Did you see what happened? Jake Locker ran it in for a TD to make it 28-27, BYU. The ref flagged Locker for excessive celebration when he flipped the ball over his shoulder. 15 yard penalty makes the XP 25 yards and it gets blocked. Game over, BYU wins.
It was an awful call...He just scored the potential game-tying TD with 2 seconds left in the game and he tossed the ball over his shoulder and jumped with his teammates... Horrible.
Shoot, I just got back from the USF-UCF game. The Big East Refs just called one of the most biased games I've ever seen. Granted, UCF committed a few penalties, but this game was just BS. Still, UCF still scraped themselves together enough to force OT where they blew it, but F the Refs!
As a completely unbiased observer. The first thin I thought when I saw the replay was wow, he threw that ball pretty high in the air. Then they ran the rule that verbatim cited throwing the ball high into the air as an excessive celebration and he clearly broke the rule. The ref made a perfect call regardless of if it is a good rule or not. So in my opinion Jake Locher performed what was previously clearly labeled as "Excessive Celebration." Above and beyond that, the kick was still from a makeable distance yet the Huskies line let about 6 Cougars in to block the kick. The penetration that BYU got on that play would have blocked the kick from any distance which is the fact everyone, analysts included, is missing! The refs did not cause horrendous blocking, the refs did not make a call that wasn't explicitly labeled in the rules and even if the refs still hadn't called anything the kick would have been blocked because UW couldn't stop the rush.
Don't be such a stickler man... He's a human being he just ran a touchdown with 3 secs left to go into o.t ! It was emotional.. And im sure the blocked kick was a result of that call...
When you kick a shorter extra point, it's tougher to block because the kicker doesn't need as much power on the kick. That call was a joke.
You really think a kicker has to put a LOT more power into an 18-yard XP as oppose to a 3-yard XP. I agree with Rambo, this is all on the ST line that allowed BYU to penetrate and block the XP.
A) Why should he be allowed to toss the ball like that because he scored? People score all the time at the end of a game. Be a professional hand the ball off to the ref and go celebrate with your team. B) If the Cougars deflected the ball in the air because of the the kicker had to kick the ball on a lower trajectory (not with more power as you said) I might agree with you. However, the ball barely even got off the ground because no one blocked! It would have been blocked from any distance with that coverage.
wtf? 3 yard XP? 18 yard XP? The extra point ended up being kicked from 35 yards out. The uprights are 10 yards behind the goal line, plus the kicker can't kick it from the LOS, obviously.
They may have went for two instead of going for the XP, which was taken away from them by a terrible rule.
It was a 15 yard penalty. He meant from the Goal Line I am assuming (although I thought it was 2 yards).
Sounds like a lot of contingencies. However terrible the rule is, the call was still 100% correct. Refs did not screw UW. UW screwed UW.
I was in actually in Utah listening to the game on the BYU network and from the sounds of it the entire game was poorly officiated. Now I didn't see it but on teh last drive Looker apparently fumbled the ball and BYU recovred but was called intentional grounding. I also was told because I was at a game while it was happening but SDSU got the shaft from the officials against Notre Dame. Can anybody clue me in?
There isn't any contingencies, a terrible rule is a terrible rule and tha is all there is too it. Imagine if this crappy rule affects an important game.
He's NOT a professional. He's a 19 year old kid who just had the biggest moment of his life so far. The rule is stupid, like all anti-celebration rules.
