[Husker] Reviewable plays?

[Smith, William]

Once again I risk being run off the list...

putting the 1 second back on the clock was the right thing to do.  There was clearly a second left when the ball hit the ground out of bounds.

Consider the famous "veil of ignorance" standard (with credit to John Rawl's theory of justice).  If before that play we didn't know which team was on offence (and down by one point) and which team was on defense, and what would we consider fair?   (that is, we should not consider our own interest in determining how rules are to be applied).

If we had posed this question 24 hours ago, I'm willing to bet most people would feel it best to  overrule the trigger-happy gameclock official.

Bill Smith
Towson, MD


On 12/6/09 8:36 AM, "Mike Jaixen" <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

It may have only been 1 second, but it might have been the most important one second in all of college football this season.  The impact of the error makes it egregious.
 Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com




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From: Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net>
Cc: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Sun, December 6, 2009 2:15:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Reviewable plays?

Brad Roth wrote:
> If I am understanding what I've read at the link below, the last play WAS NOT reviewable.  It should have been game over.  Period.
>
>
I did some more digging and found an NCAA document entitled "NCAA Rules Committee Major Changes 2009-10". Section 12-3 lists reviewable plays in much the same fashion as the Big XII document cited by Brad. It then concludes:

"No other plays or officiating decisions are reviewable. However, the replay official may correct egregious errors, including those involving the game clock, whether or not a play is reviewable."

Was this - a split-second delay in stopping the clock - an "egregious" error? The term means extraordinarily bad, glaring, or flagrant, but I suppose the person deciding that is the person who performs the review, so I think we're done here. I wonder why they couldn't use that same rule to overrule a pass interference call on an egregiously overthrown ball. Oh, well.

You can find the document at -
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/rules/football/2009/2009RulesCmteChanges.doc


-- Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net

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