2019 MVFC Season

[marenlee]

Holy shit UNI. Still alive on a crazy TD.


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[marenlee]

Maybe not. We’ll see


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[MNLonghorn10]

TD UNI!

holy shit this is a great game

[Hammersmith]

Holy shit UNI. Still alive on a crazy TD.


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Don't think it will hold up. But still a 1st down.

[MNLonghorn10]

LMAO

good lord this qb is slippery. scored a td

[bisonp]

LOL, that looked like Fran Tarkenton.

[Hammersmith]

ISU got so lucky there.

And ISU wins on the next play

29-26 ISU 3OT

[MNLonghorn10]

UNI almost had it..ISU fumbled the ball inside the 5 but QB recovered it.

ISU wins on the TD

[ByeSonBusiness]

That's a great question. Ineligible downfield player (IDP in official parlance) is one of the tougher calls to get especially with RPO. The challenge is you need knowledge of two different things (location of lineman and release of pass) at the same time in two different areas of the field. Each official is responsible for watching specific players on each play and nobody would ever have those two players at the same time.

The LOS officials have primary responsibility for this which is odd because they have responsibility for the line of scrimmage (i.e. pass caught behind/beyond, QB passing beyond LOS) but they aren't watching interior linemen unless they pull their way leading a sweep. The umpire is secondary and often the one who would catch this. As an umpire, I read run/pass just like a linebacker does (first step by lineman). An effective RPO is a run read because the linemen's first step is forward. In that case I stay put (pass read I move toward the LOS). Once I see any of the linemen at least 3 yards downfield (the line for IDP) I take a quick peak in the backfield to see if the QB still has the ball. If the ball is gone or he's in the process of throwing it, I let it go. If he still has it an eventually throws a pass first touched beyond the LOS, then I have a flag. If a lineman leaks out the backside I'm not going to be looking there and I would need the offside wing official to pick up that one. He may or may not see it based on where his keys take his attention.

Earlier in my college career I had plays where I see a pass and then I see a lineman 6-8 yards downfield and think I have an easy IDP. Then I see the film and stop it when the pass is released and the lineman is still within the 3 yards. Even those big guys can cover 3-5 yards pretty quickly. I was wrong enough I had to change my approach to make sure I was right because you don't want a cheap foul there.

So it's hard to get right consistently, but guys working in the B1G are going to be much better at it because they've had a lot more experience and have seen it a lot. But it's still tricky. If you go back to watch the plays stop the video the instance the ball leaves the QB's hand. You'll be surprised how often the linemen are still within 3 yards. It's not always easy but try to see which direction the U or H/L are looking (use the bill of their cap).

This sounds like a disaster. I do not envy you

[IndyBison]

This sounds like a disaster. I do not envy you

It's not terrible. Just not super easy. Like anything the more you do it the better you get. It's hard to be 100% right but if you are going to be wrong it's better to be wrong not calling it when it was there than calling it when it isn't there.

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