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[PhPanther1]

what a terrible ruling college football has. Not a Notre Dame fan, but Studstill should not have been ejected. They need to add "intent to injure" to their rule.

 

[VAPITTALUM]

what a terrible ruling college football has. Not a Notre Dame fan, but Studstill should not have been ejected. They need to add "intent to injure" to their rule.

how would you enforce intent? I get what you're saying , but that would be a complately gray area.

 

[PhPanther1]

how would you enforce intent? I get what you're saying , but that would be a complately gray area.

If you are going out of your way for a knock out blow, that's intent. If he is crossing the middle and helmets colide because you both dropped your helmet, that's not intent. Watch Ryan Clark and you'll see plenty of intent.

 

[VAPITTALUM]

If you are going out of your way for a knock out blow, that's intent. If he is crossing the middle and helmets colide because you both dropped your helmet, that's not intent. Watch Ryan Clark and you'll see plenty of intent.

I could see that on plays involving the QB, but would be very difficult to enforce in the secondary. The plays happen so quickly and you could almost always make an argument there was no intent to harm the player.

We've seen so many missed calls that have decided games, I'm just not sure the current group of refs could be entrusted with making such a decision.

 

[PhPanther1]

So throw everybody out the way they are doing now?

 

[VAPITTALUM]

So throw everybody out the way they are doing now?

I'm not saying that, they need to make damn sure the player made helmet to helmet contact or targeted the head. They do this through replay upstairs, so I rely don't think the system is broken. unfortunately, as with all rulings/calls, there are going to be mistakes.