This same clown tried to claim that the entire "first foot landing" did not have to be in, in the 2005 Avant "catch", which was only a "catch" in the cheating b1g - he argued with me about that rule ad infinitum despite the fact he was abjectly and definitively WRONG regarding his defend b1g clown cheaters regardless of the actual NCAA Rulebook. BTW, the play was also not Reviewed - which was MANDATORY at the time for all such sideline catches inside 2 minutes of either half (the Replay Review Rules had only been established a year earlier and that play was a MANDATORY Replay Review at the time, but the cheating b1g Officials made the WRONG CALL and conducted no Review despite a Replay Review being MANDATORY on the play! Talk about things that make you go hhhhhmmmm........).
This time, he is referencing a Rule that does not apply to the hit in question and penalty called. In the NCAA Rulebook, a "high hit" on a QB in the act of throwing the football is covered under the NCAA "Targetting Rule" under the additional protections of a "Protected Player" under the rule (which makes a hit initiated to the head or shoulder area a Targetting PF) - no other rule. It is the NFL that has a specific Rule for a "High Hit" on a QB in the act of throwing. This is what I told the obfuscating defend b1g hacks at all cost douche. The b1g hack Official called a penalty for a "Personal Foul High Hit on QB" in the act of a throw - this is the NFL Rule; again the NCAA Violation would be "Targetting" (the only NCAA Rule that applies to high hits on QB while in THE ACT OF THROWING THE FOOTBALL via its "Protected Player" provision).
So dipshit tells me I'm wrong by citing a Rule that DOES NOT EVEN APPLY to the hit in question or Penalty Called. The Rule he cites says in its first sentence, before citing any other prescriptions and circumstances, that the Rule ONLY APPLIES to situations where the hit occurred AFTER the ball had "obviously been thrown" by the QB - again, circumstances that clearly do not apply to the hit in question (he referenced the "Late Hit" Rule on the QB when the hit in question was not ruled a "late hit" - it was clearly a hit on a QB in the act of throwing the football and absurd to claim otherwise). Here is exactly how the rule he cited reads:
College: 9-1-9
SECTION 1. Personal Fouls
Roughing the Passer
ARTICLE 9.
a. No defensive player shall unnecessarily rough a passer, when it is obvious the ball has been thrown. The following actions are illegal, but not limited to:
Again, the Penalty called was for a "High Hit on QB" who was in the act of throwing - it was not a hit where it was "obvious the ball had been thrown". The Penalty for the call made in the NCAA Rulebook is "Targetting" on a "Protected Player", not a "High Hit on QB" in act of throwing (that is the NFL Rule, not the NCAA Rule). The correctly called NCAA Rule (Targetting on a Protected Player) would have been subject to a Mandatory Review which would have been reversed on Review as it clearly does not meet the requirements of the ACTUAL NCAA Rule (not the bs call that the b1g hacks made-up as they went along).
