League Suspends Referees After Miami-Duke Game

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[Perdogg]

The Atlantic Coast Conference has suspended the officiating crew that worked the Miami-Duke game for two league games following what it called "a series of errors" on the final play.

[Moonman62]

Your questions are irrelevant to my statements. I’m not surprised.

Look at the replay again. Here is a link so you can look at it frame by frame.

http://rowvid.com/?v=3M7Xab3E9sc

Here is the relevant rule:

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Player Possession:

The ball is in player possession when a player has the ball firmly in his grasp by holding or controlling it while contacting the ground inbounds.

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So whether a player is holding the ball or attempting to pass it, it must be firmly in his grasp. The replay clearly shows that he is pushing the ball with his hand, therefore it is not firmly in his grasp when his knee goes down, and does not have possession. The ball hitting the ground a few feet away is also evidence that he did not have control of the ball with a firm grasp. It’s not a forward pass, so the ball is live.

Here is the rule for overturning a call on replay:

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ARTICLE 2

The instant replay process operates under the fundamental
assumption that the ruling on the field is correct.

The replay official may reverse a ruling if and only if the video evidence convinces him beyond all doubt that the ruling was incorrect.

Without such indisputable video evidence, the replay official must allow the ruling to stand.

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There is no indisputable evidence beyond all doubt provided by the video, therefore the ruling on the field stands.

The NCAA football rules are here:

http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/FR15.pdf

[Paradox]

There is no indisputable evidence beyond all doubt provided by the video, therefore the ruling on the field stands.

I had looked into this myself and came to the same conclusion, I also found a twitter feed of an referee (forgot and lost the link) that explained how it all went down and how the no calls and picked up flag were actually correct. When the knee hits the ground, the ball is not in his control. Still photos dont do this point justice, the back was being flicked backwards and was in effect, a fumble at that time. You could argue the other way as well, but since the call on the field was that the player/ball was NOT down, it could not be overturned with the video evidence.

Its a shame one of the great/whacky plays in NCAA football history has been tarnished by the gang of A-holes known as the MSM.