Miami - ND game...Catch or no catch?

I mentioned this in the SEC Thread:

1. I hate Notre Dame
2. You've got to watch it in real time, not just slow motion
3. He didn't "complete" the catch. He didn't maintain possession. This isn't like a QB diving to touch pylon in the corner of the endzone or that move Drew Brees was emphasis for (jumping over the center and holding the ball out over the goal line and then bring it back). You've got to complete the catch. He didn't. It was the correct call.

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3. Maintains control of the ball long enough to enable that player 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

4. Satisfies paragraphs b, c, and d below.

c. If the player loses control of the ball while simultaneously touching the ground with any part of their body, or if there is doubt that the acts were simultaneous, it is not a catch.

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The ball wasn't secure before the ND player knocked it out. Honestly, that's probably the only reason the player was even able to break up the pass. Had Lofton secured it, I don't think the ND player would have even been able to knock it out.

If you stop it immediately at the 00:06 mark (watch Lofton's right hand) and immediately at the 00:08 mark (now, notice Lofton's left hand), you can plainly see he didn't have control/

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The ball wasn't secure before the ND player knocked it out. Honestly, that's probably the only reason the player was even able to break up the pass. Had Lofton secured it, I don't think the ND player would have even been able to knock it out.

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Correct - there was a bit of a bobble before Talich even knocked it out.

Only Mario Cristobal and Michael Irvin’s coked up arse seem to think it was a catch.

Slowing it down distorts the reality of the play

Definitely not a catch

From that replay it looks like a catch.