[Husker] Refs

[Patrick Gaule]

Ignoring the fact that Stafford was pushed (and the refs don't get 
"excused" simply because they didn't see it...that's their job), the 
flag shouldn't have been thrown for two reasons:

1.)  Stafford did everything in his power to stop.  If he wanted to, he 
could have demolished the QB.  As it was, the contact was incidental at 
best.  It was rather obvious that he wasn't targeting the QB, and it was 
rather obvious that the QB wasn't even bothered by the hit.
2.)  If the band hadn't been crammed on the field, then the collision 
probably wouldn't have even happened.  There would have been plenty of 
space.

Again, this is the type of mickey-mouse garbage that we will keep seeing 
so long as the NCAA and the Big Ten keep being over-protective of the 
players.  At this rate, we will be watching flag football in 20 years.

On 11/3/2012 9:31 PM, Andrew Smith wrote:
> I'll (sort of) defend the refs on this one...
>
> If the refs saw the push or this was a reviewable call, then yes, it 
> was a bad call.  But given that their focus was on the ball and all 
> they saw was a hit on a QB well out of bounds, what would you expect?  
> If you saw Martinez hit well out of bounds and did not see that the 
> player who did it was pushed, would you have kept your flag in your 
> pocket?
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 11/3/2012 6:15 PM, Greg Zimmerman wrote:
>> I hate to complain about the refs but we can't seem to get a break 
>> today.
>> The last play where our DB was pushed into the MSU QB and rewarded 
>> with a
>> flag was ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as that moron Sean McDonough's
>> comment. Sheesh.
>>   Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
>> Overland Park, Kansas
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