[Husker] kick reception interference

[Theodore Heise]

Good point about the ball not hitting a Washington player, I hadn't 
considered that.  I hadn't considered the call on the Burkhead hit 
to be bad, and was glad it didn't have quite the impact of the first 
penalty (i.e., yardage, but not change of possession).

Ted



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.

> 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. ;)

>> 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.