“The people in the replay booth made a mistake,” Delany said while meeting with reporters at the conference’s basketball media day Sunday. “It wasn’t a mistake of judgment; it was a mistake of an application of the rule. They applied the wrong rule and they applied it improperly.”
And since we're quoting Big Ten officials, I also wanted to remind everyone that Spartan Bob handled the game clock correctly:
The Big Ten Conference ultimately upheld Stehlin's timekeeping; three years later, Dave Parry, the conference's coordinator of football officials, said, "That play, as much as we've put that under a high-powered microscope, was correct. We could not prove that timer wrong."
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“The people in the replay booth made a mistake,” Delany said while meeting with reporters at the conference’s basketball media day Sunday. “It wasn’t a mistake of judgment; it was a mistake of an application of the rule. They applied the wrong rule and they applied it improperly.”
And since we're quoting Big Ten officials, I also wanted to remind everyone that Spartan Bob handled the game clock correctly:
The Big Ten Conference ultimately upheld Stehlin's timekeeping; three years later, Dave Parry, the conference's coordinator of football officials, said, "That play, as much as we've put that under a high-powered microscope, was correct. We could not prove that timer wrong." http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/2001-MSU-vs.-UM-football-game