re: Advocate ref expert says all calls were fine except pass int on Greedy!

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Mond was merely touching the ball when his knee was down. He never possessed it.

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There's two ways to look at this...

1. Just like on a forward pass he has to "establish possession" and he's not down.

2. Like on a fumbled pitch, possession is pre-established by the offense, the other team has NOT established possession (therefore the offense doesn't have to "re-establish"). Therefore the second he touches it, he possess it, and is thus down. Think touching the ball on punt, anyone touching it on the receiving team has established possession and it is then a live ball for recover. On a snap backwards (that's key: it is not forward) the same rule applies, touching is enough.

My problem is the lack of call by the on-field refs. If that's anything but a game ending INT then they get a pass on the play and at worst get to try again without losing yardage.

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Was it an illegal formation on the spike with 3 seconds left or not?

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I believe so. Were not set for 1 sec firstly. Too many men on LoS secondly. Note ref delayed standing over ball ONLY until other refs were in place. So ref didn't help TAMU out there. However, he was staring at side judge to get in place on the side with all 4 WRs, that is the exact ref who should have made that call and caused a 10sec runoff, ending game (a 3rd time).