[Husker] A couple penalty calls

[Dick Karre]

On 11/25/2011 9:43 PM, Anita Jackson wrote:
> I'm curious about a couple of calls in today's game. The replay at the 
> stadium didn't help to clear things up for me, so I'm going to the list.
>
> First,: how can they call a chop block on Caputo when he appeared to 
> be the only Husker in a group of Hawkeyes? I thought it took two to 
> chop block, one to engage up high and one to engage down low. As I 
> said, in this case, it appeared that Caputo was the only one there. I 
> will concede that this could be wrong as I wasn't looking right where 
> the foul occurred.
>
> Second: How come offside was not called on the on-side kick? The 
> kicker clearly stepped in front of the ball before kicking it? If 
> other players cannot cross the line, why can the kicker? I saw this 
> same thing in a pro game last week, again not called.
>
> Anita
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The chop block was a bad call. Caputo put a cut block on the guy, after 
which another Husker engaged him high. It has to be the other way around 
to be a penalty. There were several others that were questionable, at 
best: the holding call on Yoshi was ticky-tack; the defensive holding 
call on David was almost nonexistent; on one of the pass-interrerence 
calls the receiver would have to have been out of bounds to catch the 
ball. I'm not sure what the rule is on kickoffs; I suspect kickers 
sometimes plant in front of the ball, but I've never seen it called.

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Dick Karre
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