Crazy ending to BYU Washington

bad rule, not a bad call so much.... it is in the rule book.

Give BYU credit for blocking the extra point.

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Call was right according to the rule, even if it didn't seem excessive.

Ultimately WASHINGTON's players, not the ref lost the game. Blame the OL not the ref for the loss.
 
Thanks for the rule posting, Highland Park. That forces me to retract my earlier slamming of the call, when I thought he was being flagged under the "celebration" clause of the Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty (which would indeed have been a bs call). I didn't realize that throwing the ball up was a black-and-white penalty at any time during the game. (I might argue they should rescind the "after a score" portion of that rule, but that's a different issue). I still think it determined the outcome of the game, but since it really wasn't a judgment call on the part of the ref, and is something that every player should be aware of, then I can only blame the player for temporarily losing himself in the moment. Understandable, but ultimately still guilty.
 
By the way, the idea that it isn't a judgment call, therefore the ref had no choice, doesn't hold much water to me. If that were the case, refs should get downgraded on about 90% of plays for not calling holding. All refs call it based on how they perceive it to affect the play, which isn't any different from throwing "unsportsmanlike conduct" flags based on if they actually saw an act that was unsportsmanlike or not.
 
Bob, you can apply that same rulebook logic to calling offensive holding. The judgment call that would need to made in not throwing the flag on the Washington QB is the same type of judgment call that is made multiple times per game by officials who don't throw flags at gattling gun rates of fire for offensive holding.
 
Having read HP's posting of the rule, it appears this is more of a delay-of-game issue than an unsportsmanlike-conduct one. So the call was clearly correct. No judgment necessary; the player threw the ball in the air, he was penalized, end of story.

Comparing this to "holding" is silly. That is the most ambiguous penalty in sports. It's like comparing "charging" in the NBA with cursing the opposing fans. One's judgment, the other's obvious.
 
I'd have ejected him. That punk kid practically spiked the ball right into the ref's face and spit on his children. We have no room for that kind of celebratory display in college football. Fry him.
 
It's clearly a penalty, there is no gray area that can be overlooked. Read the rule and watch the clip. He throws the ball straight up in the air in celebration. That call gets made every single time and if it doesn't, the ref ****** up by not calling it.
 
This is the most overrated thing I have ever seen. They weren't going for 2 Willingham does not have the balls and besides you can see him put his index finger up they were going for the extra point.

The only thing UW got screwed of was being even more embarrased cause there kick would of been blocked from the 3 instead of the 18.
 
I stand corrected on the ref being wrong, however they have to do something about that rule. It takes so much away from the game. A play at the end of the game like that to pull within an extra point is going to get some emotion. Sad.
 
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