Dirty play and Officiating

[Landlord]

If a lineman gets blocked into a quarterback low, you think he still gets flagged for roughing the passer? I do.

 

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

"Dirty play"?! C'mon, Fans, get over it. I thought BYU played a well coached, clean and disciplined game and they have some great athletes on their team: namely those beastly receivers they have. Bad hits, some they can happen, but were in no way intentional, it's just whining to say so. Give them credit for the W, they earned it every bit as much as we did had it gone the other way. I thought the refs called a good game too, BTW. NE just needed to make one more play and guess what, we didn't.

BYU: respect.

Wut?



Diving at a players knees, from behind, is dirty, no matter how you slice it.

 

[Landlord]

People can make the argument about whether it was intentional or not, but it was clearly illegal and dangerous, and warrants an automatic expulsion from the game.

 

[Saunders]

Oh, I guess you're re-defining the English language now to suit your arguments despite the benches nearly emptying not once, but twice--or was it 3 times? Whatever works for ya..

There weren't punches being thrown when we played Miami. Quick, how many guys got bloodied or cold cocked? Oh wait... NONE.

 

[Saunders]

People can make the argument about whether it was intentional or not, but it was clearly illegal and dangerous, and warrants an automatic expulsion from the game.

100% agreed. We've seen guys flagged and ejected for much, MUCH less egregious plays. In the NFL, that's a $50k fine at minimum.

 

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

Stop complaining about the punter hit. Your own player blocked the BYU player into him. You have no one to blame but yourselves for that one.

Yeah, this is what I saw as well. Our own guy blocked a BYU player into Foltz.

https://vine.co/v/eT9gj6u6FBh

 

[C N Red]

Were the refs B1G refs? If so they should be let go. They acted like they had no clue what was going on most of the time. It took them 5 seconds to figure out we were taking a delay of game on a punt upon many other mistakes and many missed calls.

 

[C N Red]

This is the same team that got into a full on brawl - not just a shoving match - with a team in their bowl game. If you don't think that the Sutton hit was dirty, I guess I don't know what to tell you. There's no way he didn't see the ball fly past - he was looking right at Sutton before taking him out. He had plenty of time to stop, but he didn't want to. End of story.

Did you actually watch the bowl game? Or just the fight on sportscenter?

Look out. Here comes the justification for the bowl game brawl.

"BYU players were only defending their brothers."

"Memphis played dirty all game."

"Just make them do up-downs."

Lol knapp. But the stigma the Byu players had to live with all off season was horrible and punishment enough you know.

 

[commando]

"Dirty play"?! C'mon, Fans, get over it. I thought BYU played a well coached, clean and disciplined game and they have some great athletes on their team: namely those beastly receivers they have. Bad hits, some they can happen, but were in no way intentional, it's just whining to say so. Give them credit for the W, they earned it every bit as much as we did had it gone the other way. I thought the refs called a good game too, BTW. NE just needed to make one more play and guess what, we didn't.

BYU: respect.

Wut?



Diving at a players knees, from behind, is dirty, no matter how you slice it.

ouch....that does show an deliberate attempt to hit the knee. he clearly looked at his target before he hit there

 

[shyndy]

The other sad thing is is had Nebraska ended up winning this thread would have never been made.

Nah, it would have been made, even if we had won by 50. When you get booed at Memorial stadium for something, you done screwed up.

plus we love to b!^@h about refs, myself especially

 

[commando]

i know it doesn't mean anything now....but i am wondering if we know which players were suspended by BYU?

 

[shyndy]

I think they showed everyone was playing on TV, don't think anyone was suspended. But don't worry they did a bunch of community service

 

[Haspula]

This is the same team that got into a full on brawl - not just a shoving match - with a team in their bowl game.

Hmmm, I seem to recall a team last year, got in 2-3 brawls with this team from, hmmm, the S. FL area I think it was. Maybe somebody can help me out here...

That's not a brawl

Oh, I guess you're re-defining the English language now to suit your arguments despite the benches nearly emptying not once, but twice--or was it 3 times? Whatever works for ya..

You have no idea what a brawl is. Pushing and shoving happens in every college football game.

These are brawls:

 

[Landlord]

This is the same team that got into a full on brawl - not just a shoving match - with a team in their bowl game.

Hmmm, I seem to recall a team last year, got in 2-3 brawls with this team from, hmmm, the S. FL area I think it was. Maybe somebody can help me out here...

That's not a brawl

Oh, I guess you're re-defining the English language now to suit your arguments despite the benches nearly emptying not once, but twice--or was it 3 times? Whatever works for ya..

You have no idea what a brawl is. Pushing and shoving happens in every college football game.

These are brawls:

What happened last night on O St between a group of angry women was more of a brawl than anything that happened with Miami and Nebraska last season.

 

[Enhance]

I've been trying to give the BYU player the benefit of the doubt, and in fact was trying to make an argument here for that. After watching that gif though, I can't.

His head begins to lower AFTER the ball goes just beyond Sutton, but is still in the air. And, the BYU defender's head is still level with Sutton's upper body, which means he HAD to have seen he didn't have the ball and therefore had to have known he was hitting a player for no reason.

But, let's say you still want to make the argument that he was in the motion of tackling. Why in the name of everything football is that the proper way to try and tackle a player to the ground? Deliberately going for the knees like that, when there's really no doubt in my mind that defender knew Sutton didn't have the ball. What kind of technique is that? It's cheap, it's lazy, it's deliberate and it's poor sportsmanship.

I would argue the same thing if roles were reversed. Going for the knees is a horrible way to tackle someone and not even proper technique. That kind of stuff should be worthy of a penalty, regardless of the fact that it was a late hit.