Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Needs to be more looked at at this game, I think:

Well, this is fresh...

Checking the baseball scores, I see a video from ESPN on their website, and the caption struck me.

Someone -- and I don't know whether it's the NCAA or the relevant conferences involved -- needs to look at the game last night between Louisville and Ole Miss.

Because, if this happened at any other level, "supplemental discipline" against the teams or coaches would be involved.

FOUR players were ejected in the game for "targeting", the rule designed to prevent headshots or spearing or both.

The story gets worse:  All four were ejected in the FIRST HALF!!!!

The targeting rule, in various forms, has been around for a decade or so.  You'd THINK, by now, players would get it.

That's the kind of stuff, to me, that should at least get the Final Warning:  Any more, this game ENDS.



  1. 2:15 to go in the first.  This one came from the booth.  #35 from Ole Miss comes in, lowers the boom, gets the tackle, and runs off like he accomplished something.  What he accomplished (watch the second replay at :33) was a helmet shot to the ballcarrier.  Any time that happens, that's targeting.  The Back Judge should nearly be fired, though -- he was looking right at it with the perfect angle (third replay) and threw no flag.  Ejection #1.
  2. 12:15 to go in the second, this is a 4th and 2.  (1:05 on the video)  That one doesn't even need to be targeting and should have a separate rule on it.  This goddamn "cheap shot the sliding quarterback" bullshit has been on the rise for a number of recent years.  That just needs a separate rule.  You cheapshot a clearly sliding QB, you're gone.  You could actually have tossed TWO players on the hit (#7 and #38 for Louisville BOTH hit him late). -- #7 gets Ejection #2.  #38 could also have been called for at least a late hit as well.
  3. The video above didn't get this one, but this is on the ensuing kickoff from the previous incident.  This one I couldn't get any numbers on at all, since it involved a block in front of the ball-carrier, but a Louisville blocker on the kick return targets an Ole Miss potential tackler and gets tossed.
  4. This one is even more blatant than the first three.  St 2:02 in the video (the ESPN video notes this was about 6:25 to go in the 2nd quarter), but the Lousiville quarterback is running out of bounds and the Ole Miss #0 actually commits a full scale headbutt.  That's not only targeting, that's ejection at the pro level.  That would've satisfied the conditions for helmet ejection in the NFL!  Lowered head, clear path, unnecessary hit.  Ejection #4.
IT'S FUCKING TIME THIS "PUT A HAT ON SOMEBODY" BULLSHIT IS STOPPED AT THE COACHING LEVEL.

This game should've have at least been stopped and the coaches called to the center of the field.  It's bad enough when you get one of them in a game.

FOUR VALID TARGETING EJECTIONS IN ELEVEN MINUTES???

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