Exhibit A: Offensive Pass Interference....
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Actions that constitute offensive pass interference include but are not limited to:
(a) Blocking downfield by an offensive player prior to the ball being touched.
(b) Initiating contact with a defender by shoving or pushing off thus creating a separation in an attempt to catch a pass.
(c) Driving through a defender who has established a position on the field.
(a) Blocking downfield by an offensive player prior to the ball being touched.
(b) Initiating contact with a defender by shoving or pushing off thus creating a separation in an attempt to catch a pass.
(c) Driving through a defender who has established a position on the field.
Almost every pass play could be called pass interference one way or another. Well, maybe not in the Egg Bowl because 75% of the passes were uncatchable.
Offensive pass interference by a Team A player beyond the neutral zone
during a legal forward pass play in which a forward pass crosses the
neutral zone is contact that interferes with a Team B eligible player. It is
the responsibility of the offensive player to avoid the opponents. It is not
offensive pass interference (A.R. 7-3-8-VI, VII, XIII, XVIII and XIX):
1. When, after the snap, a Team A ineligible player immediately charges
and contacts an opponent at a point not more than one yard beyond the
neutral zone and does not continue the contact more than three yards
beyond the neutral zone.
2. When two or more eligible players are making a simultaneous and bona
fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either
team have equal rights to the ball (A.R. 7-3-8-XII).
3. When the pass is in flight and two or more eligible players are in the area
where they might receive or intercept the pass and an offensive player in
that area impedes an opponent, and the pass is not catchable.
during a legal forward pass play in which a forward pass crosses the
neutral zone is contact that interferes with a Team B eligible player. It is
the responsibility of the offensive player to avoid the opponents. It is not
offensive pass interference (A.R. 7-3-8-VI, VII, XIII, XVIII and XIX):
1. When, after the snap, a Team A ineligible player immediately charges
and contacts an opponent at a point not more than one yard beyond the
neutral zone and does not continue the contact more than three yards
beyond the neutral zone.
2. When two or more eligible players are making a simultaneous and bona
fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either
team have equal rights to the ball (A.R. 7-3-8-XII).
3. When the pass is in flight and two or more eligible players are in the area
where they might receive or intercept the pass and an offensive player in
that area impedes an opponent, and the pass is not catchable.
Copy/pasted from the rulebook: http://www.ncaapublicatio...13-8391-54f15136079d.pdf
Hodge clearly was trying to catch the football, as was Washington. Basically, you can knock over the defender if you do in during an attempt to catch the ball - which clearly was the case. Offensive pass interference is not the correct choice here.
In that pic...
1. Has the ball gotten there yet? Already been tipped?
2. Did the receiver get run into by the DB or did the receiver go over the back of the DB?
This is stupid. It was two guys going after the ball, the receiver got a lucky bounce, somehow stayed focused on where the ball was, and made a great play.
1. Has the ball gotten there yet? Already been tipped?
2. Did the receiver get run into by the DB or did the receiver go over the back of the DB?
This is stupid. It was two guys going after the ball, the receiver got a lucky bounce, somehow stayed focused on where the ball was, and made a great play.
Both players have an equal right to the ball if neither has established position over the other, but once one player establishes position, the other player has to go around him. He can't go over or through him (unless he somehow goes over him without touching him). Assuming the contact occurred before the ball was touched, that's pass interferance.</p>
Is the defender being pushed to the ground or is the receiver still on the way up? If the defender is being pushed down, then it's pass interference. If a defender or receiver has better position on you, you cannot push that player in trying to catch the ball. The trying to catch rule is more for pre-catch collisions where the defender is trying to catch the ball versus when he is not trying to catch the ball.
Both players are going for the ball and neither has established position. If you watch the video of the play it's not pass interference.
...doesn't mean it shouldn't be called. As others have said, if the roles are reversed, there's a flag. And if both players have an equal right to the ball, then by extension, the pass interference rules should apply to both. If you can have defensive pass interference with both players going for the ball, you can have offensive pass interference.
3 seconds is rarely called, too.
3 seconds is rarely called, too.
....the "no ref is going to call it" argument doesn't mean it shouldn't be called. And the video to me looks like there should've been a flag. Washington had position. Hodge made contact with him before the ball got there.
<blockquote style="font-weight: bold;"> 2. When two or more eligible players are making a simultaneous and bona
fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either
team have equal rights to the ball (A.R. 7-3-8-XII).[/quote]
What do you think Shay Hodge is doing, giving him a reacharound?
fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either
team have equal rights to the ball (A.R. 7-3-8-XII).[/quote]
What do you think Shay Hodge is doing, giving him a reacharound?
...then the reverse shouldn't be defensive pass interference. And we all know it would be. Maybe the rule is written stupidly.
I can tell that picture was after Hodge had already tipped the ball to himself. The offensive pass interference occurred before that when Hodge's right arm hit Washington in the helmet and right shoulder and Hodge pushed Washington down ward to be able to go over and tip the ball with his left hand. Hodge definitely went through Washington to get to the ball and committed offensive P.I.
...that's the only consistent thing. Of course, we all know what would've happened, but that doesn't change the fact that it would've been a bad call.