What was the deal with the onside kick?

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  1. houtiger

    houtiger Founding Member

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    Yea, they screwed up twice. I don't think you can hit our guy short of the ball going 10 yards. They hit our guy at 9 yards, before he touched it, and that prevented him from catching it. Les was right IMO. I am not a rules expert, but that's what I thought.
     
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  2. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    We touched it first before 10 yards, so that part of the rule goes by the wayside.

    The only question is does the receiving team have a right to try to the field the ball uninterrupted if the ball is not past 10 yards? I don't believe so.
     
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  3. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    they review crap all the time in the sec and get it wrong. all the freaking time.


    the rule is simple. the ball must go 10 yards unless the receiving team touches it first.

    however, the guy blew us up before it went 10. terrible call.


    typical inept refs in an sec game.
     
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  4. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    do you know this for a fact, though?
     
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  5. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    I don't think so, either. I believe it must be a free-for-all. But it was just a strange looking play all the way around.

    Maybe I just couldn't believe that we'd screwed up YET AGAIN in that half.
     
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  6. 65Grad

    65Grad Maturity is Overrated

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    The bottom line is: none of us know for sure.
     
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  7. COramprat

    COramprat Simma Da Na

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    That's the way I see it. If the ball hasn't traveled 10 yards then and the receiving team gets decked before he touches it then it should be a penalty.
     
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  8. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    This was eventually what we determined on the phone. It was very close, but we thought we were hit just a fraction of a second before we touched the ball.
     
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  9. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    Yes, this is what I think.

    It would be the same thing if a team squib kicked into the middle of the field and the ball is just bouncing around and then you see the kicking team blowing up a player trying to get to the ball so his teammate can recover it instead. It's legal.
     
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  10. Nutriaitch

    Nutriaitch Fear the Buoy

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    Alfred Blue, who i've read has the best hands of all our rbs
     
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