After the penalty, Pouncey was animatedly 'discussing' something with one of the officials. Then he went back to the line and stopped doing the head movement. I had the sense that the official said the calls would continue to go that way if the nose tackle continued to make contact after the head movement. I would be interested in hearing the SEC head of officials explain the subtleties of this as it seems strange to me that it's not a false start unless the defense reacts. Other types of false starts aren't like that so what makes this different?
Rob From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Badrish Davanagere Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Officiating After LSU figured it out and nose tackle came and hit him, Pouncey did stop tilting his head, I thought. Also, as far as grabbing the jersey goes...yes, liek Sandy says, it happens all the time and all receivers do this. BTW, I do hate Lundquist and don't care too much for Danielson at all. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Sandy Alonso <[email protected]> wrote: See below for my attempt at answering your questions... :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Helen Huntley <mailto:[email protected]> To: gatortalk <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:04 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Officiating Whew! What a relief that the game is over. On the touchdown, the announcers indicated Riley could have been called for grabbing the defender's jersey. What do you think? Was it something the officials just didn't see or was it a good no call? What do they teach the receivers as far as what they should do and what they should avoid in trying to get separation? It's my understanding that it definitely can be called as holding on the receiver...but, like holding on the line, it's one of those things that happens on most every play. In the replay, though, it didn't seem to me that Riley's jersey grab REALLY was the cause of the defender not keeping up with him...when Riley grabbed his jersey, the guy had already turned and slowed as though he thought Riley Cooper had stopped behind him to catch the ball. I also was confused about the center's tilting his head to indicate the ball was about to be snapped. I got the impression from the announcers that it's OK to do that as long as the defender doesn't come across and hit the center. If he just comes cross or hits someone other than the center, it's defensive offsides, but if he hits the center it's offensive? Can anybody shed any light on that? Thanks. Maybe I mis-heard what they were saying on the broadcast, but I thought the reason Pouncey stopped tilting his head was because LSU finally figured out it was the signal of the ball being hiked in a silent snap count, thus why the LSU defender broke through and "blew up" Pouncey early in the 2nd half. It seemed to me the reason for abandoning that signal (last year he'd do a pumping sort of motion with his arm prior to the snap) was because it was now signaling LSU and they were reacting to it. I'm sorta mystified why there wasn't some sort of other "backup signal" just for this reason. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
