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

Mond’s knee being down was never up for debate. He never possess the ball with his knee down. He just has 3 fingers on the nose of the ball then his knee comes up and he picks up the ball.

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Advocate ref expert

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He doesn't work for the Advocate.

Terry McAulay is a former American football official in the National Football League since the 1998 NFL season, and Coordinator of Football Officials for the American Athletic Conference since 2008, when the conference was known as the Big East Conference.


Education: Louisiana State University


If anyone should have a bias, it's him since he attended LSU.

McAulay Bio

the only really bad call was the fumble at the end of the 4th.

Overall LSU was gifted alot a great spots and the refs swallowed their whistles most of the game when we held. That was pretty obvious.

With that said, that missed fumble call was HUGE and was a retarded call. No idea how they missed that.

So there wasn’t 9 guys lined up on the line of scrimmage?

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

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He never possess the ball with his knee down.

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You only have to touch it.

I think the worst call was stopping play for nothing on a play that we blew up in the back field

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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).

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According to his explanations, even if a penalty had been called on the alignment for the spike play with "1 second left" there would not have been a time runoff. I don't understand this. If that's truly the case, why not just send the fastest player to the line to spike it regardless of where everyone else is? Based on his explanation, you'd still get to run the next play after what would in essence be another clock stopage and a 5 yd penalty. What am I missing?

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too many men in backfield in that case. Has to be 7 on the line, only 4 in backfield.