Hillard fumble for a first down

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Wing's been teaching him Ausie rules football and he forgot where he was and tried to pass the ball forward. No biggie. At least it wasn't recovered by the defense for a touchdown.

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I thought the rule was that if a player fumbled it and it went forwards out of bounds, then the ball goes back to where he fumbled it.

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I think he recovered it before it went out of bounds.

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Hillard

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H-I-L-L-I-A-R-D. Just like Uncle Dalton spells it.

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I think he recovered it before it went out of bounds.

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That was the call and it was upheld by replay. Dink and Dunk, errr Verne and Gary, were too worried about a forward pass. Idiots spent the entire replay timeout talking about the refs reviewing the lateral, but they were loooking to make sure he recovered in bounds. If not, it would have gone back to the spot of the fumble and would not have been a first down.

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I thought the rule was that if a player fumbled it and it went forwards out of bounds, then the ball goes back to where he fumbled it.

But I was glad to see I was wrong

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You're not wrong. Had Hillard not recovered the ball before it went out of bounds it would have gone back to the spot where he fumbled. No other LSU player could have recovered without the ball going back to the spot of the fumble.

I think that's why he fumbled, he saw nothing but endzone in front of him and started running before he caught the ball. He probably would have scored if he catches it cleanly.