[Husker] kick reception interference

[Anita Jackson]

I believe that Eric Martin DID get that call against him last year and 
we did bitch.



On 9/18/2011 10:02 PM, Jon Johnston wrote:
> They were lousy calls. Nobody impeded Marlowe on his way to the ball, he stumbled, and there was no one standing where the ball came down - it did not hit a Washington player.
>
> On Burkhead's punt return - there is no halo - if you don't want to get hit immediately, call a fair catch. It was a good aggressive play by the Washington coverage player and Burkhead caught the ball.
> Put it this way - had a call like that gone against Nebraska, we'd all be bitching about it and we'd be right.
>
> Jon Johnston
> Corn Nation
>
> On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Scott Stewart wrote:
>
>> Thank you Ted for saying that. I was thinking the same thing. "impede" does
>> not require touching. Also, on the second call, I recall seeing many calls
>> of that nature before the "halo" rule. When I played (before a halo rule,
>> but after leather helmets), I was taught you had to give the receiver a
>> chance to catch the ball and having your helmet in his chest did not meet
>> that criteria. ;)
>>
>> scott
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Theodore Heise<theo at heise.nu>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So the announcers yesterday really made a big deal about the interference
>>> calls against UW--especially the first one.  Part of the rule they read
>>> mentioned that the defense cannot impede the receiver from catching the
>>> ball.  They noted that no UW player had touched the receiver, but if a
>>> player from the kicking team is standing in the place where the ball is
>>> coming down, isn't that
>>> impeding the receiver from making the catch?
>>>
>>> The announcers noted that there is no longer a halo, but even without a
>>> halo the receiver should be allowed to get into the position needed to make
>>> the catch.  Granted, the NU player tripped over a teammate and was somewhat
>>> off balance, but even so he seemed to be prevented from getting to the
>>> appropriate fielding location by the presence of a UW player.
>>>
>>> On that basis, it seemed to be at least a not unreasonable call.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Theodore (Ted) Heise<theo at heise.nu>      Bloomington, IN, USA
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