re: Trindon's "fair catch" at the end of the first half

Actually, it's a poorly written rule, and this is not the kind of thing the rule was supposed to preculde. It was supposed to enforce the fair catch in the UConn scenario, when a player sort half asses a fair catch signal but it confuses the coverage team enough that it should be ebforced out of fairness. In effect, what the Ole Miss player did.

Waving your arms in the incomplete signal does not confuse the return team in the same way. There is no way to misinterpret that as a fair catch. As the way the rule is written, it is a penalty. However, this is NOT the intent of the rule and Holliday's motion is not the sort of thing they were trying to legislate against.

Not a "bad" rule, just one that is written badly.