re: LA Tech Safety Chad Boyd suspended

I'm not sure what to say when the SEC actually disciplines an official for screwing up a call

seems like a sign of the apocalypse... move inland bc there's a good chance of hurricanes and tsunamis over the next couple weeks

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Certainly one hopes that Miles complained to the league about the no call. One of his players could have been serioulsy hurt.
Did he go over the head of the SEC, directly to the NCAA?
If so,THAT is real news (and doesn't violate the ban on coaches complaining publically about SEC offciating).
Moreover, the NCAA decided to get involved...

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Miles included it with his tape he sent to the SEC. Redding asked Parry to take a look at it and see if he concured prior to contacting the WAC. Parry is the national coordinator and acts as a go between with the conferences.

62ZIP,
Thanks. I appreciate you explaining how the NCAA got involved, and that makes sense.At least the SEC took the complaint seriously, tho' they screwed up on he field...

If Chad Boyd is a "thug","piece of ----", etc. that he's been called in previous posts for making a split second decision, then using the same reasoning Lyle Hitt must be even worse. Yes, a penalty was called, but what type of player goes to the knees of a defenseless competitor from behind and 15 yards from the play?
Nuke

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If Chad Jones had made the same hit, we would all be saying "good, clean play".

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No. You don't remember people jumping on Laron? There are plenty of objective Tiger fans here.

There are actually some at Tech who understand the rule and have no problem with it's application, even belatedly, to their players.
It's astonishing...

TechisBetter,
Let's review your positions:
The WAC Commish is "spineless"
Miles is a "Titty Baby"
I wear "purple panties"
Redding is wrong
the WAC supervisor of officials is wrong;
The NCAA is wrong.
Ergo: Boyd made a great, clean hit.
Seems to me there were moral victories and great play all over the field to be found for Tech that nite.
Boyd's flagrant foul, cheap shot was not among them.
Your efforts to lionize Boyd cheapens the efforts of other, more deserving Tech players that nite.
Shouldn't you get along to school now?

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The WAC Commish is "spineless"
Miles is a "Titty Baby"
I wear "purple panties"
Redding is wrong
the WAC supervisor of officials is wrong;
The NCAA is wrong.
Ergo: Boyd made a great, clean hit.
Seems to me there were moral victories and great play all over the field to be found for Tech that nite.
Boyd's flagrant foul, cheap shot was not among them.
Your efforts to lionize Boyd cheapens the efforts of other, more deserving Tech players that nite.
Shouldn't you get along to school now?

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(1) The WAC commish is spineless. This has been the case long before he suspended Boyd. His ineffective leadership of the WAC produced the Mountain West and CUSA-West. The emails that he has sent to LaTech fans have been completely unprofessional. He has always waited for people to tell him what to do and has never done anything proactively. He should have been fired long ago, and that has nothing to with Boyd.

(2) The rest - If you judge the replay on initial impressions, it is easy to see how you may first conclude that Boyd initiated contact with his helmet. If you frame-by-frame the hit, however, (and I doubt Redding, Parry, Blackwood or Benson even bothered to do this), you can clearly tell that Boyd came into the tackle arms out into the chest of Toliver. That is technically not a violation of the rule. The two SEC officials that were right there must have agreed, and we are left with two replay angles that are shot from anglest that will produce a perspective bias (making it harder to judge distances between objects that are closer to the camera from those that are further from the camera). At the end of the day, the officials on the field have the best view. How could something that they think wasn't even a foul now be found to be flagrant???

Here is what happened: Legal hit was made on the field. It was close, they could have thrown a flag. Miles, being a titty baby, and probably hearing complaints from his fans, decided to submit the thing for review. Redding watches the low-definition replay once or twice and sees Boyd launch, make contact with another player's helmet and leave the player lying on the ground for a minute or so. He thinks to himself, this is the type of penalty I wrote that rule to protect against (i.e., does not even look at the rule and analyze whether contact was initiated below the shoulders first; certainly doesn't frame-by-frame the hit). He calls Parry and Blackwood (in some order); they conference call, and he tells Parry and Blackwood what he thinks. They look at the play without analyzing frame-by-frame and agree. Blackwood tells Benson what happens, and Benson - wanting to protect Boise State first and foremost (and having a history of treating Tech has a second-class member of the league) - goes along with the recommendation so he doesn't have to take any political heat.

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Here is what happened: Legal hit was made on the field. It was close, they could have thrown a flag. Miles, being a titty baby, and probably hearing complaints from his fans, decided to submit the thing for review. Redding watches the low-definition replay once or twice and sees Boyd launch, make contact with another player's helmet and leave the player lying on the ground for a minute or so. He thinks to himself, this is the type of penalty I wrote that rule to protect against (i.e., does not even look at the rule and analyze whether contact was initiated below the shoulders first; certainly doesn't frame-by-frame the hit). He calls Parry and Blackwood (in some order); they conference call, and he tells Parry and Blackwood what he thinks. They look at the play without analyzing frame-by-frame and agree. Blackwood tells Benson what happens, and Benson - wanting to protect Boise State first and foremost (and having a history of treating Tech has a second-class member of the league) - goes along with the recommendation so he doesn't have to take any political heat.

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That is a shitload of assumptions.