Muffed punt was touched by ISU. But the returner interference was obvious. The wasn’t blocked into the returner. Was he guided in that direction by the blocker? Again, no. The Hawk was the one directing where he went.
F*** The Refs!
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And it was absolutely a penalty, even Hassel agrees
No he didn’t. He caught it at the 12 and was tackled at the 5 I just rewatched to confirm
Haven’t seen a replay, but from my seat, it definitely looked like ISU blocked into returner.
Especially now with so much on the line re: conference standing. sure looked like a B1G crew was trying to help a B1G team beat a "lesser" conference opponent.
Also on the Iowa State "personal foul", you can see #70 on Iowa kick the Iowa State player.
(~7:24 in the video above)
(~7:24 in the video above)
KidSilverhair
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On the muffed punt, the official call was that ISU touched the punt. But you can’t say with any certainty that he actually did touch it.
On replay, there’s absolutely no way to tell if it touched him or not. I’m fine with that part of the call on the field standing, there was no clear and obvious evidence to overturn it - but also nobody can tell me flat-out “the returner touched the ball first” because nobody can tell that on the replay. He might have, he might not have, but there’s no proof, and that’s why the call stood.
Picking up the flag for fair-catch interference was extremely dicey, though.
I know returning kicks is very difficult, but that returner should have gotten away from the Iowa cover guy as soon as he saw him barreling at him. (And don’t get me started on the later play with the kickoff return guy signaling fair catch when he wasn’t even the guy fielding the kick. That was really boneheaded.)
On replay, there’s absolutely no way to tell if it touched him or not. I’m fine with that part of the call on the field standing, there was no clear and obvious evidence to overturn it - but also nobody can tell me flat-out “the returner touched the ball first” because nobody can tell that on the replay. He might have, he might not have, but there’s no proof, and that’s why the call stood.
Picking up the flag for fair-catch interference was extremely dicey, though.
I know returning kicks is very difficult, but that returner should have gotten away from the Iowa cover guy as soon as he saw him barreling at him. (And don’t get me started on the later play with the kickoff return guy signaling fair catch when he wasn’t even the guy fielding the kick. That was really boneheaded.)
Iowa was closer to being shut out than they were winning that game. The punt return interference, the semi questionable pass interference on Iowa State, the unsportsmanlike penalty -- all gifts to Iowa
When you are 20pts better to win by 3 **** dem B1G refs and **** Iowa
And it goes both ways. The Big 12 refs at Mizzou today did not have a great game.
Some posters are saying it so matter of fact that Townsend touched it like it's obvious. I must be going blind.
So yeah what the hell happened here? Did they call forward progress at the 10 yd line? From my view he was downed at the 5.
Finally, an explanation. I wish the broadcast could have bothered to inform us.
The penalty is to be enforced from first touch which his return slot more than what the penalty enforcement would’ve been.
KidSilverhair
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At last - this makes sense. Thank you. You think Fox might hire you as a broadcast consultant?
Two flags! Two different refs threw a flag for fair catch interference. How do you say it didn't happen??
