Another horrid ejection in Cal-NW

Absolutely terrible. Hopefully replay reverses this...

FYI, the Pac-12 reversed this penalty and half-game ban, saying McCain should not have been ejected.

https://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_24001070/pac-12-rescinds-targeting-ban-cals-mccain

quote:

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BERKELEY, Calif.—The Pac-12 has ruled that California defensive end Chris McCain should not be suspended for the first half this week because a failure of the instant replay process led to his incorrect ejection. McCain was ejected in the fourth quarter Saturday against No. 22 Northwestern for targeting. Because the penalty came in the second half, McCain was supposed to miss the first half of the upcoming game against Portland State. But the Pac-12 said Monday that because of a technical failure of the replay process the play was never reviewed. Ejections for targeting that are confirmed by replay are not reviewable after the game by the conference. But because this play was not reviewed in the game, the Pac-12 was allowed to look at the play and determined McCain should not have been ejected.

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The fishy thing is, they stopped the game to do an official review, and they said "after further review, the ruling on the field is confirmed." So it sounds like they lied because the replay equipment failed. And we lost our best pass rusher for most of the 4th Qtr. The game was tied 27-27 at that point.



It was a textbook tackle.

Officials are far too incompetent to be given the authority to eject a player for a hard tackle. It will definitely effect the outcome of a few games this year. Especially when a great defensive player gets ejected in the second half of a game and must sit half of next week's top 10 matchup.