Game Day: Sixteen go home

Keith McMillan will be at Maine Maritime-Montclair State. I’ll be at Coe-St. John’s. Gordon Mann will be broadcasting Susquehanna-Delaware Valley and Joe Davis will be broadcasting at St. Thomas-Monmouth.

Some pretty good teams will be going home today, as well as some not-so-good teams. Someone has to play the part of Mount St. Mary’s or Florida A&M in this bracket, but that shouldn’t make the trip less memorable for them or make the conference championship any less of a recruiting boost among their prospects.

Later in the day, the site probably will get slow. One of the things we do when we have to keep the site operating under heavy traffic is close down the Daily Dose. We always hope it won’t come to that, but I just wanted you to be forewarned.

Scoreboard, Twitter, Daily Dose, lots of live video (more than half of the games). Plenty of ways to get your fix.

St. John’s and Coe trade fumbles. Then SJU’s Bobby Klint drops a wide-wide-open INT. 13-7 Coe 4:29 2nd.

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57 thoughts on “Game Day: Sixteen go home

  1. The game was not officiated properly. I read the rule book-which is also posted online-and understand the rule. The was I interpreted it was correct, as was the way it has been interpreted following the incorrect ruling. Perhaps I should get my officiating license. Thanks for the suggestion.

  2. It is easy to misinterpret the rules—————why do you think coaches are always griping at the officials. Officials are tested every year and required to attend clinics. It’s like trying to figure out how to mark off penalties when you have multiple infractions on one play. Is it a live ball foul, dead ball foul or is it a live ball foul treated as a dead ball foul. Gets kinda tricky. Like I mentioned, I can’t make a call based on hearsay but from what you described, does sound like it was a ticky-tacky call and should not have been called.

  3. Captain & Jacob:

    As was stated ealier about the on-side kick offside foul. According to rule 6-1-2 “A ball from a free kick formation must be kicked legally and from some pointon Team A’s restraining line (Exception: Rule 6-1-2-d) and on or between the inbouns line.” Also stated in this rule “Each Team A player, except the holder and kicker of a place kick, must be behind the ball.”

    If the kicker were to extend his plant foot beyond the Team A restraining line it is OK. If he were to line up beyond the restraining line that is a FOUL. As for moving the ball back so that the kicker can stand in front of the ball that is a FOUL. Rule 6-1-1 solves that mystery by stating “For any free kick formtion, the kicking team’s restraining line shall be the yard line through the most forward point from which the ball shall be kicked.”

    This situation in which was described occured in a game in which I officiated this year. Team A kicker wanted to line up on the 32 yardline tokick the ball located on the 30. This is a foul and the coach was informed of that. They then wanted to move the ball back to the 28 so the kicker could start in front of the ball. We then informed them if they moved the ball that the yardline in which it was placed would become the new restraining line. They did not like that very much but the rules are the rules.

    Hawks88:

    As for a free kick touching the pylon it is out of bounds. The pylons are all located off of the playing surface out of bounds. In the scenario that you stated a ball carrier going to the goalline and touching the pylon. The runner gets the “goal-line extended” as long as he is or does touch inbounds. If an airborn ball carrier touches the pylon and lands completely out of bounds the ball is given to Team A at the forward most point in which the ball crossed the sideline and no touchdown. This is a tricky situation for some officials as you must determine whether or not the runner was in bounds when he crossed the goalline extended and was he forced ariborne or did so on his own.

    I do not mean to prove anyone wrong but being an official for the past 10 years I see it as part of my avocation to spread the knowledge of the rules.

  4. Mike15witt,
    I am an official also for the past 7 years. I was trying to make that point to Jacob9er. Apparently, I didn’t do a very good job———-of course, I didn’t go into as much detail as you did either but good job for the detail. Coaches always get ticked off when they don’t really know the rules and then a situation arises in a game then you get “We’ve been doing that all year long and nobody has called it” or “I have seen that called in my 25 years of coaching” Good stuff though. Thanks for adding a little light to the subject!

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