Replay Question

[cibai]

In the current replay rules, if that UF fumble gets overturned, can the refs still make a grounding call?

 

[GAVol]

I don't think so. I think it was either going to be a fumble or an incomplete pass

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

GaVol is correct

 

[memvol]

I'm not sure what people are complaining about. Anyway you look at the play it was a fumble. The ball hit the ground behind Leak, after he released it, eliminating the possibility of being a FORWARD PASS. In that situation the ball is live unless it is blown dead by an official. The correct call was made on the field.

 

[OrangeSquare]

My biggest thing was this.....

If he were passing the ball, it would have had more velocity on it instead of simply falling to the turf. The ball would have gotton past the defender, or hit him in the hands or helmet.

When the ball came out, Leak's arm was moving DOWN, not forward. He was about to tuck the ball and take the sack, and the ball fell out of his hand.

Fumble, right call made.

 

[cibai]

In Forde's column this morning, he seems to put that call right behind the oklahoma, oregon call, which I think is BS. My point was, that there is a somewhat inherent flaw in replay, that sometimes if a call is not one thing it will be another, yet in replay it becomes either a call or no call at all. If the call had been overturned the refs effectively would have jobbed the tigers out of a huge loss of yards that would have been a huge factor had a field goal been kicked.

 

[tidwell]

Looked like a fumble to me.

Seriously.