The Interception

[DenverSooner]

I want to ask on this forum because I like most of you and I hope it won't turn into some tirade against the OU players and coaches.

I don't see how with replay that could be a called an interception. Tao clearly was attempting to catch the ball, it hit the ground and then was bobbled before he ultimately secured possession. How is that a catch?

Turn it into a play you have seen 100 times. A low ball where the receiver catches it but it hits the ground at the same time. That is consistently ruled not a catch because the ball hit the ground.

I also don't get why there was no discussion about pass interference before the alleged int?

So am I simply too biased to be able to see this play clearly? It seems very clear to me that ND did not intercept that pass.

If your response is going to be insults towards anyone associated with the football program, I am not really interested.

 

[TheGimper]

Big East Officials.

 

[Ham]

Tie goes to the runner.
And the runner is the call made on the field.
Had it been called an incompletion, they wouldn't have reversed it.

But in all honesty, I thought it was an interception.
I thought he had his hand under it - but I didn't watch it a thousand times on replay.
A few was enough to make me sick and 'disengage' emotionally and mentally.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

I don't think it was an interception.

 

[NickZepp]

It was close because he did have control of the ball and his hand under it when it hit the ground then he lost control of it. It should have been overturned.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

It was close because he did have control of the ball and his hand under it when it hit the ground then he lost control of it. It should have been overturned.

this post contradicts itself. If his hand was under the ball then it never hit the ground and was an interception.

I don't think he had possession before the ball hit the ground, hence incompletion

 

[DenverSooner]

It was close because he did have control of the ball and his hand under it when it hit the ground then he lost control of it. It should have been overturned.

Exactly. The ground dislodge the ball and his hand was not under the ball. The ball physically touched the ground and to me there was absolutely no doubt about it.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lggQVR9TM[/ame]

26 second mark

 

[WTSooner]

First time I've seen the replay. I can see why they didn't overturn it, though it probably did hit the ground.

 

[campbest]

Tough to overturn the call on the field, not very conclusive. Unlucky break.

 

[BoulderSooner]

the ball 100% touched the ground after which he has to maintain control for it to be a pick ..and he 100% didn't ....

horrible to let the play stand

 

[MsProudSooner]

It would have been nice of ABC to show the replay of the entire play, including what looked to be pass interference on the part of the ND player. What a coininkydink that every replay they showed didn't show that part of the play. We all know that a missed call by a ref isn't reviewable, but it would have been nice for them to show it.

 

[jerry]

Actually the call should have been pass interference before the interception took place.

 

[DenverSooner]

First time I've seen the replay. I can see why they didn't overturn it, though it probably did hit the ground.

Probably? The ground is what caused the ball to pop out of his hands. He did not catch the ball, he trapped it on the ground with two hands and it bounced out of his hands by hitting the ground. I really don't get the call but I am biased and recognize that I am biased.

The PI on the front end of the play makes it all that much more painful. ND might have won anyway but that was a huge play.

 

[skyvue]

We weren't getting a call from that officiating crew if our lives depended on it. Taking nothing away from ND -- they played very well -- but it was obviously a closer game than the final score indicated, and home cooking most definitely did NOT come into play.

One penalty called all game on the Irish.

 

[campbest]

Better team on the night won.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Better team on the night won.

That may be true, but it doesn't invalidate any of what people have said about the 'interception/pass interference' or what Skyvue said in general.

 

[Mr.B!!!]

Better team on the night won.

Mentally tougher one did for sure. I thought that it was pass interference and not an interception, but about midway through the second quarter I could see the familiar take OU's best punch and hold on until we fade. Credit ND though, they remind me a little bit of OU 2000, just find ways to win. Now that OU is out of the picture I'm really rooting for KSU, would enjoy Bill Snyder getting a ring.

 

[bocabull]

I thought it should have been overturned but in defense of the replay official it probably didn't meet the high threshold of "indisputable visual evidence".

Regardless after we tied it up they opened a can on us.

 

[campbest]

Mentally tougher one did for sure. I thought that it was pass interference and not an interception, but about midway through the second quarter I could see the familiar take OU's best punch and hold on until we fade. Credit ND though, they remind me a little bit of OU 2000, just find ways to win. Now that OU is out of the picture I'm really rooting for KSU, would enjoy Bill Snyder getting a ring.

Too many mistakes on OU's part, Ikard's snapping the ball too soon, etc. Notre Dame played about as good as you could ask with a redshirt freshman at QB and on the road.

Gotta give it up to them.