F*CK IOWA
- Thread starter FallOf81
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This is one time Hawkeye fans won't be
bragging about "The Wave".
bragging about "The Wave".
How is the ball hitting the ground along a sideline "kicking to him"
It's reviewable by multiple criteria.
The problem comes from that list being 'reviewable fouls'. A foul was not assessed.
This call being flipped is more akin to the booth noticing that a knee was down when the refs on the field didn't see it.
It seems like under review is the best application of the rule rather than blowing it dead and then realizing it was not an invalid signal. Here is the referee statement.
"The receiver makes a pointing gesture with his right hand and he makes multiple wave gestures with his left hand," referee Tim O'Dey told a pool reporter. "That waving motion of the left hand constitutes an invalid fair-catch signal, so then when the receiving team recovers the ball, by rule, it becomes dead. That is a reviewable element of the game. We let the play run out and then we went to review. Review shows with indisputable video evidence that there is a waving motion with the left hand.
"That's when these rules are applied."
O'Dey said that while returners are allowed to point toward the ball, "any waving motion" renders the play dead. O'Dey consulted with the on-site replay official and collaborative reply, used by power conferences and headquartered in Pittsburgh, to make the ruling.
Iowa doesn't have a legitimate complaint on the review. The review is going to include the entire play which clearly shows the invalid fair catch arm waving. That negates any advancement just as it would if the review showed the runner out of bounds or something like a knee contacting the ground. Not a penalty, but no advancement is permitted. Kirk is probably more upset that losing the special team score makes it harder for Brian to reach his scoring quota,
Thank you. I was definitely wrong in my analysis.
# of 2nd half turnovers = # of 2nd half yards
Anyone else having fun reading the infighting on Iowa message boards tonight?
All scores are reviewed
What’s everyone worked up about. Seems like a hard fought big 10 W defensive battle. Couldn’t ask for anything more. Classic smash mouth football.
As a Cyclone, after having lived through so many WTF calls against us, I say too f’ing bad Hawkeyes. Eat ****.
The attention is obviously on Iowa and whether they got screwed, but if I were a Minnesota fan, and it didn’t go the way it did, I would have been unbelievably mad. You can see a couple of their guys slow up when DeJean is waving. If you allow him to wave like that, that just encourages players to try to toe the line of what is and isn’t a fair catch (to basically throw the other team off and cheat). This may have just been an innocent mistake, but it had to be called the way it was.
Since when do officials get interviewed about crucial calls? I'm stunned this actually took place.