Last Play replay

[phgreek]

The Supreme Court has reviewed the tape and their ruling was: Stanford was SNUFFED!

Lets move on.

We have some Mormons coming to visit and they're on a mission.(They're always on some mission)

...thats funny...

 

[TheSunIsRising]

The side judge will make this call most of the time. It doesn't look like he could have seen the elbow (we can't) so it would seem he called it based on his forward momentum being stopped.

Just a small technical point: I think you mean the Head Linesman or Line Judge; the two officials on each sideline at the line of scrimmage. The Side Judge is at the back of the defensive secondary, on the side of the Head Linesman (ie. would have been in the back corner of the endzone)

in addition, I wish someone would do one for the mysterious whistle play in the fouth quarter where Taylor claims he stopped, and the line stopped....

I watched it a number of times...there was no audible whistle noise...where in the meatchicken game I heard it in the broadcast...it is possible he heard one I guess but the biggest issue is, he did not appear to stop, I could not see any lineman stop, and finally NONE of it matters because Farley was unblocked...the result does not change in any scenario....all-in-all I call flat Bullshit on Stanford on that excuse.

If there are whistles in the stands...I'll be honest...I don't like that. Needs to stop. However...from my playing days, I recall the band leader had....you guessed it...a whistle...so it may be innocent...just need to make sure if it is being used in an honest capacity, that it does not interfere with play...

Yeah, Nunes appeared to slow down a little bit, and Taylor did only about the time Farley was about to wrap him up, but they were the only ones. When you consider where the officials are during a play (Referee in the offensive backfield behind the RB, Head Linesman and Line Judge on the two sidelines at the LOS, the Umpire at the LB depth, the Back Judge at the back of the secondary in the middle of the field, and the Side Judge and Field Judge at the same depth as the Back Judge but shaded to the sidelines), it is odd than not one official heard a whistle. One or more of these officials would have to have been closer to the whistle than Nunes and Taylor. Maybe Nunes and Taylor hear at a different frequency than everyone else.

Agree on the point about whistles in the stands; would hope that fans don't do that

I thought the one bad call was toilolo's catch where he tumbled out of bounds...I would not have overruled that as a catch...and guess what, that was a bad spot after..., BUT, Stanford overcame both with a first down, so the scenario I thought the refs bungled had ZERO impact on the game.

Agree that it didn't appear to be indisputable evidence to reverse the completion ruling, but disagree on Stanford getting a bad spot. I stated this in the 'other' thread about the last play: yes Stanford lost two yards of field position (ball moved from ND 49 to Stanford 49), but they also went from 2nd and 10 to 3rd and 7, so they picked-up 3 yards of down and distance after the pass was ruled incomplete.

 

[phgreek]

Agree that it didn't appear to be indisputable evidence to reverse the completion ruling, but disagree on Stanford getting a bad spot. I stated this in the 'other' thread about the last play: yes Stanford lost two yards of field position (ball moved from ND 49 to Stanford 49), but they also went from 2nd and 10 to 3rd and 7, so they picked-up 3 yards of down and distance after the pass was ruled incomplete.

Holy cow...I totally missed that..good catch

 

[connor_in]

The Supreme Court has reviewed the tape and their ruling was: Stanford was SNUFFED!

Lets move on.

We have some Mormons coming to visit and they're on a mission.(They're always on some mission)

Don't forget, we have some of our own Mormons

 

[Irish#1]

Yeah, Nunes appeared to slow down a little bit, and Taylor did only about the time Farley was about to wrap him up, but they were the only ones. When you consider where the officials are during a play (Referee in the offensive backfield behind the RB, Head Linesman and Line Judge on the two sidelines at the LOS, the Umpire at the LB depth, the Back Judge at the back of the secondary in the middle of the field, and the Side Judge and Field Judge at the same depth as the Back Judge but shaded to the sidelines), it is odd than not one official heard a whistle. One or more of these officials would have to have been closer to the whistle than Nunes and Taylor. Maybe Nunes and Taylor hear at a different frequency than everyone else.

I believe it was a dog whistle.