The replay official was probably a retired judge who thought it was inadmissible, circumstantial evidence. One benefit of the call standing is that it got Les and the Tigers fired up. :thumb:
the only untrue statement was you thinking it was a touchdown. In almost every instance when the replay matters its called wrong. Thats a fact. Stick around Ill teach you even more stuff as we go along.
Exactly. Now if LSU would have recovered at the five and then ran it in, it would have been LSU ball at the five. It was a total BS call. SEC refs are the worst. I don't know if it happens in all SEC games, but it seems to happen a lot against LSU.
1- It's way too easy to offend you 2- It would have been a TD had the ref got the call right 3- If you really think it's fact that replay is wrong most of the time, you apparently don't follow any sort of football
No, the difference on KO is that it's a live ball after it has traveled 10 yds. On a punt, it's a live ball once the receiving team touches the ball. So LSU should have gotten a TD or safety if the ball would have gone out the endzone.
For as much confindence as I have in replay refs this year, they probably made the call due to the fact that they had no idea what to do with the ball either. Officiating this year has been a travesty.
That's not what happened on Saturday. The UT kick returner bobbled it on the 2, picked it up but had the ball hit the pylon. The pylon is out of bounds and in the endzone and UT got a touchback. BTW, I'm talking about a play on an LSU kickoff, not the punt in question. Anyone want to guess what's supposed to happen if the punt in question went out of the endzone?
ARTICLE 8. If a scrimmage kick (other than one that scores a field goal)goes out of bounds behind a goal line, the ball becomes dead and belongs to the team defending that goal line. Tennessee's ball on the 20.
Safety That is correct, and it would be a safety. Yes it is a muff. But, no, the player would not have to have possession. By definition, a “muff” means the player did not have possession. In this case the punt coverage team (LSU) can gain possession at the spot where they recover the ball. If that spot is in the end zone, they “gain” possession there, in which case it is a TD. If it goes out-of-bounds before the coverage team can gain possession, it is a safety and two points are awarded to the coverage team. What? LSU’s ball at their own 20 (80 yards down field), or at the UT 20 (20 yards away from the goal to go)? Neither of these is correct and neither would make any sense. “Possession” would occur when the punt receiving team (UT) touches the ball, either intentionally or unintentionally. If they do not touch it and gain “possession,” then the coverage team (LSU) can “down” the ball, or it is placed at the spot where it stops. If this is in or through the end zone, it is a touchback and the receiving team (UT) would get the ball at their own 20. Wrong. See above. Wrong. As noted above, LSU would get the ball where they recover it. If UT recovers it, then UT gets the ball where they recover it. If that is in the end zone, then it is a safety. If it goes through the end zone and out of the field of play, it is a safety. If neither team recovers the ball and it goes out-of-bounds before the end zone, it is the receiving team’s (UT) ball where it went out because they would be the last team to have “possession.” Yes, no individual player is deemed to be the “kick returner.” Rather, there is a kick return team. This is true, and that is the call that was made. However, that is IF the punt receiving team does not touch the ball in the field of play. The scenario being discussed assumes that the receiving team does touch it. Therefore, it’s a different situation.
