Mississippi State Coach Joe Moorhead Comments On The Devin White Call From Last Week

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Do you have any thoughts about the targeting ejection call on Devin White this past weekend?

Moorhead: “I saw the play and that was the call that was made. It's a difficult situation because of the interpretation of the rule. You have the back-up in the replay to try to make it right.

“Any rule that's in place that helps facilitate player safety is one I'm in favor of. It's really not my position to judge the calls that were made in our game for or against us. Those are made by the referees and you've just got to deal with the call that was made.”

Does there need to be some sort of adjustment to what constitutes an ejection and what doesn't?

Moorhead: “They usually solicit the opinion of coaches like that and we provide our input and decisions are made. Those decisions are made to try to help prevent hits that put players in jeopardy from a health standpoint. It's hard to say if less ejections would lesson some of those hits. You'd have to look and see if the player ejections from a result of targeting calls are helping to bring the number of targets during the season down. To me, that's really where you have to make a decision there.”

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