Bobref

We are 3 1/2 weeks into this thing, and I have more questions than answers. Right off the top of my head: What was Conor Stalion’s actual job description at Michigan? To whom did he report? Where did the $$ come from to cover the cost of the “advance scouting?” The number I heard was tickets to 30 games, plus travel expenses. What happened to Stalion’s work product containing the information obtained through “advance scouting?” Has the allegation of a connection between Ryan Day and the private investigators who supplied the NCAA with evidence been conclusively debunked? If Ryan Day was not the instigator of the “investigation,” who was? Anyone have information on these issues?

How do you improve on perfection?

WHME 46 Sports is reporting head football coach Romison St. Louis has been relieved of his duties at Elkhart. “BREAKING: Romison Saint-Louis has been removed as Elkhart Lions football coach after just two seasons. Saint-Louis told me administrators felt the program wasn’t going in the right direction. He was 10-10 in two seasons, but he is proud of the team GPA rising from 2.56 to 2.95.”

Oh, they’ll have some fear, alright. But it won’t be fear of Chatard. It will be fear of Coach Radtke.

There’s a Twin Peaks opening up here in a couple of months. Never heard of it before that. What can I expect?

Bill Sharpe

Many of those yards came on big chunk plays, as a result of Snider DBs peeking into the backfield and Mishawaka throwing over the top on play action.

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I looked at the play again, and didn’t see anything different. The key here is that the receiver is, by definition, defenseless. That means any forcible contact against him, whether it involves the helmet or not, must fall into 1 of 3 categories, or it’s a foul for unnecessary roughness. The 3 categories of legal forcible contact are: Contact occurring during a legitimate attempt to make a play on the ball. Contact initiated with open hands and both arms extended. Contact occurring in the course of a tackle, where the defender wraps both arms around the receiver. In my opinion — and I stand ready to be corrected if a different angle shows otherwise — this is forcible contact against a defenseless receiver that doesn’t fall into any of the 3 categories of legal contact. Therefore, it’s a foul.

It is not a foul to break the huddle with more than 11 players under the high school code. The substitution rule requires that a player who is being replaced begin to leave the field within 3 seconds of being replaced. He is considered as having been replaced when the incoming substitute gets to the huddle, assumes a position in the formation, or communicates with a teammate. If the replaced player fails to do so, it’s a dead ball illegal substitution foul, 5 yds. If the replaced player begins to leave timely, but doesn’t get off the field in time, it’s a live ball illegal substitution foul, also 5 yds.

Unfortunately, I can’t. You need a Hudl account. If you have one, I can share it with you. But there was a clip from the live stream on the Indiana High School Football Fans Facebook page that shows it well enough. I’ll try to find it. The person who posted that clip was extolling the virtues of the DB who dealt out the “big hit.” Unfortunately, those Sports Center hits on defenseless receivers are fouls at the high school level.

I have seen the Hudl video. Sorry to have to say, but the play by that DB was actually a foul for unnecessary roughness against a defenseless receiver. Since time expired during the down, there should have been an untimed down after half the distance enforcement.

Gonna make it kind of difficult to argue at the TRO hearing that the head coaches’ absence on game day causes “irreparable injury,” requiring an injunction.

After he skulled that kick try, I was shocked when he drilled that field goal in the last minute to give them the lead.

You’re a better poet than you are an official. 🤣

This is why you don’t go to coaches for your rules information. First, and most obviously, one of the requirements for offensive pass interference is that there actually be a legal forward pass during the down … which there obviously wasn’t here. So, not throwing the flag for OPI was not a “mistake by the officials.” Secondly, the video I saw showed the receiver and the DB lock up initially when the receiver came out to block/pick him. But contrary to what you quoted the Coach as saying, the DB was not attempting to fight through the pick. After the initial contact, the receiver tried to run past the DB, who grabbed and restricted him as he was trying to run past him. That video supports the “garbage call.”

If either team shares their Hudl video with the IFOA, I’ll make it a point to look at the play.

There were no unsportsmanlike conduct fouls on either team, which would include a foul for excessive celebration. There were several personal fouls, all of them for late hits, except one for an illegal block below the waist, and one for targeting.

I discussed each of those fouls with the crew in the postgame debrief. I thought the crew was spot on with all of them. As good an officiating performance as I’ve seen this year.

Can you tell me at what point in the game the “garbage call” occurred?

The Snider @ Mishawaka game was everything you could ask for in a high school game. I was on the Snider sideline as that kid nailed the 45 yarder at the buzzer. Pandemonium!

One of the better high school games I’ve seen in awhile. Both teams left it all on the field. And, I might add, the officiating was a pleasure to watch.

It’s worse than that. Veteran’s Day. Courts are closed. If you think that was a coincidence …. As I said, this is going to get nasty very quickly … like immediately.