re: Shaw's response to Sternberger fumble

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Welp. Now I know you are just here to argue for arguments sake.

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Because I showed that different scenarios call for different sets of rules?

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According to NCAA rules he made the catch.

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No.

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The play in question does not satisfy having possession long enough to make a move common to the game. Two steps is a measure that officials can use to determine that, as the video Dave posted says.

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How can two steps be used to measure time? A 6-3 TE running full speed takes to steps and it's a longer period of time than a CEH taking two steps.

The TE caught the ball and deliberately shifted it closer to his body in response to our defender. I saw a catch and run and a football move(the tuck to secure the ball better) and a turn upfield.

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No.

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Yes. He advanced the ball. Did he not move the ball from the original point of his hands touching the ball? Did he not bring the ball from his hand down towards his mid-section? This meets every point of the rule. I had an Aggie come up to me and say, "Man we got away with that one". You are just arguing to be a dick.

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I had an Aggie come up to me and say, "Man we got away with that one". You are just arguing to be a dick.

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And there are many LSU fans here that can accept the reality that it wasn't a catch. One Aggie placating you doesn't make them right.

right but it is not "the" rule.

I have already posted the rule for you, yet you keep insisting on him taking two steps.

he catches the ball and moves it from one side of his body to the other, TO AVOID IT BEING KNOCKED OUT OF HIS HANDS BY DELPIT.

its almost as if one could describe that act as one that is...

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common to the game.

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If they can say Kellen Mond had possession of the ball when he instantly touched it with one hand with his knee on the ground; then you have to be consistent and say that Sternberger had possession with both hands on the ball and turning up field.

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exactly, that was live ball

Time to let it go.
SEC will never admit fault or reverse calls.
We got jobbed that’s it, game over, we lost.
Life in the SEC for non Bama teams.

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One Aggie placating you doesn't make them right.

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I noticed that you did not address the fact that Sternberger advanced the ball from the point of where it contacts his hands and in the process moves it from his head area to his mid section.

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ARTICLE 3.
To catch a ball means that a player:
Secures control of a live ball in flight before the ball touches the ground, and
Touches the ground in bounds with any part of his body, and then
Maintains control of the ball long enough to enable him to perform an act common to the game, i.e., long enough to pitch or hand the ball, advance it, avoid or ward off an opponent, etc., and

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...an act common to the game like turning up-field to run? There's nothing in the rules about "two steps".

Furthermore, from the NCAA rule book...

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...If a player has control of the ball, a slight movement of the ball, even if it touches the ground, will not be considered loss of possession;

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