[Husker] Reviewed Call

[Aaron Wolfson]

I agree about the broadcasters; Mowins and Galloway added almost nothing.
And I started to feel like a callous person by the fourth quarter, because
I couldn't stop wishing for them to shut up about Bo. I was reasonably sure
the guy was still alive, so I didn't need them to restate the same
"information" (or really, lack thereof) over and over AND OVER. How
infuriating.

Aaron


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:
>
> > If it grazed his shoe, it could have still hit the turf.
> >
> > Moreover, if the ball was moving towards him, what caused it to start
> > moving
> > away from him?
> >
> > The OWH story implies the official said the ball hit his heel.
> >
> > If the Husker coaching staff thinks the call was bad, they should let
> > the Big Ten know about it, as it was a Big Ten crew.
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
> >
>
> Sorry for the long post - in advance.
>
> The TV people during the game reviewed the video and were seemingly divided
> over the outcome of the play.  I've gone back and watched my DVR, and the
> camera angle from the side seems to show the ball and foot at approximately
> the same place, and the ball bouncing away from the foot.  However, the
> camera angle from behind the play clearly shows the ball bouncing on the
> turf (the ball appears to be nose down which would cause the ball to bounce
> in an different direction) a foot or more (hard to judge distance) from the
> players foot.  Also its pretty easy to see the shadow of the ball and the
> shadow of the player from the overhead sun, and they just don't meet when
> the ball bounces.  And I'd also agree with the comment by Stephen above
> that the small cloud of rubber bits that come up when the ball strikes the
> ground is not where the player's foot is.  Not a cataclysmic play, but it
> bothered me so I stayed up late last night to look at the footage.  Blown
> call, not by the referee but by the replay booth official.  And a blown
> coverage by Nebraska because he shouldn't have been that close to the ball.
>
> Overall, though, it was a good game and the call had little effect on the
> outcome.
>
> Because of the horrible delay, I was forced to listen to the TV duo rather
> than the radio folks while watching the game (the TV was almost two plays
> behind the radio - like fingernails on a chalkboard).  My, they weren't
> very good.  The color guy had almost no color to add - and this is not
> about his ethnicity, its about his near total silence about the changes on
> the defensive side of the ball for Nebraska that seemed so effective
> against ASU, or really anything much at all about what was happening on the
> field.  And if you were just listening to the broadcast, I think you might
> have mistaken it for CNN with late breaking non-news about Bo Pelini in the
> second half.  They seemed to miss most of what was happening on the field.
>
> Now, another tune up with Idaho State, then bring on Wisconsin.  Let's hope
> Wisconsin doesn't improve much in the next two weeks (they've got UTEP at
> home - can they score more than 20?).
>
> Nick
> --
> "In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
> Napoleon Bonaparte
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