Doc Saturday notices ND fumble too..
that saw the same thing that somehow no one at notre dame stadium saw on T.J. Jones' TD fumble/drop/i'm a douche play. Dr Saturday has an article up about it.
To recap from last night's lesson, children, even when you are running free in the open field with no defenders around you, the ball must be in your possession when you cross the plane of the goal line to count as a touchdown. Obviously, highly touted Notre Dame freshman T.J. Jones wasn't paying attention in class:
September 11th, 2010 at 10:07 PM ^
and i've hit idot mode tonight trying to embed the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0teQMcJ211w&feature=player_embedded
September 11th, 2010 at 11:41 PM ^
Is it magical?
September 11th, 2010 at 10:06 PM ^
Talk about a ND home field advantage. How do the replay people miss that one but yet somehow review Shaw's foot out of bounds ???
September 11th, 2010 at 10:36 PM ^
pry has something to do with ND quickly kicking the XP after Jone's gaffe, and Michigan being forced to take a timeout after Shaw went down on an injury following the play, although I must agree that basically any questionable call went ND's way.
Great win and GO BLUE!
September 11th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
that particular gaffe...that god damned ridiculous PI call on Cullen Christian...
I feel great: The homers for ND didn't get to screw us out of this one
September 11th, 2010 at 10:07 PM ^
I'm surprised he wasn't flagged for excessive celebration when he did the "I can't hear you" gesture.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:13 PM ^
....for you.
Also...
September 11th, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^
thank you kind sir, i have been humbled
September 11th, 2010 at 10:22 PM ^
How the hell do the refs miss THAT move (which in itself is a fumble AND excessive celebration) FOLLOWED by his "I can't hear you" gesture to the crowd?
That is exactly the lack of class that certain nd players displayed today (NOT all, I agree).
Man, if that would have cost MICHIGAN the game........ugly.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
GOOOOOOOOS FRAH BAH...
Dumb play. Bring it up to every ND person that tells you we got all the breaks and they should have won. They didn't. We did. WOO!
September 11th, 2010 at 10:19 PM ^
I think the article suggested that this should have been a touchback and Michigan's ball on the 20. While I know it wasn't a touchdown, unless Michigan picked up the ball or it went out of the back of the endzone, how could it have been Michigan's ball? Did anyone see what happened to the ball after he left it in the endzone? If a ND player picked it up, wouldn't it have still been a ND TD?
September 11th, 2010 at 10:36 PM ^
The play was probably called dead. If so, they'd probably call touchback. Or maybe they'd look at who was the closest to the ball (other than Jones)
September 11th, 2010 at 11:14 PM ^
If the play is called dead, it's a non-reviewable play because you can't say with 100% certainty the outcome. Right?
September 11th, 2010 at 11:26 PM ^
If the ball is fumbled forward into the end zone it is a touch back regardless if ND picked it up. I'm sure the momentum carried the ball into the end zone so it should of have been Michigan's ball at the 20.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:24 PM ^
have called after a review. The next person to touch the ball the official I'm sure.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:26 PM ^
Harmon and Mayock must have been told to leave it alone because they didn't run a replay until after the commercial break. Shaw's foot OB was run immediately. Doesn't the reply booth go by the network replays then make a call down? Not sure.
But that was a fairly big play (the endzone drop) and nothing, NOTHING, was mentioned about it anymore after the PAT. They could have at least covered the scenario of what would happen after the fact nobody recovered the ball and was 'live' even thought the play was blown dead after the TD
September 11th, 2010 at 10:49 PM ^
Hammond and Co. also seemed to use the NBCEE It feature a lot more for UM plays as well. For instance, on the play at the end of the first half, they never once broke out the feature to see if the WR's left foot was on the groud when he had possession before his right landed out of bounds. However, as you stated, they were very quick to use it against the Shaw run, as well as many other times in the game. It just seemed very convenient.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:53 PM ^
Were we watching the same game? Because I definitely remember them saying something about it, then showing the replay, then showing the XP. It happened very quickly, and Michigan didn't know to take a TO.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:17 PM ^
they definitely said he might have let go of the ball before crossing the line and played the replay but with basically the same shot shown above, they also said that, from that angle, they can't tell if he's crossed the line or not.
September 12th, 2010 at 1:55 AM ^
That was total bullshit though, since his foot obviously comes down outside of the end zone in the frame immediately after the screen cap above. F those homer announcers, he fumbled the ball.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:27 PM ^
I'm just surprised that this clip has been allowed to see the light of day, since it portrays ND in a less-than-glamorous light.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
"Botched call results in undeserved score."
I like it. Imagine how pissed we would all be if Michigan had lost that game in the final moments.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:07 PM ^
I love how the ND officiating crew totally just let that slide. The refs were trying to beat us but shoelace wouldnt allow it. Jesus tried to beat us, but shoelace again would not allow it.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
Disclaimer: I'm a Michigan fan, and love tripping up ND for a 2nd straight year. HOWEVA...
The officials were from the Big Ten Conference. It was mentioned near the beginning of the game on the television broadcast.
September 12th, 2010 at 1:57 AM ^
you can't bribe a big ten official?
September 12th, 2010 at 12:58 AM ^
it was SO OBVIOUS. it was completely out of his posession by the one. it needs to be standard practice soon to be checking that kind of stuff. it happened in WVU-Marshall too last night on the Marshall 90+ yd reception the receiver ditched it early. they've gotta find a way to accurately call that stuff
September 12th, 2010 at 1:42 AM ^
I would have laughed my ass off if that had been called a fumble, but I'm glad the game wasn't decided on the call. On that play, ND beat us fair and square and earned a touchdown.
September 12th, 2010 at 2:09 AM ^
That play was so obvious in the stands to anyone wearing a block M, can't believe it wasn't called.