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

[Aaron Wolfson]

It's Texas, so I'm guessing the suspension would go to Lavonte David.

Aaron


On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Lynette Tillner <ltillner at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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