Alamo Bowl vs Michigan

Foppa said:
I'm glad NU won that, but I'm really glad the Dumbsh*t era is over.
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:yeah

Loved watching Zac Taylor sling it around though, probably one of the biggest reasons why we had decent seasons in 05 and 06, as well as a few defensive guys that were coached under Bo.

Anywho, I was thinking about this game the other day, after the Colorado and Michigan game, I thought Callahan had turned the corner and we were back on our way up, he erased earlier doubts in the year with losses to Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, as well as the awful 04 season including where I started questioning him when Dailey ran out of bounds against Southern Miss, a game in which we should have easily won.

If it was a Pelini lead defense, I highly doubt the end of that game was as big of a mess as it was.

So in regards to that last play, how were we NOT flagged with too many players on the field? Surely there were right? Was that ever discussed or ruled? Obviously since we won and there was not a play after that, everything was "okay" but I just remember standing in awe of what happened, what almost happened, and how I was going to throw something IF that something happened. Thankfully not though.

Can anyone sum that up?

 
druski_2k5 said:
Foppa said:
I'm glad NU won that, but I'm really glad the Dumbsh*t era is over.
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:yeah

Loved watching Zac Taylor sling it around though, probably one of the biggest reasons why we had decent seasons in 05 and 06, as well as a few defensive guys that were coached under Bo.

Anywho, I was thinking about this game the other day, after the Colorado and Michigan game, I thought Callahan had turned the corner and we were back on our way up, he erased earlier doubts in the year with losses to Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, as well as the awful 04 season including where I started questioning him when Dailey ran out of bounds against Southern Miss, a game in which we should have easily won.

If it was a Pelini lead defense, I highly doubt the end of that game was as big of a mess as it was.

So in regards to that last play, how were we NOT flagged with too many players on the field? Surely there were right? Was that ever discussed or ruled? Obviously since we won and there was not a play after that, everything was "okay" but I just remember standing in awe of what happened, what almost happened, and how I was going to throw something IF that something happened. Thankfully not though.

Can anyone sum that up?
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If I recall correctly: We had officials from the Sun Belt conference at that game. Whoever oversees the officials did say they should have flagged both teams (Fixed it, see post below) since both had left the sidelines and entered the field of play. It would have been one more play from the original line of scrimmage. But then again, I could be a completely wrong. The Callahan era, much like Vietnam for another generation, is something that I try to block from memory. :-)

 
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I was incorrect...from the Sun Belt officiating web site: My link

Much discussion and television time has been given to the last play of the game. The play began with two seconds on the clock. Seven backward passes were thrown on this play. The 6th pass was muffed and picked up by a Michigan player who pitched the ball backward to a teammate who ran the ball down the Michigan sideline and was finally tackled out of bounds at the Nebraska 15 yard line with no time on the clock. All three reviews agreed that all seven of the backward passes were correctly ruled by the crew. Two of the reviewers noted that the crew was in the correct position to rule on all of these backward passes. After the muffed backward pass (#6), the Nebraska players and coaches in the team area came onto the field thinking the game was over. Some players and coaches from Michigan also came onto the field at this time. During the last advance by the Michigan player (after backward pass #7) there were players and coaches from both teams on the field. The officials ruled that the actions by the players and coaches who came off the sideline were Unsportsmanlike Conduct fouls, not illegal participation fouls. Unsportsmanlike conduct fouls that occur during a live ball situation are “live ball fouls, penalized as dead ball fouls,” and are enforced from the succeeding spot. Since there was no time left in the game, there was no succeeding spot, thus the game was over. The ruling by the crew was a correct one, but from a Public Relations stand-point, the Referee should have made a post-game announcement that explained the ruling. Since there were upwards of 300 people on the field after the play ended, the Referee decided that he could not make such an announcement and that the prudent thing to do was leave the field. All three reviewers felt that an announcement by the Referee would have been good “PR”, but acknowledged that this announcement would probably not been heard.
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SaturnDrew said:
I was incorrect...from the Sun Belt officiating web site: My link

Much discussion and television time has been given to the last play of the game. The play began with two seconds on the clock. Seven backward passes were thrown on this play. The 6th pass was muffed and picked up by a Michigan player who pitched the ball backward to a teammate who ran the ball down the Michigan sideline and was finally tackled out of bounds at the Nebraska 15 yard line with no time on the clock. All three reviews agreed that all seven of the backward passes were correctly ruled by the crew. Two of the reviewers noted that the crew was in the correct position to rule on all of these backward passes. After the muffed backward pass (#6), the Nebraska players and coaches in the team area came onto the field thinking the game was over. Some players and coaches from Michigan also came onto the field at this time. During the last advance by the Michigan player (after backward pass #7) there were players and coaches from both teams on the field. The officials ruled that the actions by the players and coaches who came off the sideline were Unsportsmanlike Conduct fouls, not illegal participation fouls. Unsportsmanlike conduct fouls that occur during a live ball situation are “live ball fouls, penalized as dead ball fouls,” and are enforced from the succeeding spot. Since there was no time left in the game, there was no succeeding spot, thus the game was over. The ruling by the crew was a correct one, but from a Public Relations stand-point, the Referee should have made a post-game announcement that explained the ruling. Since there were upwards of 300 people on the field after the play ended, the Referee decided that he could not make such an announcement and that the prudent thing to do was leave the field. All three reviewers felt that an announcement by the Referee would have been good “PR”, but acknowledged that this announcement would probably not been heard.
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Hmm, good stuff there, thanks for the info, hadn't heard that before, I didn't think there was an official ruling, just everyone ran off the field.

 
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