from the goal line.  it was ruled a safety.  you think his coach wasn't one upset person....   but it was he who insisted they repeat the kick each time...

[Etref]

we had a play several years ago where the kicking team twice kicked it out of bounds to avoid a run back.  The receiving team made them kick  it again each time.  on the third time...the kicked it to the return man on yard outside of the goal line.  he was stradling the hash mark...apparently thinking he was strandling the goal line he took one more step back into the end zone and took a knee....   he clearly caught the ball in the field of play away from the goal line.  it was ruled a safety.  you think his coach wasn't one upset person....   but it was he who insisted they repeat the kick each time...

Stupid is a stupid does!

[txmustang68]

Ok.  Maybe he and the crew messed up.  No problem - do the suspension and move on.  I find it  to be disturbing, however, that the author of this writing and its editor would be so critical as to say that perhaps the zebra will get it straight on their end.  Should we do the same to the "professional" writer that has a typo in their article?  That was an unnecessary slam, IMO.

[Atlanta Blue]

The mistake by the official was not a "typo".

If the reporter misconstrued facts, I would consider that closer to an equal offense.

The mistake by the official in this case is the kind that ends college careers.  If he made that kind of mistake while being evaluated in a HS game, he never would have made the college conference.