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The University’s endowment is the 9th largest in the country, over $11 billion. I think they’ll be OK.

Nice non sequitur.

Sagarin has ND a 10 pt. favorite vs. IU on a neutral field.

Generally speaking, in HS football there is less leeway given for conduct by which a player calls attention to himself, and that is consistent with the philosophy of high school football, as opposed to big time college football or the NFL, which is entertainment-based, as opposed to education-based. Having said that, there is no blanket rule regarding showmanship and unsportsmanlike conduct. Everything is a specific situation, and it is a matter of judgment. The NCAA code has specific examples of acts deemed unsportsmanlike. The NF code does not.

Oh, I caught it. Thought it was appropriate, too. Irish deserve everything they get after that performance. Had a bye week to get ready and healthy, and they absolute didn’t show up.

Yeah, it wasn’t the weather. This is the story of Kelly’s tenure. Recruit players that are good enough to have a good team. But they don’t seem to develop much. They’re good enough to beat pretty much everyone they should beat. But they don’t win any big games.

Could someone who was at the Tell City - Forest Park game last night please contact me via private message? Thanks.

Then you probably wouldn’t want me to be the observer assigned to evaluate your crew. 😆 Just kidding. On a play like this it is unlikely I would downgrade anyone who called a holding penalty there, although it would be a topic of discussion in the postgame debrief.

Reasonable people can have a difference of opinion.

The proper technique is to see the potential hold and then look at the QB. If the ball is gone, or he’s in his throwing motion, hold the flag. I know it’s a hard concept for non-officials to get their heads around. But that’s why we get paid the big bucks. 😆

Absolutely not.

And when the winner of the LSU - Alabama game loses in the SEC title game, all hell will break loose.

Don’t know how you got that from what I said. But I can tell you that is part of the philosophy of calling holding in pass protection at every level of football. Don’t be disappointed in me. Be disappointed in all of the NFL and D-1 clinicians at the dozens of officiating clinics I’ve attended over many years. Because I didn’t invent that philosophy.

Sitting at home on a rainy Saturday and watching a Chicago Catholic League game between Marist and Loyola Academy. Loyola is a heavy favorite, but Marist leads by one at half. All the broadcast team can talk about is how Marist is playing with desperation because they need to win to make the playoffs. Too bad we will never be able to generate that kind of excitement for a regular season game in Indiana.

No, there weren’t. Arguably - and it’s by no means certain from these views - the right OT pulls the DE down on top of him. But no good official would call holding there because the ball was out quickly enough that the DE wasn’t going to get there even without the possible holding.

What do you have, if anything? FYI, the offensive team was trailing by 6 and the ball was snapped with less than 2 seconds remaining in the 4th period. Scroll down until you get to the first clip in the “Comments” section. https://mobile.twitter.com/Rick_Sports10/status/1187937573412528129

Correct. Once a scrimmage kick is touched by the receiving team beyond the neutral zone, the continuity of downs is broken. Whoever ends up with the ball will have a 1st and 10 from the dead ball spot.

Obviously, the better the view, the more confident one would be of the call. The view is not optimal. I gave an opinion based on what I could see, and qualified it in that way. Make of it whatever you want.

Not sure what you mean by that. I do know there are people who believe in those situations you should keep your flag in your pocket and “let the players decide it.” The people who think that way are not officials, I can assure you. You call the last play of the game the same way as the first.

Oh, I thought you meant the first clip that came up. I scrolled down to the comments section and looked at that one. From that view, this is offensive pass interference. The strength of the formation is to the left side of the offense. That means the back judge keys on the widest eligible to that side. So, the player who fouled is the back judge’s responsibility, although the line judge could have picked this up, too. Enforcement would be a 15 yd. penalty from the previous spot. If time expired during the down, they would play an untimed down. Just my opinion.

I still don’t see a foul. There’s a little hand fighting between the receiver who caught the ball and the DB, but I would deem it incidental. Cannot see the “pick” well enough to determine if it’s OPI.

Thanks for posting that. Video did not show the contact well enough to determine who initiated it. I would say “inconclusive.”

Any chance of posting the video?

Addendum: By rule, any personal foul committed against the passer is enforced as roughing, since that enforcement is most advantageous to the offended team. The contact was clearly not late. Possible explanations are that the passer — who is by definition a “defenseless player” — was hit above the shoulders, or hit by the defensive player’s helmet, both of which can be personal fouls against a defenseless player. But frankly, I didn’t see either of those on the video.

If that was called roughing the passer, unless there was some additional contact after the camera moved with the ball, I respectfully disagree.