Excessive celebration!?! Are you kidding me

The rule is dumb in that it takes points off the board. Tack on the 15 after the fact. Whether he was taunting or not can be debated ad nauseum, but he was going to score regardless. It wasn't like he was Deion Sanders high-stepping into the endzone. He stuck his arms out.

 

Looks like "YEAH!" to me

 

Is that picture "excessive" Really? Next time just frown tigers. damn!:rolleye33:

 

It wasn't called for "excessive"; rather, "taunting" and it was on way TO endzone.

 

Just now watching ESPN and they did the thing with May & Holz arguing before 'the judge' about this. The 'win' went to Holz (arguing that rule should *stay* as is); May challenged *everyone* to email espn about how ridiculous it (the rule as it was applied) is.

 

LSU Punter Scores Touchdown, Then Gets Points Taken Off Board For Taunting | Saturday Down South

Not a single SEC coach on the committee. Ironic since SEC teams make it to the national championships. You would think they would get a say.

 

It's a ridiculous rule, and we had a multi-page thread in the off-season about it. We knew, at that time, that we WOULD have the new rule called against us this year. I would've expected it against Alabama.

Was he "taunting"? Maybe, maybe not. Taunting is too subjective a call to make. The rule is the problem, though, giving much more power to refs (especially SEC refs) than they should have.

 

That's what May was saying/arguing... that it's a ridiculous rule.

 

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I saw a youtube vid of a recent DivIII (I think it was) game play. It was a field goal attempt that was blocked. After the block the team on offense walked towards sideline as well as the defense of the other team. That is all but ONE defensive player. He realized the ball was still 'live', no whistle had been blown, so he scooped the ball up and ran to the other endzone unopposed and scored 2 pts and that play won the game for them by 1 pt. Shows that player initiative can be all the difference.