Alabama onside kick

[D UP Clones]

I'm still trying to figure out what Dabo Swinney was going apeshit about after that play. Clearly legal play all the way around. Not even questionable.

I think the farside guy that caught the ball was pretty close to being offsides because the kicker hesitated when kicking the ball.

Don't watch when the kicker gets to the ball watch when he actually makes contact. Unfortunately, the TV crew didn't want to slow it down that much.

 

[JRE1975]

I'm still trying to figure out what Dabo Swinney was going apeshit about after that play. Clearly legal play all the way around. Not even questionable.

He was screaming that no one from Clemson touched the ball first, per my lip reading towards the end if his tirade.

 

[Rogue52]

What VeloClone said. Announcers assumed it was called on the kicker because he was the only person with any body part even remotely close to being off-sides, but the call was on someone else. Rhoads was quoted after the game as saying he was told the individual called off-sides was not the kicker.

The Baylor game was just @Big12Refs being @Big12Refs.

 

[BikeSkiClone]

He was screaming that no one from Clemson touched the ball first, per my lip reading towards the end if his tirade.

He should know that on a kickoff it doesn't matter. Ball is fair game for anyone once past 10 yards.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

I'm still trying to figure out what Dabo Swinney was going apeshit about after that play. Clearly legal play all the way around. Not even questionable.

I don't know how the rule reads exactly, but they had put in a rule where the ball has to bounce at least twice (or something like that) during an on-side kick attempt OR be touched by the receiving team before it becomes a live ball and able to be recovered by the kicking team. I don't remember how the kick actually played out and I just deleted it from my DVR or I'd check. I heard someone refer to this rule earlier today as being what Swinney may have been ****** about.

Also, someone tweeted CW's show this afternoon that Swinney was ****** about the kicker being off side. I think we all concluded two years ago following the BU debacle that a kicker is specifically exempted from being off side.

 

[DurangoCy]

Yeah, I was trying to figure that out:
Everyone onsides? Check
Ball advanced 10+ yards? Check
Receiving team didn't attempt fair catch? Check
No one blocked receiving team player away from ball? Check
Didn't allow advancement of ball? Check

I have no idea what he was arguing. The officials appeared to not really want to hear it, either. Talk to the hand.

What's the rule on this, if one of the Clemson guys was smart enough to do this, but didn't get there. Would Alabama have to let it hit the ground?

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I asked my dad when Rhoads started coaching special teams at Bama.

 

[perivolaki]

What's the rule on this, if one of the Clemson guys was smart enough to do this, but didn't get there. Would Alabama have to let it hit the ground?

I heard Dabo on the radio after the game. He said that they had a similar play called back. I think he said it was last year and the explanation he got was that the receiving team had to be given the opportunity to catch the ball.

He was upset that it was called one way previously and a different way last night.

 

[andybernard]

I was at AnyTime Fitness sitting on the bench between sets and watching the endless Sportcenter coverage of the game last night. They showed the onside kick like 12 times in a row.

Anyways, anyone notice the kickers non kicking foot was way off sides when he kicked it? Hmmm. Why was ISU called for off sides in that Baylor game a couple of years ago? Oh, because ISU performed it? I get it.

This is my favorite part of the story. Completely irrelevant information is the best.

It's like when I start every story with "This morning, in the shower..." just so people have to picture me in the shower.