Photo re: the Sooners and taunting

[Hornius Emeritus]

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

Genius.

 

[longtex]

Watched that. Thinking... this is why you're losing half your games.

 

[ron burgandy]

torbush.

 

[longtex]

Also - FWIW - this is one of the major areas of discussion for rules changes for next season: Unsportsmanlike Conduct as a LIVE ball foul.

Right now all the UC calls are treated as dead ball fouls and the play stands. The helmet-removal in the Bama-Tennessee game on the last play is another example. Had the rule already been changed, it would have been a 15-yard penalty against Bama and another shot at the FG for Tennessee.

The pictured play presumably would go back to the previous LOS, 15 yards back, and replay the down, although if the taunting doesn't take place until the goal line is crossed, the TD would stand since the play is already over. I would hope that such a UC penalty yardage would be next play (extra point) rather than kicking off from your own 15, which seems ridiculous overkill.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Leave it to a gooner.

 

[Dude]

Reminds me of the aggy celebrating during the 77-0 beat down. Know the score.

 

[cochamps]

agree with longtex. They could put some real teeth into the rule by nullifying the play. The only problem I have with that is giving the officials that discretion is scary.

 

[gkp]

SEC would have a heyday with that power.

 

[Texas Jack]

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[TexasGolf]

Broyles is a great player....he would have done very very well at Texas.

He will be playing on Sundays

 

[longtex]

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[BRay2244]

wouldn't that call have negated our game winning td against tOSU in the Fiesta?

 

[toucan82]

excellent point

that proposed rule sucks

 

[longtex]

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[H-D Rider]

UNC (Unsportsmanlike Conduct) usually means a couple of things... Taunting, Excessive Celebration, Verbal Abuse towards another player, coach or official... you get my point!

In this case, the foul is as such that it's an act by the scoring team that doesn't give that team an advantage over the non-scoring team during the play... i.e. Quan's dive into the EZ or Ou's #85 goose-stepping in the picture above, hence the live ball foul treated as a dead ball act! Remember at the end of last years Tech game when Tech had 2 UNC's (Excessive Celebration) after the last score by Crabtree that put the kick-off back to their 7 1/2 yard line, that was a dead ball foul and enforced as such! Since these type fouls are non-action fouls, I don't think the enforcement will ever change!

 

[BRay2244]

I would hope not. I'm all for keeping the game straight and civil, but calling back a TD for a players post TD celebration actions would be a little over the top to prove a point.

 

[ViperHorn]

Let the kids play. If a sooner or an aggy want to highlight their individual accomplishments over a team accomplishment, so be it. The world has figured these two groups out.

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

I was thinking on that very play by Broyles that I wish it was at least a "spot foul."

 

[Mr. Fiesta]

In the Fiesta Bowl, Quan wasn't taunting, He said he looked up at the big screen and saw people catching up to him so he dove into the endzone to make sure he scored. So now it's the ref's discretion to call the penalty. Incorrectly at that.