[Husker] Big Hits: cheap and/or legal?

[Lynette Tillner]

Did anyone else see the end of the Baylor/Texas game? 2 Texas players hit Helmet 
to Helmet (or so it appeared). Both were on the ground quite a while - I don't 
like seeing players get hurt, but I couldn't help but wonder, who would get the 
suspension in  a situation like that? 

 Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
ltillner at yahoo.com 




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From: Robert Christensen <fourbox at nctc.net>
To: David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Sent: Sat, October 30, 2010 8:04:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Big Hits: cheap and/or legal?

I don't agree that Martin's hit was either cheap or illegal.  He was 
blocking on a kickoff return.  Its too bad the kid from OSU is out 
probably for the season.  There was a reference to an article that had a 
very good physics lesson on it.  The OSU player was hit low enough that 
his head moved forward before he hit the ground.

With the hit on Gabbert today, the helmet to helmet happened because 
Gabbert  saw the hit coming and ducked into the helmet to helmet.  I 
didn't think Osborne was flagged for that hit either.  Perhaps there is 
call for helmet to helmet even when it seemed that Gabbert contributed 
to the contact by his reactionary movements.

Bob

On 10/30/2010 9:39 PM, David Strong wrote:
>
>>> Before all the whining on the list starts about the
>> hit on Gabbert (and I'm sure the suspension coming) I was
>> wondering if either announcer commented on the hit on
>> Martinez? To me, if you say the Gabbert hit is cheap, the
>> hit to Martinez lower body is just as cheap.
> We may be confusing "legal" with "cheap."  I don't feel like the hit on Gabbert 
>was cheap, it just wasn't legal.  1. you can't hit someone in the head, 2. you 
>can't hit someone with your helmet in the head. Martin's hit was cheap; it was 
>no-better than a sucker punch on someone who isn't looking at you.  Osborne 
>hitting Gabbert was a whole different scenario, but it was still not legal and 
>he got rightfully flagged for it.  Suspension?  That will be interesting.
>
> Dave
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