Doc Saturday notices ND fumble too..

Submitted by fleetwoodzback on

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:

 

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/T-J-Jones-gets-Notre-Dame-in-on-the-goal-line-f?urn=ncaaf-268971

BoiseBlue

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!

SaigonBlue

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.

BlockM

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!

BigTex

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?

Mannix

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

Frank Drebin

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.

TheOracle6

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.

lhglrkwg

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

gbdub

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.